Review: Undemanding fluff
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2012
First, be aware that this is a short book.  It is about as long as a paperback Western.  Unfortunately, it is about as original as a paperback Western, and I like Westerns.I just could not get with the characters.  Lissa has her parents murdered.  She is miraculously rescued from jumping off a cliff and told that she is important to saving the world.  Her reaction - virtually nothing.  Are there any signs of her being affected by her parent's death, obviously not.  Similarly, another character finds out that her father has been implicit in several people's death.  Any effect on her, No.  Another character has his girlfriend's (well, he liked her anyway) throat cut by the bad guy.  What happens - he ends up working for the bad guy.  Really?  Nothing in what happened in the book really had any affect on the characters.  They are like cardboard cutouts.  Therefore, nothing had any affect on the reader.The other thing that I did not like was when Lissa wanted to kiss her sensei.  He refused, because he had to be focussed on the mission and personal feelings could jeopardise the successful outcome of that mission.  Come on, if characters have feelings for someone, those feelings exist whether they kiss, dance the mattress tango or not.  Furthermore, I suspect that only Americans could find some dilemma in whether to save the world from utmost evil and doom the girl or save the girl and doom the world.  For me anyway, the answer is a no brainer - go the World.In my enthusiasm at getting my kindle, I think that I bought the next two books.  I will probably read them, but I am not in a hurry to do so.