Tab Bennett And The Inbetween (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
Title: The UncoveringAuthor: Jes YoungI from PR&aTR and received no compensation for this review. I give the book 4 fangs.The main character Tab Bennett’s life is quiet, uncomplicated. She has a fiancée and a job she likes in the local bank. But her sisters’ disappearance brings hidden secrets into the light, now her life consists of long hidden secrets of her lineage and birth, of a destiny she can't avoid. Now “normal” means juggling her fiance broken heart and a handsome prince’s irresistible advances ( yes it gets very complicated in her love life) while trying to work out who is plotting to kill her.As she struggles with finding out she's not human but actually an Elvish princess.That the family she thought she had were actually sent to keep her safe, that the enemy are willing to kill to get to her.Have you ever read a book, that niggles at you, that you are not completely sure what it is, but something just feels off? Now as I sit here thinking of what to write. I wonder why such things were kept from her... They should have at least told her and trained her up when her "sisters" started going missing. I don't want to say more as it would spoil it for new readers.When trying to pick a category for this book, it was a bit stuck In between Young Adult, and New Adult... Cut out the sex scenes and it would sit neatly in Young Adult but because the author has spiced it up it can't But Tab's demeanor is too childish to me, at 20 why would she not question why her fiance wouldn't get hot and heavy with her? Why would she not demand more information when her "family" want to lie and cover up the deaths.But I did enjoy this story, there is a lot happening, it's written well, but this is a trilogy ( again! - anyone else fed up with serial books?)It's got intrigue and a few twists in it and I am interested to see where the author will take Tab next.Please note... From research this book has been previously released under a different title and I think that there should be a disclaimer plainly stated so readers are aware.There is nothing more frustrating than buying a book previously purchased and read. This book seems like it was originally meant to be YA, even the title is a bit childish. But somewhere along the way the author changed her mind, realized YA books about a normal modern girl who discover’s she actually a Fairie Princess are a dime a dozen, and decided to make our heroine a full grown woman. This would have been great. Although I love YA, it always seems a little crazy to me that some suburban teenager is expected to rule over an entire race of a magical people that she had no idea existed. The problem is even though she aged up the heroine to 24, days from her 25th birthday she forgot to make her more mature.Tab behave’s more like a 14 year old about to turn 15. For example Tab is engaged to her childhood sweetheart Robbin (yes there is a mischievous Robbin in this version too). They have been together since she was 11 or 12, yet they have never done anything more than kiss. Homeboy has never even copped a feel. Tab wants to do more and have sex, neither character is religious yet Robin keeps putting Tab off. She never really question’s him. Threatens to break up with him. Or wonder if he’s gay. Pop her grandfather tells her nothing, she knows he keeping secrets that mean the difference between life and death, but she just blindly follows along never questioning.There is also the super creepiness of the love triangle. It begins with the fact that Robbin pretended to be a child and grow up. So when Robbin and Tab fell in love in Junior High, Robbin was actually a grown man who is older than her mother. And when the past relationship’s of Robbin and her new love Alex are revealed… The ick factor is way to high.All that said I will most likely read the next book. Because the basic story is good, and as annoyed as I am with the character’s I want to know what happens to the moron’s. This series definitely falls under the “I can’t believe I read that crap, but I can’t wait for the next book to come out” category.
What do You think about Tab Bennett And The Inbetween (2000)?
Oh wow! Loved this book. I need book 2 and I need it now! Intense, intricate and well written.
—hamid
Loved it... but I don't get the starlings??
—shubi
