Review: Becoming Edward
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2011
Becoming Edward is a sweet story about a girl in search of "her Edward". Anyone who enjoyed the Twilight Saga can probably relate to this sentiment. Finding traits and qualities in a guy that resembles Edward and his devoted, romantic, and mysterious ways.In the book Rachael's heart is desired by both Clive and Lewis, but when one of them plans to "become Edward", getting lost in the idea of winning Rachael's love through fantasy, things really begin to get interesting.As a fellow break out author I would like to share a few of my thoughts on this book and how it was written, why I gave it only three stars. As an author you really don't WANT to give another author less than five stars but, to be honest to future readers I believe that it's important to lay everything on the table.This book was surprisingly well-written for Faye Meredith's first novel. Seriously, the writing wasn't perfect but it was captivating, descriptive, and pulled me in as a reader. I've read some Indie books that I couldn't enjoy reading, they were even difficult to get through. That wasn't the case for Becoming Edward. It was a very enjoyable read. I might have liked to see a bit more character development and maybe to have the plot tightened up a bit. There were a lot of side things going on that might have been easily left out or shortened. The concept was really interesting to me and I might have liked to see the "becoming Edward" process start sooner and maybe come off a bit more romantic than obsessive. But those are my thoughts and they're not the be all end all. All things considered the story was well rounded and concluded.But like I said, for her first novel Faye did a GREAT job. I mean, I constantly found myself impressed and I definitely look forward to reading more of her work. Writing a story of this size is not easy and though it takes some time to learn how to condense, focus, and smooth out all of the details, the one thing you can't really work on is the ability to write a story of this magnitude. You either can, or you can't. And Faye Meredith definitely can!