Review: I`m sorry, this was ridiculous
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
Amazon recommended this book because of my previous purchases and it looked like a great tale so I bought the book without checking reviews or anything. I didn`t realize it was book number five or six in a series. That made the first couple of chapters a bit hard to understand because there was no explanation as to what universe we were in. I wasn`t too worried, though, and after a while one could guess the parts one would have known if one had read the earlier books in the series.This book had all the elements of a great story except from good writing and that made me almost sad. Imagine what this book could have been if the author had managed to write characters with flesh and blood - not to mention real emotions. Instead if was so schematic I could almost see the IKEA guideline "insert A into B and turn three times". The book also had way too much telling and almost no showing. She says she is sad. He says he is interested. She says she is afraid. He says he is angry. There was no life at all. No love. No fear. Nothing.I found myself skipping through this book and rewriting it in my head. It`s really a shame because the universe was very interesting. It was just not written in an interesting way.I can not recommend this book at all, I`m sorry to say. I hope the other books in this series are better but I`m not going to read them and find out.