On the Back of the Book
Florica and Amanda are friends that met at a hotel that was used
for the homeless. After nearly two years of living at the hotel Amanda’s
parents receive a gift from a stranger, which gives them a place to stay in the
country. After they move into the small house Amanda learns that she lives next
door to the boy she had a major crush on. After Amanda is visited by her
crush’s best friend a ghost named Craig; she and her friend Florica decide to
investigate Ryan and his current mood swings. Amanda and Florica are stunned
when they find out that a member of Florica’s family has placed a circle of
sorrow curse on Ryan that can lead to his death, while reaching out to others.
They must travel across the continent in search of Florica’s brother with the
hopes of uniting the rouge member while shaking the stink of gypsy magic.
Pre Read Thoughts
Due to this
being an old book I’ll just write what I put in my review book.
This
is yet another book I found for free on Kindle when I was loitering on Amazon. I
picked it up because the synopsis sounded interesting, if a little wordy. The
cover* is pretty dull and it’s not something I would buy but I’ll try anything
once. This is 77p on Amazon, it’s only available on Kindle so if you’re a paper
book lover then you’ve escaped the clutches of this book.
*The
cover I can find on the internet isn’t the one I saw. The one now is pretty
much a carbon copy of Michelle Zink’s ‘Temptation
of Angels’ and that doesn’t make me like it any more. I really hate when
books have the same cover. It’s confusing.
Post Read Thoughts
This is awful. It’s easily the worst thing I read in 2012. I
had to start this review with a declaration to prepare for the onslaught of
what I’ve written about this. It’s not pretty. I don’t mince my words. First of
all I hated the layout of the book. There were massive gaps in between each
paragraph and I wasn’t sure where to take a break. This also needs serious
editing. I went from “Chapter 1” to “Chapter 3”. Where I come from there’s a
number called 2 and for the life of me I just couldn’t find it and believe me I
looked. At least twice. The actual story made no sense whatsoever, if you’ve
read this can you please explain to me because I just don’t know. I also found
the whole thing to be wooden, I would’ve just given up but I don’t quit on a
book (I read the initial Mortal Instruments trilogy and you possibly saw what
happened with those.). I blog to find books that I’d feel happy to get other
people to read, this isn’t one of them.
Amanda – bland, boring, dull. She’s
so unengaging that I had a conversation with thin air every time she was
mentioned. The only thing I found even remotely interesting was her connection
to Craig the ghost and then the author did nothing with that. I’ll be damned if
I actually pay money to find out what’s happening there.
Florica – Florica is so forgettable
that I couldn’t even remember her name once I’d finished. I also found her to
be dull but she seemed to be important to the plot. The final part of the story
where she took Amanda and Ryan across Europe seemed pretty pointless to me.
Ryan – Poor, hexed Ryan. Well I
say that but the hex/curse wasn’t explained well and the resolution seemed too
easy. The way he felt about Florica was hopelessly obvious and I’m wondering
why on Earth the girls didn’t notice. I also don’t get why he went to Europe
with them, it was a bit desperate of him and no girl likes a pining puppy dog
of a man.
Overall this book is horrific. There isn’t one thing I liked
about it and I wish that I hadn’t downloaded it. It wasn’t worth the time and
the effort it took me to read it and it most certainly wasn’t worth what I paid
(which was nothing so ouch!) I don’t mean to be horrible but I vowed that I
wouldn’t be one of those people who goes around giving every book 5 stars. It wouldn’t
feel right and my mother would probably kill me for lying... (okay maybe not
kill but she’d be mad.)
My Rating
1 Star – Horrifically bad, it just
didn’t feel good to read. Words cannot describe how much I detest this book. I
recommend it to no one. Please don’t buy it, just scroll past like it doesn’t
exist.
A Final Note
I wrote this review in 2012 after reading this book. It
could have been edited (like the cover was) but I’m not reading it again to
find out. This is how I felt at the time.
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