Review: Excellent beginning.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2013
First off, let me say that the reason I first picked this book up was because I inferred there would be a f/f pairing. It's hard to find good literature where this occurs, but I've found it's a bit more common lately. Now, on to the review.Woah! This was an amazing start for a series. Admittedly, some of the scientific mumbo-jumbo went right over my head as I was reading this, but by the end of the novel, I felt I had a pretty decent grip on the rules of this universe. We had no info-dumps (thank the heavens!), and no horrible clichés. This, above all, was one of the reasons I found the story to be so engaging.Ceri and Lily are wonderful young women, but I felt it was the secondary characters that really gave this novel a lot of its depth. Everyone was REAL; they were so incredibly fleshed out, the world was so LOGICAL, that I could easily imagine myself living in a world exactly like the one described.To be perfectly honest, I would have rated this a four and a half if I could. Firstly, the cover just didn't grab my attention. Cover art is incredibly important, especially when it comes to e-books. I overlooked that, though, because the story sounded decent (it was wonderful), and the few reviews that were already listed were good ones.Secondly, the use of the word 'giggle'. I understand why it was used so often. Ceri and Lily are just the type to giggle a lot, but still, it was...annoying? I guess, to see it what felt like every other paragraph.One last thing, I could really see the similarities, or the places where inspiration was drawn, from and between Ceri and Lily, and the Hollows series characters Rachel and Ivy. Personally, I think Niall Teasdale pulled the dynamic of their relationship (their being Ceri and Lily) off quite well. In fact, I prefer Ceri and Lily to Rachel and Ivy, as the former are not annoying in the least, and are much more loveable than the latter.All in all, this was an excellent addition to my woefully inadequate collection of UF novels. I'd definitely recommend this novel, and the series itself, to any interested parties.Please, keep up the wonderful work, Mr Teasdale.