Review: Great story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 13, 2014
I'm not sure how to write this review without accidentally giving away spoilers, but I'll do my best to get the feeling across without giving too much away.I really enjoyed "Tempest". I enjoy the way the author brings the reader into the story and takes us to a place that can only exist in imagination. That being said, I felt as if there were certain events that happened because the author perhaps changed their mind about the direction they wanted this book to go, and there was a lot of build-up in the first book that ended too abruptly in the second, leaving me unsatisfied.As a rule, I try not to let grammar influence my review of a book overly much, and instead focus on how I felt about the book itself. That being said, there was at least one entire paragraph where the use of the word "I" as opposed to "me" was was used incorrectly so many times that it was off putting, and even if it had been used correctly, would've  still been entirely overused. This mistake happened many times, but it was only that one paragraph that has me including it in my review and only because because I feel it was a terribly redundant use of the phrase, correctly used our not.I realize my thoughts so far have not been very praising, but don't let those things decide for you not to read this book. This book, much like the first, is impossible to stop reading one you start, from beginning to end. I'm not of the same frame of mind as other reviewers seem to be that when something happens to a favorite character that you didn't want to happen, that's cause to stop reading. I think those readers must have been expecting a different genre and realized they were mistaken after certain events. There is a love story inside, but this is by no means a romance.After noticing the third book in this series only had 168 pages, I can't help but wonder if these three books would've been better as one very large novel. I don't think it would've helped with the loss some people felt, but I also don't think it would've seemed so abrupt as it is by talking place early into the second book.Now, I'll be starting the third. This review may seem completely negative, but my feeling about the book is anything but. I love this story! I wish it was possible to rate it 4 1/2 stars.