Title: Complete lack of substance
Product review: I can't see where all the high reviews are coming from. This book completely fails to find its voice or its audience. The dark potential of the plot ends up being merely a shadow on a simplistic pre-teen read, with just enough vulgarity thrown in to make it a very disturbing blend. While some characters are interesting and enjoyable, by and large they lack dimension and motivation. The social and power structures are not well explained in the text (although come to find out through reading other reviews that the kindle version must lack some essential charts that at least provide a framework), nor is the connection of the realms really defined. All of this together made the book frustrating because it could have been so much more...
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