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Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Review: The summery of this book sounded very interest. This combined with an amazing cover led me to hope for a good book. Unfortunently the book didn't live up to my expectations. The story it self was good - a girl who has been able to see the fey her whole life suddenly finds them paying specific attention to her. She finds herself caught up in a power struggle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen - a struggle that threatens to turn her whole like upside down. That was actually well told.
I loved the fey in the book as well - they were very true to traditional Celtic folktales.
My problem with the book were the characters. The main character was flat, dull and didn't really do anything besides fret about what was going on. Her human boyfriend was a true Prince Charming - absolutely "perfect", and as a result, dull as watching paint dry. The main characters "friends" were carbon copies of each other and apparently straight out of a high school boys wet dream - slutty Catholic School girls who wear their skirts high and their shirts unbuttoned and spend the entire book talking about the cute boys and deciding which one to sleep with next. The Winter Queen was a stereotypical one dimensional bad guy. The Summer King was alright, but he was a bit too passive, just letting things come to him, instead of proactively trying to do something about it (arranging for his evil mother's death perhaps?). The only character that was really interesting was the Winter Girl. She had a bit of depth to her. Unfortunately not enough to keep me reading.
Review: The summery of this book sounded very interest. This combined with an amazing cover led me to hope for a good book. Unfortunently the book didn't live up to my expectations. The story it self was good - a girl who has been able to see the fey her whole life suddenly finds them paying specific attention to her. She finds herself caught up in a power struggle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen - a struggle that threatens to turn her whole like upside down. That was actually well told.
I loved the fey in the book as well - they were very true to traditional Celtic folktales.
My problem with the book were the characters. The main character was flat, dull and didn't really do anything besides fret about what was going on. Her human boyfriend was a true Prince Charming - absolutely "perfect", and as a result, dull as watching paint dry. The main characters "friends" were carbon copies of each other and apparently straight out of a high school boys wet dream - slutty Catholic School girls who wear their skirts high and their shirts unbuttoned and spend the entire book talking about the cute boys and deciding which one to sleep with next. The Winter Queen was a stereotypical one dimensional bad guy. The Summer King was alright, but he was a bit too passive, just letting things come to him, instead of proactively trying to do something about it (arranging for his evil mother's death perhaps?). The only character that was really interesting was the Winter Girl. She had a bit of depth to her. Unfortunately not enough to keep me reading.
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