Review: Crispin's love
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.This book introduces you into a world of “monsters” in the form of Vampires, half-breeds, witches, and were’s. I love the original concept of the story. I thought that Crispin’s name was unique and something that I was not expecting lending a little light humor to the book. This book had a great buy in with a teenage girl who was being forced to move to a new town with her mom, overhearing her mom say things that just did not make any sense. The girl (Tori) knows mom is hiding something. Little does she know that what is being hidden is going to rock her world. I love the connections that Tori makes and how she makes them. I always enjoy a bit of light humor in books. I really felt that this book is best suited to an age group of 13-15 year old’s.On the flip side, I felt like more work could have been put into the editing process of this book. There were so many times I wanted to scream because of editorial errors. From things like “split” when it should have been “spilled” to Tori being spelled Troi. Those little editorial errors take away from what the book is trying to relate. I also felt that there was not a seamless flow to the POV changes in every chapter, while a great concept, I felt that it could have been improved (again by editorial fixes) because there were times when we were in Tori’s POV and it was hard to tell it was her talking. I think the author was right in trying to create a cliffhanger for this book to lead into another installment, but I felt that the one used was a little random. I give this book 3 fangs because it had a great concept. It will be wonderful to watch this author develop as a writer in future books.