Review: Good beginning - downhill from there
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2013
I really liked the first book in this series.  The characters were well drawn and well developed. Lydia was interesting and her situation was believable (well, except for the magic part).  The second book started showing some errors with typos here and there.  The biggest problem was what one review has already mentioned - the formatting.  I tried reformatting every way I could and it was still a mess.  However, the character development continued and you could pretty much figure out the timeline from the first book. The third book was extremely weak.  Switching voices constantly from Fran to John was terribly distracting.  Sometimes I had to stop to figure out who exactly was talking.  Fran's character suddenly developed a talent that had not been displayed in either of the first two books.  There also seemed to be a couple/several year space between the first and third books - or maybe it was my imagination because the author kept getting things confused, including names.  Editing was poor. It was almost as if the author felt like she needed to write a third book and just slap-dashed it out.  In my opinion, the third book adds nothing to the series and you could read the first two and be satisfied.  Too bad - the promise of a good solid read was there with the first book, but I was very much let down.