Review: Promising beginning
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 23, 2013
This could have been rated 3+ or 4-...I went with 4- because the overall concept is a good one, and I liked the exposure to supernatural beings that I've not met before (a.k.a Imagos). Also, I was curious what would happen in the end, and there was a little twist I wasn't expecting. You all know how I love me some twists!I have to tell you, the prologue (written in a different time period than the present-time main story) and Lucer's POV had a great voice and flavor that was lost in the present-time writing style. I wished the whole story could have been written in this same tone.Okay, so the characters. Zahara and Becca are good characters; not the perfect children by any means, which I find realistic and endearing. They don't do everything they're told, and they act like typical teen-agers do, especially when there are hotties involved and houses to sneak out of. :)I was beginning to think Becca lived with Zahara...and then suddenly her parents popped into the action near the middle. That transition was a little abrupt for me.I liked Bryan immensely. And I also liked Rekesh. I think he's a bad-ass that's often misunderstood, but he's clearly like-able and I don't think he's as bad as he pretends to be! I could see a whole story around this guy, and it's one I would read (hint, hint).The writing style stalled for me on occasion. What I didn't like was the over-use of exclamation points, the detailed description of clothes every time a character walked into the room (or so it seemed)...I think every character had at least 6 pairs of shoes (or so it seemed). The dialogue didn't always sound realistic (what teenager refers to teenagers as 'youths'??), and peppered with banal conversation a few times.I'm not sure the omniscient POV worked for this story...I think I would have liked to learn things as Zahara learned them. The twists in the story would have been twistier, because as a reader you wouldn't see things coming...but being privy to other characters' thoughts and actions, the surprises weren't surprising. The only time this worked was the end twist. I'm sure glad I was privy to the action there at the end! It's a great set-up to the next book...perfect cliff-hanger.