With the new
compound comes a new set of problems. Cass and Silver are about to face the most
difficult event they could ever imagine. With Gerome gone, so much of the
future is unclear. New friends and new foes come into the twin's lives with
epic results. Is the journey for the weavers over, or will this new chapter be
the start of an exciting fresh venture?
As usual
with this series, I was hoping for a slight change on the previous story pattern
and writing technique, but if anything the series has become slightly predictable.
It's as though the author has looked at a template and gone: difficult love
story-check, action scenes-check, family issues-check, drama-check. She has
just taken her characters and woven them in. Now in essence this is the basis
for most stories, I just felt that throughout the series this didn't work. On a positive note , the author has envisaged
a gem of an idea, but the execution is just not there. A case in point are the
journeys into the web-while I am sure the author has lived these in her mind's
eye and was part of the adventure as she was writing, she fails to convey her
ideas to the reader with clarity. Trying to keep up with who can go into the
web, in which section, what they can do and why they can't go there anymore
becomes a chore-one I just skipped over. Unfortunately a few more negatives
stuck out for me-the emotions and their descriptions. Sometimes people are just
people. They don't need to erupt into anger like an earthquake or ride a wave
of love like a tsunami (my words). Sometimes it's just best to say a person was
angry and leave it up to the reader to decide on the level. Also I found her characters
tend to go from one extreme emotion to the next-outright anger to bliss
enveloped in a cocoon of comfort-far too quickly. While Silver and Cass have
matured enough for sexual relations, I found the amount of times that sexual innuendo
or info sharing was inappropriate-especially just after a battle. Certain happenings
do not need to be mentioned in front of others. The story held too many epic
scenes in it-boom!boom!boom! from one scene to the next without enough context
set up or follow through. Corinne's fix-everything shield was a little too good
to be true. And now to my favourite part-the editing. The last chapter of the
previous book was copied into the first chapter of this book and six pages
after this we were already mixing up where and were.
So
unfortunately just an average review for me. If I was not reviewing all four books
for Netgalley I don't think I would have gone passed the first one and will
certainly not be going any further. I'm sure a number of people will enjoy
this, but it did not hold enough interest for me. Best wishes to the author for
future endeavours.
Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to review
this.
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