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nicolethiv 's review for:
Carrier of the Mark
by Leigh Fallon
I've been thinking about how I have wanted to write this review for a while, but now I think I finally know how.
I think it's amazing how Leigh Fallon was found on Inkpop -- a website to share writing with users -- and turned into a published author. But I think that's her problem. I've been a user on Quizilla, which is similar to Inkpop. And Fallon's writing is just like any other user out there -- a little immature. Not in the voice, but in the writing. I think Fallon needs to work on her writing. She has the basics down, now she just needs to work and practice a little bit more. Here's the problem I have with Carrier Of The Mark: It's boring. It's cliche. It's like every other story on writing websites out there. As a matter of fact, it's exactly like Twilight but with a little bit of changes.
Main problems:
1.)Instant love: Meghan falls instantly in love with Adam. She has only dated him for a week or two when she realizes that she cannot possibly go on with out him, and that'd she'd give up her powers to be with him. ..... I'm sorry, Leigh Fallon, but are you kidding me? I'm getting so tired of authors using instant love. I need to see the growth between two people and how their bond develops and makes them love each other. I just don't want a "I feel this weird feeling whenever I look at him and I just can't look away from him. He's mysterious and I'm so attracted to him" love.
2.)INFO DUMP: There were pages upon pages of information just dumped into the story. And Meghan's little "Why's" and "What's" and "How Come's" didn't break it up well enough. I started to get bored after all this information and was actually just skimming these pages.
3.) Meghan's acceptance of her powers: there was no conflict of this. Meghan learns about her powers and automatically accepts them. If I was Meghan, I would have taken time to get over the fact that I was not a normal girl anymore.
4.) The ending: The ending was like a normal quizilla/inkpop/writing website ending. Meghan ends up getting kidnapped by A Really Bad Guy and then she gets saved by Her One True Love of 3 Weeks. -Insert yawn here-.
5.) The cliche-ness: everything was cliche. Meghan is the new girl at school, her dad takes care of her because her mom died, she finds a new group of friends, she's attracted to the hot boy that everyone loves, the hot boy is mysterious, he and his family have powers that they coincidentally share with Meghan, etc etc etc. Not to mention the many similarities that Carrier of The Mark has with Twilight. This book was kind of like a Twilight rip-off.
The only redeeming quality about this story was the originality of Meghan and Adam's family's powers, because I haven't read stories on powers like those.
All in all, I did not like this story and I will not be reading the other 2 books in this trilogy. The only reason I suffered through this one was to see if it would have improved by the end, but unfortunately for me, it didn't.
I think it's amazing how Leigh Fallon was found on Inkpop -- a website to share writing with users -- and turned into a published author. But I think that's her problem. I've been a user on Quizilla, which is similar to Inkpop. And Fallon's writing is just like any other user out there -- a little immature. Not in the voice, but in the writing. I think Fallon needs to work on her writing. She has the basics down, now she just needs to work and practice a little bit more. Here's the problem I have with Carrier Of The Mark: It's boring. It's cliche. It's like every other story on writing websites out there. As a matter of fact, it's exactly like Twilight but with a little bit of changes.
Main problems:
1.)Instant love: Meghan falls instantly in love with Adam. She has only dated him for a week or two when she realizes that she cannot possibly go on with out him, and that'd she'd give up her powers to be with him. ..... I'm sorry, Leigh Fallon, but are you kidding me? I'm getting so tired of authors using instant love. I need to see the growth between two people and how their bond develops and makes them love each other. I just don't want a "I feel this weird feeling whenever I look at him and I just can't look away from him. He's mysterious and I'm so attracted to him" love.
2.)INFO DUMP: There were pages upon pages of information just dumped into the story. And Meghan's little "Why's" and "What's" and "How Come's" didn't break it up well enough. I started to get bored after all this information and was actually just skimming these pages.
3.) Meghan's acceptance of her powers: there was no conflict of this. Meghan learns about her powers and automatically accepts them. If I was Meghan, I would have taken time to get over the fact that I was not a normal girl anymore.
4.) The ending: The ending was like a normal quizilla/inkpop/writing website ending. Meghan ends up getting kidnapped by A Really Bad Guy and then she gets saved by Her One True Love of 3 Weeks. -Insert yawn here-.
5.) The cliche-ness: everything was cliche. Meghan is the new girl at school, her dad takes care of her because her mom died, she finds a new group of friends, she's attracted to the hot boy that everyone loves, the hot boy is mysterious, he and his family have powers that they coincidentally share with Meghan, etc etc etc. Not to mention the many similarities that Carrier of The Mark has with Twilight. This book was kind of like a Twilight rip-off.
The only redeeming quality about this story was the originality of Meghan and Adam's family's powers, because I haven't read stories on powers like those.
All in all, I did not like this story and I will not be reading the other 2 books in this trilogy. The only reason I suffered through this one was to see if it would have improved by the end, but unfortunately for me, it didn't.