OMG! I just wrote a huge long review and my Firefox crashed...I think I might cry. Gah!

I won this book as part of a Good Reads giveaway -- I love my kindle, but it is nice to hold that beautiful hardcover in my hands sometimes.

OK, now to try to review it all over again and sound even half as witty. Unlikely. So....I ended up being conflicted over this book. It started off really well and I was sucked right in...but around the big reveal I started to realize that I just wasn't connecting with Violet. I don't know if it was me, or if I just wasn't given enough background to understand her reactions...but they just seemed extreme...and this is BEFORE the outside influences. So, you can imagine, by the end of it I just wasn't much of a Violet fan. I know that some of it was not her...but still, I just couldn't empathize with her angst I guess. I really liked Lincoln, and we didn't really get to see much of him, and I definitely didn't understand why he was all into her. I think I would have needed to see their past interactions to really buy it all. And then there's Phoenix. I have a love/hate relationship with him. He intrigued me, no doubt...I think there is much more to that story...but he also creeped me out. So in the end I think this book was just not for me. It didn't hit all *my* right buttons...in the end, it's probably more of a 2.5 stars for me, but it's a reluctant demotion. I guess I just wanted to like it more.

In another note, I loved the concepts in the mythos and found them nice and unique...but I was also left seriously confused a lot of the times. Now, this may be just me...I also had a hell of a time understanding the instructions for installing a pocket door frame this weekend, so perhaps my brain was lacking some special enzymes....*rolls eyes*