A review by lucy_qhuay
Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon

1.0

This book was absolutely awful. I can’t even think of one good thing to say.

First of all, the writing wasn’t that good.

Sometimes, I read books that don’t necessarily capture my attention because of the story, yet the writing is so good that I feel compelled to read it until the end, just to see where it all is going.

I can give you one good example of that – Whither by Lauren DeStefano.

I didn’t really like the story. That whole situation with kidnapping and buying young girls to be married to young men and serve as ‘breeding mares’ seriously gave me the creeps.

However, DeStefano is obviously a talented writer, since I greatly enjoyed the way she led me through the events that happened in the book and I just had to read it until the very last page, so I could know what happened to the characters themselves and to that very twisted world.

I can’t say the same about Leigh Fallon.

I didn’t like the story of Carrier Of The Mark at all, since none of the characters were even remotely interesting to me and I thought the mythology involved was completely ridiculous.

Now, what the hell is going on with all these people who can control the elements?

Why are they marked and what does that even mean? What does it mean all that talk about genes and royal blood? W hat is their purpose? What does it even mean that they are the descendants of the goddess Danu? What does it mean that whole talk about the ‘alignment of the Earth’? What’s the big deal with all that?

And what do monks have to do with the Sidhe? I thought when we referred to the Sidhe, we were talking about the fey. But apparently, in this book we’re talking about dead monks.

See? I thought this entire situation was completely ridiculous. Nothing sounded believable or important to me and I spent most of the book skipping pages.

Also, the romance completely sucked.

I hated that Meg fell head over heels in love for Adam the first moment she laid eyes on his ‘gorgeous’ self and that she proceeded to make a fool out of herself, blatantly showing to everyone how she was tripping on her own feet because of him. And Adam wasn’t much better either, even though he supposedly ‘resisted’ her for a while.

Plus, where were the romantic moments? I didn’t read any. This was a plain ‘I-see-you- OMG-what-a-hottie-I-love-you-I-will-die-for-you-be-the-father-of-my-children.’case.

Ughh! A complete miss.