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3.11 AVERAGE
3.11 AVERAGE
Enjoyed the theory of the story, a little too campy. I listened to the book and wasn't a huge fan of the reader, she made the main character sound flighty... I wish I read the book.
Do you ever have those books where it seems like every page you're saying ugh seriously? This is one of those books. A great idea, but horrible executed with some of the worst dialogue. UGH!!! Full review soon.
After reading the book for my self as well as some of the other reviews I find my self agreeing that this book lacks originality. It does seem to follow closely to the premises set in the twilight series . There are a lot of similarities that can’t be ignored . The reason I give this book a 2.5 rating is that the characters were not well developed. You know nothing of the characters but their elemental abilities and their age range . It leaves no real connection with the characters . Often moments in the story feel jumpy like there’s no purpose to them they only serve to show a passing of time .
The other annoying thing are the relationships between the characters, in the first month and 1/2 of knowing Adam and having only been dating two weeks things get heavy and the future becomes this huge deal . Two weeks into a relationship the only future your thinking of is when is your next date because at two weeks you might not even know what food the other person likes or what they do for fun . Your not really thinking of your long term future together .
If I read the second book I really hope the characters are given more attention and we get glimpses of real emotion and special moments that make up the bigger picture.
The other annoying thing are the relationships between the characters, in the first month and 1/2 of knowing Adam and having only been dating two weeks things get heavy and the future becomes this huge deal . Two weeks into a relationship the only future your thinking of is when is your next date because at two weeks you might not even know what food the other person likes or what they do for fun . Your not really thinking of your long term future together .
If I read the second book I really hope the characters are given more attention and we get glimpses of real emotion and special moments that make up the bigger picture.
3.5 Stars
At the beginning it's really Twilight like but after that it gets really cool.
At the beginning it's really Twilight like but after that it gets really cool.
I'm really sad that I didn't connect with the book. The plot has promise but I find hard to connect with the characters and Adam and Meg's love story. I'm also disappointed that it lacked action or progress on what'll happen to them as the carriers of the mark and the marked one.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Great premise, horrible writing.
Things I didn't like:
1. Instant love! "I love you" after two weeks of a relationship? This just doesn't happen...
2. Bland characters! All I learned is that Adam is a hottie, Megan is boy-crazy, and the members of Adam's family are very Twilight-esque. Fionn does not act like the responsible guardian he should be. Often times, I thought of him as one of the siblings...
3. The dialogue/language! Very low level, easy read. Came across very naive/immature in most parts.
4. Very cheesy/cliche sayings! The constant "You touch her and I will smash your face in!" from Adam and the "Oh, I could never let Adam go! He just means soooooo much to me!" from Megan was just too much for me to handle.
5. Information overload! This author liked to shove every bit of information about the current topic of conversation into a very short area. Usually it was dialogue being said by someone to which Megan replied with a very obvious question along the lines of "Why? How? Who? When? What?"
Believe me, there are many more reasons but I don't feel like wasting my time explaining them.
Basically, if you really want to read this book (which you shouldn't), borrow it from the library. Don't buy it.
Things I didn't like:
1. Instant love! "I love you" after two weeks of a relationship? This just doesn't happen...
2. Bland characters! All I learned is that Adam is a hottie, Megan is boy-crazy, and the members of Adam's family are very Twilight-esque. Fionn does not act like the responsible guardian he should be. Often times, I thought of him as one of the siblings...
3. The dialogue/language! Very low level, easy read. Came across very naive/immature in most parts.
4. Very cheesy/cliche sayings! The constant "You touch her and I will smash your face in!" from Adam and the "Oh, I could never let Adam go! He just means soooooo much to me!" from Megan was just too much for me to handle.
5. Information overload! This author liked to shove every bit of information about the current topic of conversation into a very short area. Usually it was dialogue being said by someone to which Megan replied with a very obvious question along the lines of "Why? How? Who? When? What?"
Believe me, there are many more reasons but I don't feel like wasting my time explaining them.
Basically, if you really want to read this book (which you shouldn't), borrow it from the library. Don't buy it.
I worry about reviewing this because young adult fans are so culty. I mean when you dislike an adult book 9 out of 10 times people are adult about it. but if you hate a teen book, well everyone is well childish about it.
I want to start by saying I didn't actually know this was a rewrite of twilight till I looked at other reviews because well I know nothing about twilight except that robert pattenson looked like he didn't shower the entire time the movies were filming kind of like johnny depp in those pirate movies. or brad pitt post angelina
moving on, prerealizing that I hated this book. I hated it the way I hated that book about the girl who is dying you know that book people were all annoyed about me not liking because, I don't remember why I just remember people taking it personally.
I've been watching x-files the last couple days because I like paranormal stuff, I've never seen it before, but it's bad, it's bad the way SVU is bad, or the way that nip tuck is bad. It's not well written but it's entertaining, the ideas are good if a lot out in right field. but hell it's a conspiracy buff show. SVU is a criminal show, nip tuck is soft core, they all live in their little universe and they exist successfully I would guess because they know what they are and they are able to work through it in a meaningful way.
