Okay soooooo....
I don't really know what to think about this book.. Like sure it was a nice story and all. At first when I started reading I thought it would be a bit like the Divine series by P.C. Cast but soon I saw why exactly it wasn't going to be any bit like it.
First impression: KA has a thing for marking words in cursive. lots of them. On one page. This I felt was more at the start of the book and diminished as I was reading and in a way it gives certain tone to what they are saying..
Second impression: how do you pronounce all these names?!?
So this woman travels to another land, say another dimension, that has a twin copy of everyone. Some people are in one world and aren't in the other and stuff like that.
She marries The Dragon, Frey Drakkar..
I really want to like him! I'm honestly trying to but he is such a jerk. Right I think you get my flow. It's another one of those "super sweet nice girl meets jerk and they fall in love and she changes him" things. But the truth is, sure he can do nice things and it warms you up to him every time he does, but right when you start to like him, he turns right around and you want to strangle him again or hit some sense into Finnie.
Finnie doesn't take all of his crap but in the end she still always gives him exactly what he wants and it infuriates me at times.
I think it's important to look at the historical context to understand this book and not be appalled by what women call romance. It's some kind of medeival setting where emancipation hasn't happened yet. The guy thinks he can get away with anything and that it is his right to decide everything. But seriously everything.
Keeping in mind this context, seeing how they were an arranged match I feel that I'm willing to look past this and when I do I have to admit he does pretty sweet things.
It's just.. In other books guy are jerks at the start, I can deal with that because later on in the book it reveals why they acted this way. Here it's just the basic fact of 'I am the man, I have all the rights, you are the woman and you can be happy if I give you what you want and not happy if I do not'.
I think KA created an amazing world and I love the fact that it's all snow. I love snow! They also have multiple mythological creatures we all just have to love. Although this could have been milked a little bit more but I guess in the end it's a way you decide to get with the book as Author or not. And KA decided not to go there. Which is fine. The one giant downer though was that it just kept going on and on and on and on.. Every time you entered a new room, a new house, a new bar, a new city the descriptions kept being thrown at you and I'm ashamed to admit that somewhere 3/4th into the book I started skimming over the pages when I saw a description and stopped actually paying attention. There is something about books that allows my imagination to run wilde, imagining how the place would look etc.. But KA's need to describe everything down to the fiber of the carpets or the last bead hanging on a necklace drove me crazy! My imagination couldn't follow how specific it all was which made me sad because the place was honestly beautiful..
Another thing I loved in this book was how open sexuality is. As in the wife doesn't have to be a virgin when they get married, sexual relationships pre-marriage happens and it's all fine. No one things badly of it and it doesn't matter if people want guy on guy action, woman on woman action or whatever they feel like. Like I said. Open minded.
The cover of the book is simple and it's a nice step away from the usual hot guy on the cover and CHEAP! Again I bought it as an Ebook and it was 1.99... For that price, this book was more than worth! It was longer than most of the books I've been reading lately which was also a nice change, but I feel like a lot of that being longer didn't actually make the story.. More. It just made everything more detailed.
All in all for the price and considering the other elements this book was a nice opener for a series that, I already checked, continues. It's a nice introduction if you want to keep reading and a nice stand alone story if you don't.
On the scale of book I've been reading it goes something like Selection > Wildest Dreams > Lux...
Cover 2
Price 2
Story 1
Characters .5
Overall 1
Leaving this book at a 6.5, seeing I loved the cover and the price. Which i think is exactly right. It's average, but a lot better than what i had expected... And I have to admit.. In the end even I decided I liked Frey,.. (Although he never REALLY apologized for any of it..)
Note: One thing I did have a problem with, was that the Ebook version holds a lot of mistakes.. Meaning wrong punctiation and sometimes when it should have been "he said. it was "she said. And the other way around. I don't know if the actual book holds the same errors but I felt like this somehow annoyed me a little bit.
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