After having this book being recommended to me by Goodreads like a kajillion times, I have finally decided to pick this up. What I can tell you is that it's definitely entertaining, but it's not a good book in terms of content.
Brief summary: When Aria is almost raped by Soren, his father makes her "disappear" by throwing her off a plane into the Real Word. Nearly dying, she tries to find some people that would help her get back to her old life. Perry, recognizing the girl from his nightly raids, asks her to help him save his nephew in exchange of him helping her getting back to her mother in the other Realm. Yes, you guessed it right. They fall in love and typical YA stuffs happen about here.
A couple of things bothered me...
World-building was the most cryptic shit ever. Nothing was explained. We don't know anything about the time period or why the society is like that. It just is. Deal with it.
Also, the number of coincidences in this book baffles me. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. EVERYfuckinWHERE!
Take note of this too : Authors should stop putting poisoned berries in their books. Please, find something else more original.
Hmmm other than that, I thought that the love story was cute. A little instalovy, but quite believable. It was slow and took some time to develop. Oh, and Perry is life because he's a little cutie pie.
What I also liked were the numerous twists. I actually found myself being like " Damn, didn't expect that" more than once. The writing was not too shabby and I think that even though the idea isn't exactly original, Rossi wrote it in a way that made it differ from many YA books by the relations between different characters and by giving them some super powers without making them sound extraordinary and overdone.
I think I would've enjoyed it more if countless questions weren't left unanswered. Other than that, it was quite fun to read
3.5 Stars
Brief summary: When Aria is almost raped by Soren, his father makes her "disappear" by throwing her off a plane into the Real Word. Nearly dying, she tries to find some people that would help her get back to her old life. Perry, recognizing the girl from his nightly raids, asks her to help him save his nephew in exchange of him helping her getting back to her mother in the other Realm. Yes, you guessed it right. They fall in love and typical YA stuffs happen about here.
A couple of things bothered me...
World-building was the most cryptic shit ever. Nothing was explained. We don't know anything about the time period or why the society is like that. It just is. Deal with it.
Also, the number of coincidences in this book baffles me. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. EVERYfuckinWHERE!
Take note of this too : Authors should stop putting poisoned berries in their books. Please, find something else more original.
Hmmm other than that, I thought that the love story was cute. A little instalovy, but quite believable. It was slow and took some time to develop. Oh, and Perry is life because he's a little cutie pie.
What I also liked were the numerous twists. I actually found myself being like " Damn, didn't expect that" more than once. The writing was not too shabby and I think that even though the idea isn't exactly original, Rossi wrote it in a way that made it differ from many YA books by the relations between different characters and by giving them some super powers without making them sound extraordinary and overdone.
I think I would've enjoyed it more if countless questions weren't left unanswered. Other than that, it was quite fun to read
3.5 Stars