This book, well it doesn't do that. I'm not actually sure this book has any idea what it's about, is it about a girl falling in love with the bad boy, at the beginning I do have to say it does that well with a kind of american beauty vibe, but once druids come up the whole thing kind of falls to hell. It's like a stephen king story everything is perfectly fine then the aliens show up and the whole plot goes to hell. (this is not to say the beginning was 3 stars, it was overdiscribed and unbelievable, but not horrific, it had potential to save itself and I was chalking up my annoyance to a personal preference to not know the eye color and shirt color of every character because I'm self absorbed and just don't care, I'll be imagining them with whatever hair color I like thank you very much).
The problem with the druid thing is at no point does it feel based in reality. Fallon could take a lesson from dan brown (yes I just said that) instead of sparkly vampires in how to root a book. One of the various literary theory things I've read on scifi talks about how the conceptualization of scifi works. basically a plausible scifi works by constructing the natural world then breaking a single law of that world. Brown actually does this he bases his books in a reality that people can attach to, the mona lisa, chapels, the templars, these are things that we know exist, after he establishes a reality he morphs it's laws to change how they "exist" but only after the world is established.
This book, well there are no concrete laws about the possibilities there are no meaningful groundings in reality. there is no evidence of any knowledge of actual druid cultural meanings (even if the things she is saying are true, if the story about godess and the elemental powers are true she is not appropriately grounding them before expounding on them. basically they come off as crap even if there is a basis, which i very much doubt. To be specific I believe the goddess referred to is the mother goddess of the celtic tradition, she was representative of creation and the power of women. I think the book would have been better if maybe 20 pages of meaningless description were removed and instead a chapter was added that includes the real meanings of Danu, I mean lets not just be like "YOU ARE AIR WE MAKE YOU POWERFUL NOW MAKEOUT" take a moment discuss the ritualistic power of women in irish folk lore the power of the triple goddess (which it seems danu in some traditions is a part of) discuss the existence and dispersal of the druids and do it based on reality, it's important to create a foundation that is real to build the myth upon.
To be honest what really distresses me is how well this could have been done if it was someone else doing it.
I want to start by saying I didn't actually know this was a rewrite of twilight till I looked at other reviews because well I know nothing about twilight except that robert pattenson looked like he didn't shower the entire time the movies were filming kind of like johnny depp in those pirate movies. or brad pitt post angelina
moving on, prerealizing that I hated this book. I hated it the way I hated that book about the girl who is dying you know that book people were all annoyed about me not liking because, I don't remember why I just remember people taking it personally.
I've been watching x-files the last couple days because I like paranormal stuff, I've never seen it before, but it's bad, it's bad the way SVU is bad, or the way that nip tuck is bad. It's not well written but it's entertaining, the ideas are good if a lot out in right field. but hell it's a conspiracy buff show. SVU is a criminal show, nip tuck is soft core, they all live in their little universe and they exist successfully I would guess because they know what they are and they are able to work through it in a meaningful way.
This book, well it doesn't do that. I'm not actually sure this book has any idea what it's about, is it about a girl falling in love with the bad boy, at the beginning I do have to say it does that well with a kind of american beauty vibe, but once druids come up the whole thing kind of falls to hell. It's like a stephen king story everything is perfectly fine then the aliens show up and the whole plot goes to hell. (this is not to say the beginning was 3 stars, it was overdiscribed and unbelievable, but not horrific, it had potential to save itself and I was chalking up my annoyance to a personal preference to not know the eye color and shirt color of every character because I'm self absorbed and just don't care, I'll be imagining them with whatever hair color I like thank you very much).
The problem with the druid thing is at no point does it feel based in reality. Fallon could take a lesson from dan brown (yes I just said that) instead of sparkly vampires in how to root a book. One of the various literary theory things I've read on scifi talks about how the conceptualization of scifi works. basically a plausible scifi works by constructing the natural world then breaking a single law of that world. Brown actually does this he bases his books in a reality that people can attach to, the mona lisa, chapels, the templars, these are things that we know exist, after he establishes a reality he morphs it's laws to change how they "exist" but only after the world is established.
This book, well there are no concrete laws about the possibilities there are no meaningful groundings in reality. there is no evidence of any knowledge of actual druid cultural meanings (even if the things she is saying are true, if the story about godess and the elemental powers are true she is not appropriately grounding them before expounding on them. basically they come off as crap even if there is a basis, which i very much doubt. To be specific I believe the goddess referred to is the mother goddess of the celtic tradition, she was representative of creation and the power of women. I think the book would have been better if maybe 20 pages of meaningless description were removed and instead a chapter was added that includes the real meanings of Danu, I mean lets not just be like "YOU ARE AIR WE MAKE YOU POWERFUL NOW MAKEOUT" take a moment discuss the ritualistic power of women in irish folk lore the power of the triple goddess (which it seems danu in some traditions is a part of) discuss the existence and dispersal of the druids and do it based on reality, it's important to create a foundation that is real to build the myth upon.
To be honest what really distresses me is how well this could have been done if it was someone else doing it.