Review: DISAPPOINTED
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2013
There’s truthfully nothing more I can add to what other reviewers have already said. Just go and read their one-star and two-star reviews for this book and you’ll know exactly what I thought of it. It was everything that I’m so tired of seeing in YA paranormal romance. There is the overdone love triangle, the insta love, the helpless little perfect blonde protagonist with her bratty, self-indulgent, petty behavior, and the new town she and her family moves to closely resembling Twilight’s Forks. Skyla can run really fast and she’s super strong and she and Logan can read each other’s minds – anyone thinking Twilight? Yet, at the first sign of danger she turns into this whimpering little nitwit. Truth be told, I have more bad things to say about this formulaic story with its predictable barely-there plot, than good things. The one thing I DID enjoy were the mean girls being horrible to Skyla, and for some perverse reason I enjoyed those scenes more than Skyla and Logan’s incessant kissing. Half of this book details every moment and every location possible Skyla and Logan finds to make-out, instead of moving the plot forward. And don’t even get me started on the time-travel aspect of the story. Skyla didn’t even know she could time travel, but guess what? Next day she’s time travelling by falling asleep in a hidey-hole at the top of her closet! For crying out loud people, as if the choppy writing and plot holes and sudden jumps in scenes weren’t bad enough, logic gets kicked out of the window as well. The only other good thing I can say about Moore is that she actually writes quite well. Will I read more of her books? Yes! As long as it’s not romance or anything paranormal. Will I continue with this series? Heck no! I’m sure a lot of readers will find this book entertaining; it just wasn’t for me. It consisted of everything I’m so tired of reading in YA fiction, and it most certainly doesn’t offer anything new. I’m disappointed that it didn’t live up to the fantastic read I was hoping it would be.