raconteur reviewed on 8/15/2010 + 168 more book reviews

This book started off as quite promising. Gothic boarding school, mysterious past events, creepy people, etc. The beginning was really the perfect set up for what potentially could have been a fantastic book. Could have been are the key words, though.

I'm trying not to give away any spoilers ... but, while Sebastian is dark, brooding, sexy, etc. ... it seems a little unrealistic (or naive or stupid) for the main heroine to simply set aside his (rather terrible) past deeds as if they were nothing and madly fall in love with him. Further, after the sacrifices made by a certain person in the past to protect a certain object, the main heroine seems to just blithely ignore all that by practically giving said certain object away. Her teenage love, at that point, just seemed to me to be an all consuming obsession that doesn't allow any rational thought. Which made me lose all respect for her.

Finally, the ending was very rushed, and really absolutely nothing was resolved. I suppose it's set up that way in order for there to be a sequel? Either way, the ending should have been less rushed. It seemed like the author had a certain page limit on the book and just squeezed the climax into a few paragraphs.

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