Review: Promising, but not great. *minor spoilers*
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2013
Don't get me wrong: I actually enjoyed the book, but I felt like there could have been a lot more done with Lexi.  Giving her a solid identity would have helped.  Does she want to go to college?  That's part of her character and is even in the description of the books, but it didn't really seem like it, since it felt like, other than being mentioned only briefly in a couple of instances, that college wasn't really a consideration.I liked that Lexi's abilities were vaguely understood toward the beginning, because I think it helps the reading grow more invested as we see Lexi's powers emerge.Honestly, I think the love triangle could have been left out and it might have made the book better.  Jason is incredibly frustrating and, honestly, annoying.  I guess part of it is if that if Lexi's Essence is SO powerful, as they mention repeatedly, then Jason should have been able to feel that even with the incidental contact at the beginning of the book, thereby removing a lot of Jason's hesitations.  Which probably would have made him less aggravating.  Maybe he was supposed to be written that way, but I didn't like him.I didn't like Ash, either.  Controlling, domineering (to a point), and bordering on obsessive.  He was at least better written as a character than Jason, but I still didn't like him.All that being said, I thought this was a fun read.  I think it's an interesting take on people with "powers."  I'm hoping to make it around to reading the sequel at some point to see if the potential for a good story is realized.