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"Grace Loray was a country of second chances. So Lu believed, with all her heart"
I am a reader of second chances and so I believed that this book would get better. Unfortunately, not. To begin, I would like to say that I did have false expectations going into the book. I believed it would be a pirate book, life on the high seas, swashbuckling, and so much more rum. My bad. Maybe waves or stream or raiders gave me the wrong idea. This book takes place on an island. On land, a place called Grace Loray.
Upon being introduced to the characters, the only one that I liked at first glance was Vex, he seemed to be the pirate I was looking for. Overall, he's still my fave and the only character that made me have any emotion in this book. I guess Ben and Lu are tied for second, I could take or leave either. Overall, these characters just made weird choices all over the book, then started making good choices, then had more epiphanies and went bad to weird decisions.
They were flung around by a plot that didn't really explain why this story had to revolve around them? I mean, yes, Ben is a prince and thus, important. Even Lu is kind of important. Sure Vex has some stuff going for him, but nothing really convinced me that they had to save their world. Not, ya know, adults. There were just too many times that they almost died, but didn't because they were just too i m p o r t a n t. I didn't buy it, they could have died plenty.
The story would have also worked better if it was first person or at least marked where the shifts in P.O.V were. Nothing fancy but something! As it stood, I had no idea who was talking half the time and I hated that.
TL;DR Basically, I just wished that the book did more with what it did have. Develop the characters. Organize a solid plot. Pretty big disappointment overall.