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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
The beginning was good, but then it was like a train wreck: you want to see how it will develop, but still gruesome and terrible.
I love me some mystery and it's true fans of Ally Carter will love it. I really enjoyed the hunt for the clues and the characters. I think they will develop more in the coming books. I am not sure if it will a be a trilogy or a series but I really want to know the characters more and see what will happen after that ending. I want to see what "fate" has hidden for them. I loved Avery I can see a lot of potential for her character. I want more of Stellan, I believe that I will fall for this character so bad. Jack is fine. I don't know I couldn't feel that much for him. He was a good character but that's for me. I can't wait for the next book.
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was a book that a group of us readers from PageHabit met and agreed to read together for the month of July. I was very hesitant to read this book, due to the fact that it was a Young Adult Novel. Now, I don't have a problem with Young Adult books as a whole, but it makes it a lot harder for me to get into the protagonist's mind when I am NOT as young as her.
For one, Avery was/is very gullible, to leave her home, at the age of 15, to travel across the world with complete strangers is something that I could not believe. I thought it was irresponsible and stupid, quite frankly. As Stellan points out when they are on the plane leaving for France.
I also HATE love triangles. The whole tenson between Avery, Jack, and Stellan is an old troupe that I would love to see put to rest. I am tired of seeing love triangles in all of the genres. This is not how life is. For those reading this SPOILER review, I know that books are supposed to take you out of the realm of reality and into a fictional world, but I just couldn't.
Also, that quasi semi-sex scene in the book with Avery and Jack, was ridiculous and I just didn't believe it was right. There are teeenagers that are going to read this book and think that this is okay. They have known each other for a couple of days and already they are in bed with each other. I really feel like if these characters were 5 or 10 years older I would have been able to stand a lot more of these plot holes.
As for those few things that I did not like about the book, I did find the premise and plot extrememly interesting. I loved the history of Alexander the Great and the 12 families. I really wanted to know more about. I want know about the crypt and the treasure. It's the mystery that got my through the book. The wanting to know what happened.
I haven't made up my mind as to whether or not I want to read the second book, because the first one leaves off in a cliff hanger. I am going to have to wait it out a few days and see how I feel about it. I just finished the book 5 minutes ago and I felt like I needed to write a review on this. This is the first review that I have written about in length.
For one, Avery was/is very gullible, to leave her home, at the age of 15, to travel across the world with complete strangers is something that I could not believe. I thought it was irresponsible and stupid, quite frankly. As Stellan points out when they are on the plane leaving for France.
I also HATE love triangles. The whole tenson between Avery, Jack, and Stellan is an old troupe that I would love to see put to rest. I am tired of seeing love triangles in all of the genres. This is not how life is. For those reading this SPOILER review, I know that books are supposed to take you out of the realm of reality and into a fictional world, but I just couldn't.
Also, that quasi semi-sex scene in the book with Avery and Jack, was ridiculous and I just didn't believe it was right. There are teeenagers that are going to read this book and think that this is okay. They have known each other for a couple of days and already they are in bed with each other. I really feel like if these characters were 5 or 10 years older I would have been able to stand a lot more of these plot holes.
As for those few things that I did not like about the book, I did find the premise and plot extrememly interesting. I loved the history of Alexander the Great and the 12 families. I really wanted to know more about. I want know about the crypt and the treasure. It's the mystery that got my through the book. The wanting to know what happened.
I haven't made up my mind as to whether or not I want to read the second book, because the first one leaves off in a cliff hanger. I am going to have to wait it out a few days and see how I feel about it. I just finished the book 5 minutes ago and I felt like I needed to write a review on this. This is the first review that I have written about in length.
Oh my goodness. I need a sequel like yesterday. I do not know what I am going to do with myself until I find out what happens next.
This book was SOOOO good. It had just the right amount of angst, action and adventure. It was a wild ride from start to finish. I am very much in love with these characters, the world and the story line. Like I said, I really need another book.
This book was SOOOO good. It had just the right amount of angst, action and adventure. It was a wild ride from start to finish. I am very much in love with these characters, the world and the story line. Like I said, I really need another book.
When I first heard about this book in January, I really wanted to read it. The problem was that I didn’t want to buy it. I wasn’t that sure I would like it. So I waited for my local library to get the audiobook. Then I jumped on the chance to finally find out more about this book.
The main character is Avery West. She is just a normal girl with a single mother, always moving from place to place. Her life is normal, expect for all the moving for her mother’s job, until the night of her prom. Then everything changes. Suddenly she isn’t just normal Avery anymore.
She is Avery West, long lost cousin of the Saxon family, one of the twelve families of the Circle. These families literally rule the world and now, apparently, she is one of them. That is just a bit of a change to make in her life.
Avery ends up in Paris, completely unprepared for what is waiting for her. This is a new life. This is now her life. Until they find out. If they find out, then they will stop at nothing to get to her. But how do you keep a secret when you don’t have all the facts?
