Review: Well written but has a bad ending...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2012
This book was well written but ends badly.In the time of ancient Rome a young girl has her peaceful life destroyed by an evil tyrant so finds herself fleeing, fighting, emotionally maturing, as well as realizing and dealing with the fact that she is a child of another place entirely, Atlantis.The book was well written but had a bit too many highfaluting words. There was one paragraph where I had to check my dictionary 5 times. It wasn't that I couldn't understand what was written. It's written easy enough to infer such things. Its just that if you're like me, and you want to know exactly what a word means, you end up getting pulled out of the story constantly even though you already have a vague understanding or are already sort of familiar with the meaning of some of the words. It was beautiful to read but distracting.The pacing was fine, but not too exciting that you couldn't put it down. It's a comfortable book to read while you're waiting to finish downloading a movie or something. And evan if you don't finish reading it, you could always pick it up again the next time you're waiting in line or whatever.The biggest problem with it though is that it just ended. The conflicts get resolved, kind of, but there are still lots of questions left unanswered. You're basically looking at a "to be continued..." kind of book. Don't get me wrong, it does end, emotionally it works. It just leaves a lot of threads still loose.There is a lesser problem in the romance aspect of the book. It describes the characters as being in love without actually showing that many scenes for such a thing to blossom. I say its a lesser problem because you have to take this book as an adventure rather than a romance. That being the case, naturally the concentration is in the action rather than in the love aspects of the story.4 stars. For a Free book/ 99 cent book it is definitely better than most of the other books out there.