Review: Could have been really good, I WISH it had been really good
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
Marked for Vengeance was given to me for an honest review. When I read the reviews on Amazon, I got to thinking I missed something with all the 5 Star reviews, but we know how that goes. This was a story I was looking forward to reading. However, as it meandered along, I became more and more bored.The premise eludes the reader for a vast majority of the book. You are just given enough information to know that something about Alyx is not normal. You `get' that she has a mission from ...... somebody, which tells her to watch over Isaac and grab him at some possible future date/event.OK, this still sounds like a good story, but then we get a hundred pages or more of "a day in the life," and to be honest I was plain bored. I wanted SOMETHING to happen, but all we got was a love affair with no real love, a unrequited love (bordering on stalker's territory) and a lot of what she wears and thinks and eats and drinks and Ad nauseam ...I did like the story once it actually happened about 75% into the book (300+ pages remember), but by that time I was more interested in ending my suffering to get to a really GOOD book.I hate writing bad reviews. This one was possibly a combination of my mood and the extreme slowness of the story development. The ending left so many things unresolved and I HATE it when a major part of a plot is based on someone just NOT telling someone something (yep , has that also).I would tell you a bit more about the "good" parts but then you would get about 200 pages into the book and start writing me hate mail.Since this is book #1 in the series, I think it was not a fantastic start. I have to assume the purpose of such a book was twofold:Entertain me - (Not Really)Hook the reader into the next book - (Only At Gunpoint)Job done, 2.5 Stars, but I am giving it 3, just in case I am having a bad day. Maybe future books will convince me to return but I cannot promise anything like that today.Reviewed by:  Douglas C. MeeksMember of the Paranormal Romance Review TeamNOTE:  I bought the next bookTethered by Fate (Book Two: The Alyx Rayer Chronicles)and the novellaA Race to the Finish (Novella: The Alyx Rayer Chronicles)for this series, I am just not sure if I will ever get motivated enough to read them.  This was not a bad story, it is a very good story, it was just not told very well for my tastes.