Review: Awesome Novella by Samantha Young!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2013
This was a great, quick read from one of my favorite author's, Samantha Young. I am actually quite surprised at the lower rating this novella has received here on Goodreads because this was a fantastic story. Ms. Young has created a unique, exciting world of Death that could have easily been expanded into a regular length book (and a potential series). Because I knew this was a novella, going into reading the story I expected things to happen fast, certain things wouldn't actually be explained, and events are mentioned in passing. In this way, I can understand why a reader might not like the story. Things aren't really developed, and because of that, interest might go down, or the story might read as poorly written. However, a novella isn't supposed to be a full length novel with everything explained and written out. In my experience, a novella is a kind of "go-with-the-flow" type of book. The reader has to take the story as it is, and not expect every single detail to be fleshed out.Since that's how I went into this novella, I really enjoyed the plot and characters. I was happy to see that everything worked out in the end, and there is no cliffhanger. I wanted to check out the next in the series, however I do believe it's only available in Phantasmagoria and Other Stories, which isn't released until next year :( Hopefully, it'll come out sooner because I can't wait to see what happens next!