Review: Interesting, slow to start
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2013
3.5 stars rounded up to 4I wish I'd known this was part of a series before I decided to review. The first few chapters seemed to spend an awful lot of time going over what had happened before and left me feeling a bit lost. Despite recapping previous events, they weren't very detailed, but there were a lot of them and I really struggled to keep on reading, wondering where on Earth this book was going to take me.Not Earth, as it turns out, at least not the one we know, but parallel dimensions. Once Caitlin stepped through the portal to the other world, that's when the book and story really took off for me. It's just a pity it took seven or eight chapters to get there!Caitlin (both incarnations of her) are a well-rounded character, easy to relate to, even though she does deal with things that are not the norm - Incubi, witches, demons, vampires, werewolves and others. There are some funny moments in the book, which helps counteract the tension as they search for the soul-stealing demon. The book was in first person from Caitlin's point of view and while not my favourite, it worked quite well here so that the reader finds out things at the same time as Caitlin does.The author weaves different genres into one here quite effortlessly, so in the end you're not sure whether you've been reading urban fantasy, sci-fi or thriller. It keeps you guessing until the end, but I think the book would have been much better if Caitlin got through that portal a lot quicker, too much rambling and meandering at the beginning for me.I received a copy of this book from Reading Addiction Blog Tours in return for an honest review.