Review: 3.5 stars Great Sory, Amateur Writing.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 9, 2014
I give this book a 3.5.  I did enjoy the story very much but there are reasons I did not give it a 5 or 4...- When I rate a book I like to think of these questions.1- Was it entertaining/ Did it keep my interest?2- How well did the story flow, was it easy to read/ comprehend/ keep up with?3- Were the characters relatable?Here's my answers.1- The story was VERY entertaining, kept my interest most of the time.  It certainly was very original and even gave way to some Russian heritage which is pretty interesting.  (4.5 stars)2- Through out the entire book I kept thinking about the fact that a lot of things I was reading were not easy to understand.  Many sentences were run on's.  When the characters are exchanging dialogue it was often hard to understand which one was speaking.  I found myself thinking it seemed kind of like a teenager's writing but then I realized that the author is Russian and English may not be her first language..  I don't know.  But it was somewhat irritating and at times I had to push through with out understanding certain sentences after reading them several times!  Other than that, the beginning moves kind of fast, the story keeps a good pace but the ending is pretty jumbled together.  I felt like the writer had a dead line to meet and was behind.  Could've slowed the ending down a bit.  (3 Stars)3- I did find the characters to be very relatable!  The main character Lana was sweet.  Very wishy washy and indecisive, but definitely likeable.  Some of the negative characters in the story (Spike & Kate) were quite funny at times.  It's very easy to like the main characters and root for them!  (5 stars)