Review: Good storyline, mixed structure
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2011
There are a number of things I like about this book, and some things I don't like at all. The story revolves around four girls who are very good friends with unusual hobbies. One evening they agree to let one of them cast a spell to find their soul mates and end up waking in another world. I like the world that the author built and the characterization of the girls quite a lot. The world includes griffins, which I like, but they remind me a bit too much of Anne McCaffrey's dragons. While the storyline is very entertaining, the author bounces from 1st person POV between multiple characters worse than a pinball. This interrupts the flow of the story quite a bit and makes it difficult to read, particularly in the first part of the book. If I hadn't been enjoying the plot, I probably would have put it down in the first half, it was that distracting. Improperly placed commas and apostrophes were also a problem. But as I read through the rough beginning, either it settled down a bit or I got used to the style. The ending was a real cliffhanger and I'm interested enough in the characters that I'll probably pick up the next book in the trilogy, but I won't seek it out.