Review: Honest review given
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 16, 2014
3.5 StarsThis book started out brilliantly, I liked that it was told completely in the male characters' point of view and it is like he is telling us his story looking back on it after the fact. It is told in present tense with the odd thought thrown in in past tense, like he is keeping a running commentary on the story, which I found to be unusual but I really liked it. This drops off around a quarter of the way through and it is just told in present tense but the story is still gripping. Around halfway through I found that the story lost a little of it's steam for me. I can't decide if this was because I found the story to be becoming less believable with it's sometime cheesy dialogue or whether it's because it just felt rushed. This is a very short book, and from what I can gather intended to be a prequel to a series, so it seems it is setting the scene for the main story so I did keep this is mind whilst reading. But even knowing that, a lot happened within this short book and I just felt that the book could have been improved dramatically if it was a little longer, with more attention being paid to certain scenes. Having said all this though I liked the character of Grim and the story seems to be shaping up to be a good one so I would definitely read the next instalment.I would rate this book 3.5 stars but as Amazon and Goodreads do not accept half stars I will round it up to 4 stars when posting.