Review: unbelieveable but enjoyable read
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2012
Okay, so I have been reading a lot of KA stuff and liked most of them well enough to try this one. After all, it's a pretty good price, the blurb sounds interesting enough, and who doesn't like some oriental fairytale in modern day settings... Turns out it was too cliché for my tastes. The characteres were quite onedimensional, set in their ways and just too over the top. Take Lily: so she wasn't that pretty in her teenage years. What else is new. But she just goes through life as this naive, I-love-only-once girl who thinks she's ugly while everybody else is aparrently totally enarmoured by her looks. Doesn't she have a mirror? And she just suffers through most of the book, and I do get that she is loveable and loving, but there really was no need to make her into a very passive saint.Or Nathaniel: Enter the tortured dark prince. Him, I get a little bit better, especially his feelings of inadequacy. But his decisions are just so extreme that I don't think them realistic for any sane person.however, this book is not without its perks and fun moments. It's a magic love story to the core, and there more than enough angst and heartfelt sentiments - it's just too much and thus kind of brings out the 'really? Reaaally?!' kind of feeling instead of the happy glow I associate with romance novels.