Review: Plot is too drawn-out, but I'd recommend it
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2012
This book is not what you would consider a normal suspense. Really, it's a love story. No murder mystery, no thriller, nothing like that. What you have is a story a lot like a Greek play. Whether it is a comedy or tragedy has yet to be determined as this is the first book of, I believe, three. Like Oedipus, we, the readers, know most everything. The characters don't. And like Oedipus, if the chracters had the correct information, most of the bad stuff in the book would not have happened. Though the plot wouldn't be considered slow, I think the main reason I gave this book 3 stars is because if she had known "this" and he had known "that," they would have been able to live happily ever after by the end of the first chapter. Drawing out this ending to more than one book seems a little too much for me. I'd recommed it though, as the prose is beautifully written and anyone who has studied classic literature can appreciate the various themes Tyrpak has taken from Greek plays and even Shakespeare and written a book in modern prose. (Modern PROSE, not modern setting).