Review: The Dark God's Bride
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2012
The story seemed a bit lost in the beginning and I was very close to moving on to something else. It started out rushed, moving too quickly to really get into what was happening and the dialogue, well what do I say about the dialogue, embarrassing maybe. Things settled down, the dialogue improved and I started laughing rather than cringing. The author has really avoided a lot of the excess filler and backstory that a lot of writers seem to fill their books with. Sometimes though it feels as though she may have cut out just a bit too much. The pace of the story is very quick, moving from one scene to another at lightning speed taking no time to elaborate on setting,  narrative, or transitions. You just get settled comfortably into one scene and then all of a sudden you and the characters are all scattered and moved into the next.The story was saved by the dialogue between the two main characters, Summit (Noctis) and Almara. Quite often, particularly in the beginning of the story, the dialogue was just absurd considering what was taking place in that particular scene, but this changed as the story progressed and the characters developed. I'm not certain the intention was to produce a comedy but  the absurdity of the sarcasm flung between the characters left me in fits of giggles on more than one occasion.Overall, an interesting fantasy but it was quite a bumpy ride though, moving much too quickly to really get settled into the story or grow an attachment to the characters or to savour any of the scenes despite the comedic interludes.While I enjoyed it,  I'm not certain I would make any great effort to read any of the authors other books because of it.