So, almost a year ago, I was hearing all these wonderful things about a book called Beautiful Creatures. Wonderful things from authors and bloggers whom I respected. When I looked at the book in the book store I was excited. it had an awesome cover (I love covers) and it was a long book. I love getting long books. More bang for your buck so to speak.
I was terribly disappointed in it. It's length just meant that it was unedited. It meandered on and on until the ending and then rushed and threw it weird things and just didn't make much sense. But, I liked the characters, and it was a debut so I thought I'd give Beautiful Darkness a try. They to have improved, right? The must have editors that point out glaring inconsistentcies, right?
No. I really can't see that they do.
The book was incredibly predictable, threw in love triangles from nowhere, as YA books can't exist these days with a love triangle, and had the worst ending of any book I've read in the last year. Possibly longer.
Ethan, my favorite character in the series, basically does nothing. He watches while other people show up to save him.
What???? Why did no one tell them that having their main character, the narrator, do NOTHING was a stupid, boring, idea? Now, some might argue that he's the only normal person in the group, there wasn't anything he could do. THEN GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DO. Have him find something, or be in charge of something, or heck discover previously unknown skills. I don't know. But having your main character do nothing, not even have a moment of self-realization during the climax of the book is just lazy writing.
Speaking of other people showing up at the end. Almost the entire book is spent with the characters trying to find this place, they are unsure if it even exists. The dig up clues and piece together a map and go on a long journey with many (predictable) twists and (boring) turns. Then at the end...everyone just shows up out of nowhere. I mean everyone. How did they get there? No one knew how to get there previously. But then they all show up just at the right time to save the day so poor, normal, could-never-measure-up Ethan doesn't have to.
This book was awful. I got it for free and I regret it.
I was terribly disappointed in it. It's length just meant that it was unedited. It meandered on and on until the ending and then rushed and threw it weird things and just didn't make much sense. But, I liked the characters, and it was a debut so I thought I'd give Beautiful Darkness a try. They to have improved, right? The must have editors that point out glaring inconsistentcies, right?
No. I really can't see that they do.
The book was incredibly predictable, threw in love triangles from nowhere, as YA books can't exist these days with a love triangle, and had the worst ending of any book I've read in the last year. Possibly longer.
Ethan, my favorite character in the series, basically does nothing. He watches while other people show up to save him.
What???? Why did no one tell them that having their main character, the narrator, do NOTHING was a stupid, boring, idea? Now, some might argue that he's the only normal person in the group, there wasn't anything he could do. THEN GIVE HIM SOMETHING TO DO. Have him find something, or be in charge of something, or heck discover previously unknown skills. I don't know. But having your main character do nothing, not even have a moment of self-realization during the climax of the book is just lazy writing.
Speaking of other people showing up at the end. Almost the entire book is spent with the characters trying to find this place, they are unsure if it even exists. The dig up clues and piece together a map and go on a long journey with many (predictable) twists and (boring) turns. Then at the end...everyone just shows up out of nowhere. I mean everyone. How did they get there? No one knew how to get there previously. But then they all show up just at the right time to save the day so poor, normal, could-never-measure-up Ethan doesn't have to.
This book was awful. I got it for free and I regret it.
