Review: Went downhill fast
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
I enjoyed this book enough to read it to the end, but just barely. The writing wasn't horrible, although some of the dialogue was--especially when it involved the villain of the story (Why can't anyone write a good villain? Their thoughts and dialogue are always ridiculous).The plot was rambling and the storyline thin and, therefore, padded out with goofiness. The hero was kind of a dope, and the heroine was even dopier. And what was going on with Brattondale? Was he just pretending to be sick most of the time or not? Really weird plotline there.There were quite a few wrong words--loose for lose, road for rode, etc. that any editor (or reasonable literary person) should have caught.There were also a lot of confusing references to earlier books in the series. It's a simple matter to fill in the reader to prior happenings that are important to the story with a paragraph or two. There's no excuse for leaving people confused just because that haven't read the earlier books.Another of my pet peeves is a bouncing POV, which this author employed quite liberally. Please, keep to one person's perspective until you clearly shift to another person's perspective.And last, but certainly not least, the romance was flat. Just very few sparks here.If we could employ half stars, I'd probably give this 2 1/2.