Book source ~ Tour.
My review is voulntary and honest.
16 March 2019
Fantasy | YA
104 Pages
My Rating ~ 3 bites
Sapphire Smyth’s 18th
birthday may not be the most enjoyable of birthdays, but it sure is memorable. After
all, it’s not every day that you turn 18 and get kicked out of the foster home
where you thought they cared about you. Abandoned as a child by her father when
her mother died and now again by the only family she’s really known. What kind
of bullshit is this?
Then something freaky
happens. Is she going nuts or is she seeing shadows come to life? And what does
her best friend Ben have to do with any of this? She wants answers but Ben isn’t
talking. That should piss her off, but Sapphire is a bit of an idiot. And she’s
easily distracted from questions needing answers. This is what I consider a
major flaw of hers and it is supremely irritating.
Since this is part one
of a five part serial I know it won’t come as a surprise that it’s about 100
pages and ends in a cliffhanger. The world building is sparse and the character
development lacks, most likely because it is a serial and I think the story
gets short-changed in this format. Probably why I don’t read serials. In any
case, I think it would read better and be less frustrating (I’m looking at you
short-attention-span Sapphire) if it were beefed up a bit. Since the story is
very incomplete I may continue on to see what happens and review it as a whole.
But I sure hope Sapphire gains some focus. And some answers. Because I just
want to smack some sense into her at this point.
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