Review: Interesting original plot needs some more character development.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2013
This book was original and interesting. This book is about 2 girls one named Sam who had prophetic dream and her little sister Violet who could wish something would happen and it would. They move to a small valley town called Lacuna Valley and while there weird things start to happen, strange people and creatures try to befriend and kill them, and 2 boys, Nick and his little brother Zach, try to love and save them. Sam and Violet are the key to a prophecy about a magical orb that can control the world. The bad guy is much closer than they think and when they find out who it is will they go against them or join them? The plot was interesting and original. Though it did at times get very long-winded and slow. I thought that though the plot was interesting something made it hard for me to read and enjoy this book. In all honesty I'm not really sure what it was that made it so hard to get into.I did not like the characters in this story very much. Sam is rude, angry, judgmental, and harsh. She was just a very unlikable character. She asked for people to stop lying to her but then turned around and lied to them. She would accept that things were happening and then wouldn't. She would say would would do anything to keep her sister safe and then just give up and let the bad guy hurt her. She was so contradictory I didn't get her. Nick was a total push-over he let everyone walk all over him. He did anything to avoid conflict and he was so vague it was hard to relate to him. These 2 through the book are supposedly in love with each other but to me the love seemed shallow and more like good friends than lovers. Violet was cute. Zach was bouncy and obnoxious but in a cute way.Overall I liked the plot line but I think the character development needs some work. I think that they need to be more thought out so that they are deeper and easier to relate too. I think that the creatures need to seem more creature than they did. Yes they are human-like creatures but the werewolves just seemed like stand-offish people and the seasonals just seemed like extreme sports lovers they weren't otherworldly enough. That was fine for the werewolves but the seasonals should have been more otherworldly.*I received this for free from the author for an honest review!*