Stellan and Jack are supposed to be able to keep her safe. But from what are the keeping her safe? What do the people they work for really want her for? What’s a girl to do when she doesn’t know who to trust or what to believe?
This really is more of a mystery novel. Avery is trying to figure everything out. She is falling for Jack and doesn’t know if she should fight it or go with it. Stellan is different. He is strong, scary, and working for a family that isn’t hers.
Avery grows a lot through this novel. We see her move from the scaredc, normal American teen to someone else. She grows and changes. She takes impulsive chances and then thinks long and hard on other things. She is scared and she is worried and yet she tries to figure everything out.
While I enjoyed this book, I did have a couple of things I wasn’t so sure about. For example, almost everyone in the book is always speaking English. They are in Paris and Istanbul and yet every important conversation that Avery happens to overhear is in English. I don’t think that is exactly how it would happen in real life. It kind of made me skeptical.
Anyway, it was a book I had a hard time pulling myself out of it. I listened to the second half of it on a drive across the state and it did help pass the hours.
This review first appeared at Orandi et Legendi.
The main character is Avery West. She is just a normal girl with a single mother, always moving from place to place. Her life is normal, expect for all the moving for her mother’s job, until the night of her prom. Then everything changes. Suddenly she isn’t just normal Avery anymore.
She is Avery West, long lost cousin of the Saxon family, one of the twelve families of the Circle. These families literally rule the world and now, apparently, she is one of them. That is just a bit of a change to make in her life.
Avery ends up in Paris, completely unprepared for what is waiting for her. This is a new life. This is now her life. Until they find out. If they find out, then they will stop at nothing to get to her. But how do you keep a secret when you don’t have all the facts?
Stellan and Jack are supposed to be able to keep her safe. But from what are the keeping her safe? What do the people they work for really want her for? What’s a girl to do when she doesn’t know who to trust or what to believe?
This really is more of a mystery novel. Avery is trying to figure everything out. She is falling for Jack and doesn’t know if she should fight it or go with it. Stellan is different. He is strong, scary, and working for a family that isn’t hers.
Avery grows a lot through this novel. We see her move from the scaredc, normal American teen to someone else. She grows and changes. She takes impulsive chances and then thinks long and hard on other things. She is scared and she is worried and yet she tries to figure everything out.
While I enjoyed this book, I did have a couple of things I wasn’t so sure about. For example, almost everyone in the book is always speaking English. They are in Paris and Istanbul and yet every important conversation that Avery happens to overhear is in English. I don’t think that is exactly how it would happen in real life. It kind of made me skeptical.
Anyway, it was a book I had a hard time pulling myself out of it. I listened to the second half of it on a drive across the state and it did help pass the hours.
This review first appeared at Orandi et Legendi.
An interesting adventure with a love triangle that has a cliff-hanger ending.
Avery West has never known her father and doesn't have many friends because of the frequent moves required by her mom's job. When a new boy, Jack, enrolls at her school, Avery decides to defy her mother and accept Jack's invitation to the prom.
So starts an adventure to meet the father she has never known, Avery's education about a world she never knew existed, and her role in an ancient prophecy.
This was a fun story, although it did lag a little in the middle. However, once the pace picked back up, the story was off and running again.
Although the book is listed for ages 12 and up or grades 7 and up, I think it will most likely end up with a YA sticker (meaning only 8th grade or 13 and up) on it in my library. I think most seventh graders could probably handle it, but due to a few steamy making out scenes, I hesitate to let a sixth grader read it. Sex is not really discussed other than to say it is not a decision Avery is willing to make that night, but she seems to be okay with it the next day, before she and the guy are interrupted by a phone call.
Avery West has never known her father and doesn't have many friends because of the frequent moves required by her mom's job. When a new boy, Jack, enrolls at her school, Avery decides to defy her mother and accept Jack's invitation to the prom.
So starts an adventure to meet the father she has never known, Avery's education about a world she never knew existed, and her role in an ancient prophecy.
This was a fun story, although it did lag a little in the middle. However, once the pace picked back up, the story was off and running again.
Although the book is listed for ages 12 and up or grades 7 and up, I think it will most likely end up with a YA sticker (meaning only 8th grade or 13 and up) on it in my library. I think most seventh graders could probably handle it, but due to a few steamy making out scenes, I hesitate to let a sixth grader read it. Sex is not really discussed other than to say it is not a decision Avery is willing to make that night, but she seems to be okay with it the next day, before she and the guy are interrupted by a phone call.
i found myself enjoying this one and, for the first time in a while, i didn't feel like a book could have been shorter. the romance was fun, the entire conflict was interesting but also pretty easy so i didnt have to think too much (a quality i have to appreciate at this point in my life, though it wouldnt have been as great other times).
im excited to start the next one because of the cliffhanger.
im excited to start the next one because of the cliffhanger.