Review: Repitition loses a star
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
Perhaps its because I read all the Academy books right in a row over a weeks time period, but some of the character quirks have become peeves due to their repetition.  The finger to the lip thing, the bones rattling thing, etc. The nightmare sequences that never seem to do anything or have any real ties to the story.  I thought that with some of the descriptions of the boys and with the nightmare sequences, we would start seeing paranormal elements creeping in.  That hasn't happened. Not that that's a bad thing, its just that the nightmares keep seeming to point to something, and then never do, its a tease. Hopefully, for the author, its a tease like Sang's, that doesn't realize that she's doing it.Sang has made some changes to be more social and come out of her shell, but in some ways I feel like it might be a little too fast. There are a few continuity errors creeping in, things I wouldn't believe Sang doing, but I am an adult reader, and so a teen might not notice the same problems.