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Mar 16, 2012irenelaf rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This was my first SK book. Unfortunately it's one she wrote 10 years ago and imho has a bit of an amateurish feel to it (esp. at the beginning with all the poor attempts at humour) as compared to other authors I've read in this genre. This author has been around for a very long time and I'm sure her more recent books are going to be amazing when I get to them. The world-building was simply "information provided". Missing for me was the writing of a creative, imaginative, unique world of immortals and greek gods. The characters didn't feel authentic to me and were stereotypical. What we get is characters 2,000 years old cracking lame, cheesy jokes! (I love humour in a book but I just didn't find anything funny). Perhaps if I had read book #0 first... I actually missed that there was a book before this one. I found it odd that SK was skipping POVs randomly and constantly to whomever throughout the pages. Even to characters barely developed in this book. It was all so "convenient"... just like the type of powers Amanda had. They certainly popped up conveniently when necessary. All in all, though, it WAS a pleasant read. The romance was great and had all the right ingredients to it and the plot/ending was satisfying even though predictable. Pretty good book but not amazingly written.