Review: Needs a Major Overhaul
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
I am so glad this book was free. I can't even begin to describe everything I found wrong with it. I will say that it COULD be a good book. The plot is interesting, but the author ruins it by thinking her readers have the I.Q's of mushrooms and can't use their imaginations, so she tells us EVERY little detail.The main character, Dayton, drove me insane. Even before I got 25% into the book, I was hoping someone would kill her off. She is too dramatic, even for a teenager. I wish I had a dollar for every question she asked in the book. She questions either another character or herself almost every paragraph. The internal dialog was enough to make me want to jump off a bridge. The fact that she hates someone one second, can't figure out her feelings for the person the next, and then loves them after that (repeat again and again), is tedious. This book was mostly the same information over and over with slight variations.I knew when Marcas stepped onto the scene that he would be in love with Dayton and trying to fight his feelings and she, like almost every other YA book, would fall in love with him. Blah, blah, blah...If I cannot connect with any characters in a book - if I can't feel as if I know them or have feelings for them of some sort, then the book is not worth it. Frankly, I would not have minded if every character died in an explosion or something. In my opinion, the gargoyle and Wiccan were the only ones with any redeeming qualities and I still couldn't connect with them.In short, I would not recommend this book to anyone and the author needs to learn to WRITE before publishing...oh, and hire an editor who knows what they are doing.