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read_with_miss_g's Reviews (1.22k)
This book probably would have scored a lot higher from me except for a couple things. I picked this up at Lifeway Christian Bookstore thinking it sounded like a good clean read that I could recommend to middle school kids at my school. You can imagine my surprise when in the first portion of the book the McKenna and Veronica are talking about if they have slept with people. Then in another portion of the book one of the characters says that boy she likes makes her feel things in her "girlie parts." That right there made this book loose its appeal. I am not being prudish; I think things should be chaste which doesn't mean you are void of feelings.
My other problem was that apart from a few mentions of some mist-shrouded untouchable protector, there was no talk of God and how he saves you. Now I don't think the book had to get preachy about it but if your book is being marketed as Christian I do think there should be some talk of grace and forgiveness.
I could go into more detail about things that drove me crazy about this book but those are the main things. The publishing company is an imprint of Harper Collins I believe so I get that the Godly undertones aren't going to be as strong as a book coming from Zondervon or Bethany House. I just was a little disheartened by a book that is clearly being marketed as Christian Fiction took such a weak and worldly stance on the matter of faith.
My other problem was that apart from a few mentions of some mist-shrouded untouchable protector, there was no talk of God and how he saves you. Now I don't think the book had to get preachy about it but if your book is being marketed as Christian I do think there should be some talk of grace and forgiveness.
I could go into more detail about things that drove me crazy about this book but those are the main things. The publishing company is an imprint of Harper Collins I believe so I get that the Godly undertones aren't going to be as strong as a book coming from Zondervon or Bethany House. I just was a little disheartened by a book that is clearly being marketed as Christian Fiction took such a weak and worldly stance on the matter of faith.
I felt that this book was good... But not great. Characters (and there are a lot) were abandoned for hundreds of pages at time. The drama felt forced... I never really truly felt like there was any danger of things not going to plan. There was no real chatslyst to make the main characters realize what they are truly fighting for. There was just too much going on... Too many subplots with only hazy connections to the main goal.
That being said I did enjoy it. I will read more in the series if there is more. I would love to have a winter/ Jacin story or a Thorne/Cress story.
That being said I did enjoy it. I will read more in the series if there is more. I would love to have a winter/ Jacin story or a Thorne/Cress story.
DNF stilted writing made a very interesting and dramatic story boring.
I loved this book. While there were some discrepancies, it was highly enjoyable Christian adventure novel. It reminded me a lot of the Amelia Peabody series, which was myfavorite series when I was in middle school. I think I would have loved this book even more then. I loved the character of Bret Holden. I particularly love that his character description was basically that of Harrison Ford. I think that alone was enough to win me.
Warning: if you download the kindle version to your iPad be be prepared for some formatting problems. I had an annoying green box around the text and some random or missing punctuation. At one point even a couple of repeated paragraphs. I don't know if any one else was having this problem on their iPads
Warning: if you download the kindle version to your iPad be be prepared for some formatting problems. I had an annoying green box around the text and some random or missing punctuation. At one point even a couple of repeated paragraphs. I don't know if any one else was having this problem on their iPads
Basically if you were to reimagine Firefly as a teen movie, you have the entire premiss of Starflight. It was good but it definitely could use Joss Whedon to tighten the story up and to go deeper with the characters. It's still a good, if predictable, story.
