Review: Could have been 4 stars +
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
I have such mixed feelings about this book/story.  I love Kristen Ashley's stories.  I truly loved this one as well.  BUT, there are a couple of things that caused me to make this only a 3 star review and these are:1. WHAT THE HELL WAS SHE THINKING!!  In this story the main female character, Circe, has transported to another world.  (Now, 1st off, when I read the blurb on this book, I kept passing it up because I was thinking of "space travel".  Like Literally!  But it's a little different than that and therefore was MUCH better written.) She actually wakes up in this world not knowing how she got there or where she is.  Then you learn, quite early on, that the language is not English.  Hell, it's not from this time period!  So, instead of having SUBTITLES, she has asterisks and then at the END of the chapter those asterisks have the meaning of the words listed!  WTH?!!!  It RUINED it for me. Like HUGE!  Now you can do 1 of 4 things while reading this book.#1. Read it and find out what the Heck is being said after each chapter.  (But by then you will have forgotten why you cared.)#2. Flip to the end of the chapter back and forth to find out what is being said.#3. Flip to the back of the book to see all the definitions and then try and find where you were to begin with to see what was meant.#4. Go to the back of the book to get all the definitions, write them down, then as you are reading you can just look them up easier while reading.I ended up doing ALL of the above and then finally ended up doing the last suggestion and it was better.  I would NEVER go to a foreign movie without it having subtitles.  EVER.  I would have LOVED to have been warned about how this was written before I got it.2.  I do NOT like a lot of details in the books I read.  I like things described, but to go on and on on details is just too much for me.  So, I skipped a lot while reading.Other than those 2 things above, the story was REALLY good.  There are some grammatical errors, but they aren't bad enough to make you have to reread the sentence/paragraph to understand what was being relayed.  There are some VERY graphic things in this story that are quite barbaric, BUT, this place where Circe ends up IS a Barbaric place.  So it fit.I know I haven't indulged too much information on the story itself and that is because I don't like to do that.  I strongly feel it would ruin it for other readers.  However, with that said:  you will read about "barbaric" ways, a love story, magic, sorrow and much more.Even though I gave this only 3 stars, I still would recommend this book.  BUT ONLY after stressing that you should get some paper and a pen and write down the definitions of the words that are spoken in this "new land" so that you can follow along much easier.  It is a wonderful story and I might even reread it in the future.  (Seems now I am prepared with my definitions.) :)