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For a young adult fantasy this book turned out to be completely different to what I was expecting. For starters there wasn’t any innocence as I’d come to expect from young adult fiction, it actually turned out to be quite dark with sexual undertones to it which only seemed fitting seeing as the characters were young adults and at that sexual age. Being devoid of innocence was a shock but in the end not really surprising.
Another thing is, although I found it really hard to put down (it’s one of those books you could easily read in one sitting) it felt disjointed. Not the story over all but the writing style. Not much of it flowed and at times it was a bit confusing and disorientating and yet I loved it.
In mentioning the story over all it felt like it was in two halves. First half was the sexual undertones and the characters were a certain way, it had the potential to go a different way then it did because by the second half of the story the characters seemed to change and so did the story albeit subtly.
Nothing turned out quite as it seemed and the ending wasn’t all that clear cut. As if the author didn’t quite know how to finish it so left it somewhat open. I see the potential in that ending for this to turn out to be a trilogy or a series and I wouldn’t be surprised if that happened, but because of the ending I also wouldn’t be surprised (even if I was disappointed) if it ended up being a stand alone novel.
8/10
