by Rebecca Hawkins

Created on: July 13, 2010   Last Updated: July 14, 2010

While walking around my local Tesco and having a nose down the book aisle as I usually do, I was struck by this book due to its very nice cover. I always like buying random books and this was in a buy 2 get one 1 deal. I already had another book I intended to buy and my other half brought one also. Its usual retail price was £8.99 and it falls within the fantasy fiction genre.

Story
The story follows Lucinda, or Luce to her friends, as she is sent to the “Sword and Daniel who catches her eye and becomes a bit of a fixation to Luce, even though he has barely said 2 words to her and flicks between being charming and horrible to her. She likes him within seconds of seeing him but isn’t sure why she feels so connected with him.

My Thoughts

After a very gripping and cryptic first chapter I had very high hopes for this book and thought I would really get immersed in this fiction fantasy, but after the first chapter nothing at all seemed to happen.

In the first chapter we are witness to a scene of a man drawing in his home back in the 30’s, sketching a woman and saying how he can never be with “her”. Suddenly she arrives and although they both seem to know each other, she is not sure where from but knows he must be hers and she belongs to him. They go in for a kiss even though the man is warning that “it” will happen again and he doesn’t want to lose her again. Then they kiss and the scene fades into white light....the next thing we know, Luce is starting her first day of school.

So yes, the first chapter makes no real sense and is gripping and confusing. As a reader I was dying to know what was going on and why this feeling of familiarity was happening to Luce and what it meant. Thinking back it is pretty obvious from the cover and a few hints along the way and I had worked it out way before the big reveal later on in the book, which shouldn’t have really mattered as long as I enjoyed the journey of getting to the end, but I can’t say I did.

Lauren Kate, the author of the novel is far from a fantastic writer and although the concept was interesting, the story wasn’t. The characters were weak and do not get expanded upon at all. I didn’t feel I could relate to Luce at all and the fact that she and Daniel have so there is to be a sequel which may expand more, but surely a first book in a series should work on setting up the characters and getting the readers hooked enough to want to read the

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