Review: Fell Short Of Expectations
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
The synopsis of this story drew me in and I was eagerly looking forward to getting absorbed in an interesting read. However, the execution was so mediocre that any potential sparks were lost very early on. My main complaint is the flow and mechanics of the story. Tenses, pronouns, and even names(!) are constantly confused, so that you always have to think twice about who is speaking during the dialogue sections. This alone is enough to remove the reader from the experience. But then, to make matters worse, the characters had zero depth. With very little back-story and no distinguishing characteristics, they all felt like shallow paper dolls. I have the second book in this series already but I have no plans to read it. The writing style is simply not engaging at all and the mistakes detract a great deal from the book. With nothing to draw you in and plenty of mechanical errors that any editor would have caught immediately, it makes me feel like the author either didn't take the necessary time/effort to put forth quality work or simply doesn't know any better. Either way, it makes the entire thing a waste of my precious time and I cannot with a clear conscience suggest that anyone else do the same. Not recommended.