A review by magnemightiest
Original Sin by Lisa Desrochers

1.0

I feel that when I rate a book like this so poorly, I have to justify it. The only reason I read it in the first place was because I was bored, and there was a shelf of "free books" in my school's education department. Let's stop and savor that irony for a second: this book is terrible, both because of the characters and because of the cliches running rampant throughout the entire thing. And it was for free. In the education department.

Some young adult fiction is really, really good. Some is just...not, for lack of a kinder phrase. Original Sin falls into this category (as do the other two books in the series, or so I hear). If you're looking for fiction with powerful allegory and metaphor, of struggles between good and evil, and of anything resembling a decent ending (even if it's not happy), then don't read this book. Frannie is extremely reminiscent of Bella Swan, who is a terrible role model to begin with. The Luc-Frannie-Gabe love pentagon got old and annoying very quickly. The other love story (which I won't reveal for spoilery reasons) was predictable and served no point other than furthering the storyline.

Bottom line: reading this book cost me two hours I will never get back, but at least it wasn't Twilight. The grammar and spelling were at least decent. And if that's the best you can say, then you're not saying much.