“Oh, this book annoyed me to no end! It started off great with interesting characters, a fast moving plot & it quickly degenerated into a wanna-be version of Practical Magic. It never comes close though because the plot produces so many "Huhs?" & so much scratching of the reader's head at its stupid plotline devices & contrivances. I read an interview with the author in amazon where she says this is her first adult book (since she's always written young adult fiction) & that she plots & works on several stories of her many series at once. Well, honey, I'd like to tell her: there's the problem. First, if this is your version of adult, I'd hate to read your YA because there's a BIG lack of anything I love about most YA. You didn't draw me into the story, make me empathize with the characters or their problems & I don't see any applicable life lessons. Second, Ms. Author, your attempts to twist the plot to suit the latest chapter annoyed me so much, I kept chucking the book across the room. (Note to self: check the spine of this library book before returning it. You may need to pay for it.) Shoot, I was so annoyed by the book, I couldn't even escape into its fantasy world.
Begone, foul spirit!!
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Alicia wrote this review Sunday, November 6, 2011.
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