Review: Not even good YA/Pre-teen
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
The story is not bad but the writing, most often is. I do not know this author but she/he clearly borrowed from Sir Terry Pratchet. 1) The girl Jade saying that she should be magical as the 7th daugter of a 7th son. 2) A girl and a boy gets trapped in a computer game. All from well known Pratchet books.This makes it clear that the ideas and story line is nothing new and has been explored by many other authors, all much better than this. Even kids movies such as Shark boy and Lava girl where the fate of the real world depend on the boy and girl completing the quest used this idea long before the author.Writing style is very under developed and often weak. There were tons of words missing, which left sentences incomplete.I hated the ending and will not spend time on the rest in the series.I think it might even be a weak and disappointing read for many Y A and pre-teens.One reviewer gave it 4* saying there was no sex and bad language. Although this is true, the fact remains that there are1000`s of books out there that are truly WORTH buying and WORTH reading that don`t have sex and bad language.Go look for the following if you want quality story telling that includes characters worth knowing, both magical and human:Terry Pratchet, Isaac Asimov, Rick Riordan, Arthur Clark, Mark Walden and there are hundreds more that I can list that both YA and Adults will enjoy.Some of the 4/5* reviews are also rather suspect in that it reads way too much like the editorial review, seeming to havebeen written by the author, rather than a stranger whose read the book for the first time."Spoilers" following:The Druids betraying the group was so out of character and was very weakly explained later as " they thought the group were just criminals"!! .....andThe arch nemesis knowing their every move and Marcus "finally" remembers the enemy can far see those that he has met???!!Just too weak to be satisfying. Marcus is after all the one person who knows him best and he is a trained soldier AND he knew from the start his presence will put them all at risk yet he "forgets" this vital information till nearly the end?2* for a good concept. Pitty it wasn't executed better.