Review: 3.8 Stars for Dryad's Kiss
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 15, 2012
This story is a complicated mix of Native American shamanism, Celtic fiction, and your basic high school geek suffering through high school. It's odd, but over all, it works ok. I think it could have been more intriguing and less complicated, but there's nothing really wrong with being complicated. Some of the complications made the tale more realistic than it otherwise might have been.Finn is a well-developed character, as are most of the people he interacts with. This book is chock full of action on various fronts; the dream sequences are plentiful, which leads to the reader's pity for Finn's confusion. I think Finn's teen geek life is mostly spot-on in realism, and it was easy to empathize with him on several levels. I liked his attitude and the way he interacts with (most of) his friends.Not as well developed is where the evil plotline is headed. I don't want to post any spoilers, but it seems to me that the Dryad storyline fought the Shamanistic demon-fighting and won out. However, as this is clearly one of a series of books, that can easily be balanced down the road.I'm curious as to what Finn's birth parents' story has to do with Finn's problems in this book. It was not fully explained in this installment, but clearly there is a big deal going on, if one can get to the bottom of it. It would be interesting to see where that goes, and whether it becomes an overreaching storyline that encompasses both the Dryad plotline as well as the Shamanistic demon-battling one.Judging by how this story ended, I'm also curious as to how much the cast of characters might change by the next book. There's many directions this series could go; I'm just hoping it's somewhere good.~Katherine X, Kindle Book Review**The KBR received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. We are not connected with the author or publisher in any way, nor are we otherwise compensated for this service by Amazon or any other party.**