Review: Awkward, and rather Juvenile
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 6, 2013
And yes, I realize that it is supposed to be a YA book.  This is way too elementary for most teens, however.  So maybe younger?  Well, it does have a bad word or two, but the main reason it wouldn't be appropriate for the pre-teen reader is because of the frequent rough and abusive incidents between the main characters.  If it wasn't for that,  I'd say that the immature romances were indications that the 18 year old girls and hundred year old 'boys'  were actually grammar school aged kids in the throes of puberty.It's not that I don't enjoy juvenile.  I did, after all, enjoy the Twilight and Harry Potter series.I won't bother going into the plot (which was actually rather good), because so many other reviewers already have done so.  I liked the storyline, and the action was good.  The writing style of jumping between the two main characters didn't work well for me, simply because it wasted a lot of print by repeating the same scene over again from only a slightly different perspective.Even with all the issues mentioned above, I did kind of like the  writer's ideas.  I also think that the author showed real promise now and then throughout the book;  for instance when the group met a Dryad and her Oak tree.  That chapter was well written, and as I read it I felt emotionally connected.Will I read the next book in this Trilogy?  Maybe, although I resent that this one ended so abruptly with a cliffhanger.....