Review: A not very good start to a good collection
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2013
This book started very slowly for me, yet having some enticing elements here and there. It was difficult to keep reading and, to be frank, I only persist because the book was a friend's recommendation and I promised myself that I would at least read half the book before quitting.Half the book gone and I was still trying to convince myself to keep reading - boring is not exactly the word here, but most of the book was kind of uneventful. A romantic tension between two characters permeated all the plot, almost always in a very repetitive and predictable way.The ending of the story reminded me of some martial arts movies, where the a person is attacked by a mob, one at a time. And the fate of a very old character was not something I would logically expect, her actions were not akin to her experience. The climax of the story, albeit not totally unbelievable, somewhat disregard logic and common sense - I cannot detail it anymore without spoiling the plot. And there is a secondary character that simply vanished from the storyline without any follow-up.The good things:- albeit monotonous and repetitive till near the end of the book, when things start to come to a conclusion the reading pace accelerates and the plot was suficient for instill myself a desire to read the sequel (and I devoured it in less than 8 hours).- the main characters are well built- the author world building skills are very good- the setting (Fae Mythology) is well used, with some innovations I hadn't see before- the last 30% of the book more than compensate the first tedious 70% - and I fully recognize that my dislike of it could be caused by my own preferences, having no fault in the author's part.Bottom-line: albeit I found that the story took a long time to become attractive, when it began to pacing faster I was enthralled, and I am now almost finishing the third book of the series, only a day after finishing the first one.