Review: Juvenile Adult
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
One thing that I've never figured out about self-published so-called Young Adult is why so many of them have to be so . . . stupid.  It's quite possible to do solid YA while maintaining literary merit.  J.K. Rowling did it, Susan Cooper did it, Rick Riordan does it - all of these are solid books, well-written, with good plots and good characters, and nothing to make you cringe.This is not a solid book.  The main character is an immature moron and a complete Larry Sue.  Shiva is two-dimensional, neither of which are interesting.  For someone who is supposedly a charismatic anti-hero, Aura is lame and overly sentimental.  The whole Satan family?  Different, yes.  Different in an intriguing way?  No.I'm always interested in a new take on Hell . . . but this wasn't compelling at all.The plot is hackneyed - not that I really have anything against that, so long as it's done well, but it's not.Not recommended.