Eh, I wasn't really a fan of this book. I was 65% through with the book when I just couldn't handle it anymore and I skipped to the end just to see what had happened.This book had the potential to be great, but there were several things that really ruined the book. 1. The book started off way too slow. 50 pages were spent with Maddie attending college and it wasn't even needed. The entire book was slow and, frankly, boring. 2. I understand that this is a paranormal romance novel, but the lovey dovey "I want to marry you after only knowing you a couple months" and the "let's have sex.. oh, wait we can't" nonsense was getting to much.Rayn: I love you. Marry me.Maddie: Oh no, it's too soon. Can we have sex though?Rayn: I want to, but not until we're married.Maddie: Oh, okay. **five minutes later**Rayn: You are so sexy. I just wanna take ya to bed.Maddie: *thinks that he is so yummy*Rayn: I am yummy.Maddie: Omg, you read my mind again. *proceeds to freak out* Well, can we have sex now?Rayn: No no no, we can't. I want to, but we can't. We have to marry first.Maddie: *whines about it while Rayn proceeds to grab at her hair like a weirdo*That just about sums up the last half of the book. Honestly, I just wanted them to either have sex or shut up about it because it was the most annoying thing in the world. They were constantly touching and professing their love for each other. There was nothing else to it. I am a sucker for romance, but this was too much and I felt myself wanting to gag.Maddie is also an idiot. Her personality is blah blah blah and I found her so annoying that I wanted her to die off. She was so... bland. Rayn was a little better in his POV, but he irked my nerves as well.Besides the romance... *gag*, the plot was interesting enough and that's the only reason this gets 2 stars. The fact that I'm giving it that many while not even being able to finish it shows just how nice I am. All in all, what I just read was desperate, sexually frustrated teenagers who "fell in love" despite "all odds". Blah blah blah blah blah. Will I be reading the sequel to find out what happens to Rayn and Maddie? Nope, and I'm not sorry about it. The story could've started at Chapter 7 when it introuduces the bad guy Darryl Carter, who, in my opinion is the most memorable character here. This would have instantly given the story a sense of suspense, and not a boring intro of the life of the main character Maddie. Maddie is an unremarkable character, as well as her love interest Rayn who only has one main interesting fact to offer, that being an "out of this world" guy, literally so. The Guardian Rayn and the Spirit People Cherokee Nation protecting the mountain has saved Maddie from certain death, after she was badly beaten up by Darryl while on a mountain hike. But tenacious Darryl tracks her down again and this time, Maddie's only choice for healing her battered body is to go with Rayn, where consequences would include permanent separation from family, friends, and life on earth as Maddie knows it, while Rayn risks imprisonment in his own world in Vesturion just to help Maddie become whole again. Although I have nothing against alien stories, this just didn't unfold to my liking, but I can appreciate the panic feeling it got out of me during the impending Darryl attacks. I appreciate also the science and technology woven into the mystic factor. The romantic aspect was a bland experience, I just couldn't emphatize. I have read better books with "ordinary" heroines meeting gorgeous aliens or supernaturals that has more interesting development.
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Oh...wow..really? Ending like that? I will have to run out and get book two right now!!!!
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