Review: too light for me to really enjoy
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
From This Day Forward. Mackenzie LucasReview from Jeannie Zelos Book reviews.I love fantasy/paranormal romance, and the premise of this book intrigued me, dragon shifters have athe potential for so much fun and action. Its only 127 pages long though, and I found that too short to really explore the characters and plots unleashed in this novel. Its the beginning to a new series, and I often find the first book has a really difficult job of introducing characters and places, along with a decent plot, and for me it needed more detail to work.I found the characters reasonably likeable, but just didn't get to know them in enough depth to really empathise with their dilemmas. Noah, good guy but I didn't understand why – as a powerful dragon – he was taken by surprise by a small lady, even if she was magickal.  April, nice woman, loves her family but avoids the magickal side, and given her husband is a shifter I didn't really find the “abandonment” issue sufficient reasoning.The plot as a whole seemed to me very simplistic, I’d guessed much of it early on, and it seemed to me that almost as soon as something happened, it was over. No drawn out drama, no stretched thin emotions, just problem-action-solution-finish. Maybe that's because of the length restraints, but it led to a novel that I’d hoped would be good, but that was just too easy and simplistic for me. Still, as ever that's what lots of readers want, an easy to follow bit of escapism, and just because I need more doesn't mean everyone does thankfully :) its what gives us such a wide range of novels. This is well written, with credible plots and characters, its a personal taste issue that has me not liking it, not something wrong with the book itself. Its priced at 1.86 for 127 pages, and the ending makes it clear there's more to come and lays out the pathways for the next books.Stars: Two and a half, touching on a three.ARC supplied by Netgalley.