Review: Telling, not showing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2012
The protagonist is a beautiful and deadly 16 year old assassin. How do we know this? Because she tells us. Repeatedly. That she is deadly and beautiful.Yet, she struggles in fights that should be easy. People are not struck dumb or behave towards her as if she is beautiful. She tells us that she is, and perhaps we should take her word for it - but, believable? Not truly. Nothing she does or how people react to her indicate that we should.This is true for all three novellas, which I read through:- The main character isn't believable because her claimed beauty, reputation and skills don't match how the story progress.- The story is a fun and easy adventure.- The writing is quite decent, in my opinion.I am giving it a 3 stars: read for fun, but don't expect something truly good, for that I would look elsewhere.