Review: Look at a map!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2013
This was a very good first novel. I enjoyed the story, I likes the way it was told in first person, Lilianne was a fun heroine and grew in strength as the story progressed. The author did a good job of character development on most of the other characters as well. I agree Lili seemed to be immature to be as old as she really was, but since she isolated herself from humans so much I can accept that part of her personality.I enjoyed the idea of sin collectors, a new concept to me, as I like books that are any type of paranormal mystery. I can see where this might be a good first book leading to a series.However: (Spoiler alert) you cannot travel by yacht to Madrid. I was engrossed in the book up to the yacht traveling to Madrid, it would have been a good idea to flesh out that area of the book then with development of other characters. The author had them travel four days. Having not traveled by yacht I am not sure how long it takes to get from Ireland to Spain. At least Dublin is a port city. Madrid is in the middle of Spain. There are no major waterways you can take to get there. You would have to stop at a Spanish port or Lisbon and fly, drive or take the train to get there. That should have been addressed.One reason I ordered the book was the mention of Madrid in some reviews. Having spent six weeks there last year I wanted to revisit the city through the book. Lavapies is a great neighborhood to have the final meeting with "the bad guys" but more fleshing out of getting there and walking into the building would have been helpful.The book was good, interesting first try, it could have been much better with some more elaboration.