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Title: The cover is the best part of this book.
Review: I was so very disappointed by this book. The cover is just beautiful, but although the book has an interesting premise, the story is so poorly told that I found myself just plowing through the pages to see if what I was pretty sure was going to happen did indeed happen. It did. I'm a teacher of the gifted, and this is not a book I am going to put in my classroom. My students would be bored silly with it; most of them could have written it better. There was no doubt in my mind while reading that an adult male was speaking -- even when Alexa is trying to be funny, she sounds like her father and his cronies. I wondered if perhaps she had hung around with them too much. And what's the deal with inserting fables and gods people already know about, when the story doesn't make any pretenses of taking place on this planet? I actually stopped reading this afternoon to complain to my mother. There was no suspense, no magic, no wonder, just incredible disappointment.
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