I'm starting to regret ever subscribing to a mailing service that keeps me up to date with books that become free for a day on Kindle...
Firstly, this book needs editing. Lots of it. Why? Her hair color changes between black and brown... There are words just sitting there, meaning nothing and totally out of place (I'm guessing it was edited to change certain words to reduce repetition, but they seem to have forgotten to delete the words they wanted to change), Julie seems to turn and talk to Julie, Taylor seems to be talking to Taylor.. And I swear at one point something happens (A) and then other stuff happens leaving us 2 days away from A and then when she's speaking to her friends A was suddenly yesterday.
The story wasn't all that and this little editing gone wrong just ruined it all. I kept being thrown out of the zone.. Re-reading, going back to see if I had missed something.. This book is a hot mess.
This story had a lot of potential. When finally I found out what the story was going to be about.. Some curse or whatnot I got so excited. But it doesn't go anywhere. Apperantly being cursed is not exciting enough to keep as the main storyline. Apperantly a supernatural communite isn't either.
What does seem to be good enough is the mushy, way too over the place 'Jesse is so hot and so gentle and he is the best thing that could have ever happened to me but it's so dangerous but I still love him, but he can kill me and I know all this and I have to keep repeating it but I still don't care because he is my soulmate and we're going to live happily ever after even if we can't because he's dangerous, but he's so perfect and so gentle'...
I'm kind of over the "love at first glance" thing and not really having to get into anything deeper before you know that this is the true love.
Take for example 'Kerrelyn Sparks', in the Love at Stake series they start lusting after the first glance but it's not untill later that they actually fall in love... After they get to know the other person.
I liked the Zoo angle here and I think so much more could have been done with it... Like let us get to know Jesse a bit so we can find out what's so god damn special about him.
There is potential in this book, like I said before.. But the first book really did not live up to it's potential. I will read the second because some exciting ideas were implied but not worked out. We'll see. I'm just not a big fan of their romance. It doesn't have depth. It's like a crazy love sick teen raging hormone kind of thing and that's sad. I'd also like to see a bit more of this supernatural world going on and WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CURSE! SERIOSULY!!!
2.5 stars for this book, the editing wasn't worth mentioning and the story was mostly empty filled with inconsistencies, over half the book was about nothing but there were some good ideas and I'd like to follow them up.
P.S. The cover says nothing about the book at all... This is YA, not an adult novel but it has the cover of one.
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