Review: Realistic characters!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2013
Well, for paranormal, it's realistic. Toward the end there were some grammar issues that built up as well as a few possible instances of breaking character (she starts "speaking" to the audience, but didn't really do that for most of the book), but the story itself is great. The magical beings are explained well without heavy exposition. Life and death situations are kept to a minimum. Real life is still taken into account - responsibilities don't mysteriously disappear.The heroine is level-headed and has normal reactions to personal situations. I'm a bit concerned about a possible sequel leading to the "every male in the world thinks she's perfection on Earth" syndrome, but the love angles were well-contained this go round. She gets mad at them and fights with them rather than simpering, which is refreshing. The males are a bit stereotypical but are given enough personality to at least be able to keep the reader from confusing them. I loved her solution to reminding herself to stay away from the magical boys.I found it to be funny, grounded, realistic (to a point, of course), and intriguing. I liked, too, that the author gave us the groundwork for a possible sequel or series but still presented a complete, stand-alone story with a real conclusion. It was quite nice to read a magical tale and not have to learn a whole new world structure for it.