Review: The Keepers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
*I was given a copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review*I loved the concept of this book.  Travel by crystal, a buried city, ancient races of magical people... it's all very intriguing.Ava is a young girl fresh out of high school who is unsure of what she wants to do with her life.  So she stays home and works at a grocery story.  While this is classified as a NA novel, I think I might put it more into the YA category.  At first, I have to admit that I wasn't too keen on Ava.  She was whiny and scared of her own shadow.  I kept waiting for some sort of explanation about a possible tragic event that would cause her to be so skiddish, but that's just her personality.  By the end of the novel I had warmed up to her though.  This novel is very wordy and carries a lot of (sort of) unnecessary explanation.  There were times I felt like we were just being information dumped on, but none of the important questions were being answered.  Perhaps in subsequent books all that information will be handy.  A lot of time we spent on her father and step mother, but they really didn't play a large role in the book.I know this is part of a series and I am actually excited to read the series to get some answers!  I also hope that we get some backstory on some of the other Keepers in the rest of the books.  I really liked learning about the different magical races.Overall I did like this book and can't wait to read the rest of them.