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danelleeb 's review for:
Guardian of the Gate
by Michelle Zink
In the first book we learn that Lia and her twin Alice share roles in the prophecy. In this book, Lia continues on her quest to end the prophecy while her twin sister, Alice, tries to stop her.
It starts out weird. There's this disjointedness about the beginning and it may be because it doesn't exactly pick up where the first book left off. The story continues and you aren't pecked to death by every little detail of her quest/journey or the mystical island she visits, but you're also not really given enough information to make things seem plausible. Perhaps the author wants you to feel as confused as Lia?
I think it's a good story - overall. But I think maybe it's written in the wrong time period. The accuracy of it all seems really off. In many of the scenes, the actions of the characters don't ring true. A new character was introduced in this book - a love interest for Lia -and though that was fun and the romance is definitely PG it was another part that I couldn't help but feel was way off for the 1890's.
It was frustrating as I read along to learn so little of the prophecy so late. As with the first book, it didn't really get good until toward the end, and then it just ended. I read this thinking it'd be one of my quick YA reads that I read in a day because I can't put it down, when in fact, it was a quick YA read that I read in a day because I just wanted to get it over with.
It starts out weird. There's this disjointedness about the beginning and it may be because it doesn't exactly pick up where the first book left off. The story continues and you aren't pecked to death by every little detail of her quest/journey or the mystical island she visits, but you're also not really given enough information to make things seem plausible. Perhaps the author wants you to feel as confused as Lia?
I think it's a good story - overall. But I think maybe it's written in the wrong time period. The accuracy of it all seems really off. In many of the scenes, the actions of the characters don't ring true. A new character was introduced in this book - a love interest for Lia -and though that was fun and the romance is definitely PG it was another part that I couldn't help but feel was way off for the 1890's.
It was frustrating as I read along to learn so little of the prophecy so late. As with the first book, it didn't really get good until toward the end, and then it just ended. I read this thinking it'd be one of my quick YA reads that I read in a day because I can't put it down, when in fact, it was a quick YA read that I read in a day because I just wanted to get it over with.