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I have mixed feelings with this book. I know that I´d have loved “Kyland” a couple of years ago - when I was a hopeless romantic-, but now I had some issues with the plot, specially in the end. I´m the one to blame, since I knew from the beginning what was going to happen, and I still read it.
However, I was hoping that Mia Sheridan made up for the clichés, and she did. I enjoyed a lot the first two hundred pages. The characters are well written, although I didn´t connect with them as much as I did in Archer´s Voice -the other Mia Sheridan´s book I´ve read-. But I think it was because they were teenagers going to high school so they were a bit younger for me.
Then, I get to the major cliché and it was worse that I thought in the beginning.
- I knew Kyland was going to give the scholarship to Tenleight. It was clear in the synopsis. But it was necessary to add the deal he made?
- I expected Kyland to be a lot different after spending FOUR years working in a mine, since he was claustrophobic and he was always having nightmares about it since his brother and father died there.
- I love when the characters fight to be together, and I was so angry that Kyland sacrifices all his life instead of fighting. I could think of a lot of things they could have done instead of giving up. And I would have loved to see Ten sacrificing too. Because her “sacrifice” was that she did her exams badly, but the first one in the list was Kyland, so there were no differences whether she did great or not.
Anyway, I have to say that I did enjoy the book, otherwise I wouldn´t be so angry with the characters for doing what they did in the end.(I´ve just read the book so I didn´t cool down yet) .But if you are a hopeless romantic and don´t mind the clichés, I really recommend this one to you.
However, I was hoping that Mia Sheridan made up for the clichés, and she did. I enjoyed a lot the first two hundred pages. The characters are well written, although I didn´t connect with them as much as I did in Archer´s Voice -the other Mia Sheridan´s book I´ve read-. But I think it was because they were teenagers going to high school so they were a bit younger for me.
Then, I get to the major cliché and it was worse that I thought in the beginning.
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So, basically, my problems are:- I knew Kyland was going to give the scholarship to Tenleight. It was clear in the synopsis. But it was necessary to add the deal he made?
- I expected Kyland to be a lot different after spending FOUR years working in a mine, since he was claustrophobic and he was always having nightmares about it since his brother and father died there.
- I love when the characters fight to be together, and I was so angry that Kyland sacrifices all his life instead of fighting. I could think of a lot of things they could have done instead of giving up. And I would have loved to see Ten sacrificing too. Because her “sacrifice” was that she did her exams badly, but the first one in the list was Kyland, so there were no differences whether she did great or not.
Anyway, I have to say that I did enjoy the book, otherwise I wouldn´t be so angry with the characters for doing what they did in the end.(I´ve just read the book so I didn´t cool down yet) .But if you are a hopeless romantic and don´t mind the clichés, I really recommend this one to you.