Review: Interesting New Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
This was a highly addictive story that took me into a brand new world of immortals called the Arash.  While the beginning was a little confusing and slow, once I hit the halfway mark, I couldn't put the book down!  I'm eager to see where this story goes in the next books.The story revolves around Livia, who is a misfit going through a breakup.  She is dragged into the world of the Arash by meeting some criteria for becoming one of them.  There's a lot of drama revolving around exactly how she "fits" with them, but, needless to say, that starts off a bigger chain of events.  At first I was really rooting for the realness of Livia's character, but as the book went on, I started to hate her.  The choices she makes are mind-bogglingly bad.  Not just normal bad, but mess up your life bad.  That was just one of a few things that irked me about this book.Going back to the beginning of the book, I had a really hard time following the story because of all the POV shifting.  I found myself re-reading sections to try to figure out who is talking, who is thinking, and who is actually doing specific things.  Once I got the hang of that (sort of), I was a little bit confused about the story.  One minute we're depressed, the next minute we're happy, then we're in love really quickly, then we rebound in the most horrible way, then we learn that everyone is sleeping with her mom?  So confused.Obviously I wasn't confused or upset enough by this book to put it down, though.  The story is engaging and dragged me through Livia's bad choices all the way to the end.  I wish there was more character development, even just in the form of Cassius.  We are so rapidly thrown into this group that it could have really used just a few more chapters of character development to explain away some of the actions and choices.