Review: Falls Flat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
There were times I wasn't sure why I kept reading this book. There was a lot of suspension of disbelief needed, yes, I know it was supposed to be fantasy, but after a point it just got really hard to do.Evie was almost thirty and a virgin. I know it's possible, but she was supposed to be beautiful. So, every man she'd gone out with or encountered treated her terrible? This was just a bit hard to believe.There was of course the "insta-love." Oh, and the person determined to get Aulis as her own even though he'd turned her down for centuries. Then another person determined to get Evie from Aulis. It felt so cliche.The fairies used phrases like "oh, hell no" "good lord" and other modern phrases, but the one that made Evie giggle over it being modern was "if the shoe fits"? Was she not listening to the others?The formatting was odd, the grammar at times was off, and in a couple of places the narrative switched between first and third person. It needed a very good editor.Evie did not sound like an almost thirty year old woman. There were times she came off overly innocent, like she'd been sheltered all her life, to a sarcastic teenager. She's still being told what to do by her mother. "Be on your best behavior." It was crazy.I feel like there were a lot of good ideas in this book, but it was all very rushed. It was like Evie met the fairies and everything was put on extreme fast forward. Had it been slowed down and some of the ideas taken out, it could have been a better story.