Review: Shrug. It was alright.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
I found this to be an "ok" meandering story - never felt like I should put it down and move on to something else, but also never felt like stopping anything else I was doing to pick it up and continue reading.WHAT I LIKED-----------------* Elf in the City: The author did an excellent job getting me to *feel* the displacement the female lead feels. This aspect of the book was by far my favorite. It can be hard to see the world you live in every day as if you were a COMPLETE outsider, but Drummond pulled it off admirably.WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE--------------------* The story dragged for me. I'm not a fan of having main characters (esp if they are love interests) separated for large parts of the book. I'm not a fan of reading lots of information about traveling, if the true action really only happens at the destinations. I'm not a fan of having one character be a tool for asking questions while the other character is a replacement for an encyclopedia. All of things together can really slow a book down, and I felt like that was my experience with Blood Faerie.* While the female lead's character was deftly developed, the male lead's character felt shallow to me. I couldn't believe it when he decided he was in love with the female lead. He'd known her for a handful of days, hadn't seen her in over a week, and binds his life to her in a decision of less than 5m. I'm always willing to throw some disbelief out the window when reading, especially in this genre, but I couldn't do it with this love relationship. :/I wouldn't really recommend this one to any friends I know who read this genre. There are just plenty of more interesting reads in this genre.