Review: Could have been a good beginning...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2013
Things I Liked:- I think the title was probably the best thing about this novella. Love it!- There was defiantly potential for a good story, had this been a novel and not a novella.- Dragon shifters. Nuff said.Things I Wasn't As Crazy About:Most of my gripes were caused by the short format I think. Like:- While the actual plot itself had potential, it never really went anywhere. Like Cora's big problem which was dealt with in a rather vague way at the end. Stig's group ended up <spoiler>suggesting that it was time to totally change their rules all of a sudden... to better accommodate Stig and Cora I suppose.</spoiler>- There weren't enough details about other plot points like the Knights, or Stigs time in the Marines. That lack of details meant that I didn't care when <spoiler>the Knights showed up</spoiler> or when they talk about Stig's friendship with Cora's brother.- Not enough on the Dragon lore. We're just told he's a dragon. There are some in this organization. They are old and immortal.<spoiler> For some reason when Cora touches Stig in dragon form, he changes, but that's never explained either.</spoiler>.The end.- Also, you would think that there would be some time spent describing how Stig looked as a dragon, but I never got a clear picture in my head. I could never even really tell how big he was, cause from the descriptions of his interactions with Cora, he sounded like a man sized dragon, which might be the case, but I felt fuzzy on those details.Overall, I just wish the author had either a) spent more time out of the bedroom to make room for the more plot-based details or b) had written a longer book so we would have a happy blend of both.ARC courtesy of Forever(Grand Central Publishing), via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.