Review: Great Story, Writing Needs a LOT of Work
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
This book was great! It was really entertaining and the plot was well-thought out. BUT...I don't usually rate books I review, but if I was to rate this book, I'd give it a 3 even though the story was great. Why?Despite the book's amazing characters and storyline, the writing itself was not so great. There were misspellings, incorrect grammar usage, and lack of proper punctuation. I checked, and this was a finished copy.....Anyway, on to the review of the story itself.In the beginning, I was absolutely confused/annoyed with the plot. There was a narrator and it keeps going back and forth from Keleigh to the narrator. I learned later that the narrator was The Seer. She was the main storyteller. I wished there was a clearer distinction of the speaker as well as a clear message that the person speaking was The Seer. I kept going back and forth to the Prologue trying to figure out who the narrator was until the character Madi found out that she could see and speak to The Seer.Vanity was the biggest thing in Salem. Everyone wished to be beautiful. Everyone was shallow. Locke lost his girlfriend in an accident. Later on, we learned that she became the Seer. Awkwaaaaard :) It's awkward because The Seer is the one that watches over Keleigh. But before that, The Seer used to watch over Locke - she saw everything he did, including the times when he hooked up with other women after she died.Anyway, Locke was a powerful Druid. I believe he was also the youngest. He definitely had a sexy voice and despite the scar on half the side of his face, he was beautiful inside. At the end of the day, that's what mattered.Keleigh was the daughter of a very powerful Vate. Her parents were killed in a flash flood - or so people said. She knew what really happened to them and throughout the entire story, she refused to acknowledge what she really was. She had powers people never even dreamed of. With the help (and love) of Locke and the three Sisters, she was able to harness and make use of them when needed.As for the rest of the story, there was a fight of good and evil, a search for a witch bottle, and admittance of mutual love. Overall, the story itself was quite exquisite :)