Jamie Magee

Sometimes you just need a break from all the rush of the world and all the new books coming out. Sometimes you just want to sink into the kinds of books you read as a teenager. And sometimes, you just want to relax while you're reading, and I think this was that book for me. I think the idea of weaving multiple series together is a really interesting and unique idea, and I can't wait to check more of these books out. Overall, I really enjoyed it.

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There was so much wrong with this book, I really struggled to finish it and was quite disappointed.

The premise was interesting and the world had potential. The ideas of different dimensions joined together by a 'string' seemed intriguing but unfortunately it falls flat, quite literally. The different dimensions aren't described in enough detail, I didn't understand why Chara was such an amazing place. The dimensions didn't have much character of their own, and far too much of the information was just dumped and told rather than being shown and discovered by the characters.

Willow was an incredibly wet main character, she barely ever does anything for herself and once she's found Landen, the love of her life, she can barely bear to not be touching him. Again, she gushes about how amazing he is, but there isn't really much evidence showing that he is. Originally, I was relieved that there wasn't a love triangle with her, Dane and Landen, but then Drake comes along. Despite her hatred for Drake a love triangle is created, and she has to 'choose' between them. It's a completely arbitrary choice, considering how much she's gone on about how much she loves Landen and hates Drake.

The whole pace of the book was far too slow, they spent far too long sitting around talking and there were whole chunks where nothing happened at all. I got incredibly bored with all the information being dumped and history being explained, it was all far too repetitive and not enough of Willow actually discovering or doing anything herself.

I found all the emotional manipulation and memory wiping quite problematic, it didn't seem right to me to do that to your friends. If you wipe away all someone's negative emotions then it doesn't actually help them deal with them and willow is only planting a false happiness and calm projected from her own life experiences. It seemed terrible to remove what happened to willow's friends on the boat, it would be terribly confusing for them, I felt they deserved more of an explanation.

The idea of searching out your soul mate seemed a cute idea in theory, but in practice it was just quite weird. As soon as they meet, they 'know' and are immediately in love, and everything is perfect. It felt too good to be true, and I kept wondering if some of the characters like Felicity were secretly unhappy with how they were treated.

I thought there were far too many characters who didn't really play much of a role. Landen has a lot of relatives that weren't entirely necessary. It probably would have been better with fewer, better developed characters.

I did enjoy the plot twist at the end, that surprised me a little and I thought that it was an interesting ending, but it wasn't enough to sway it to more than one star.… (altro)

This is a very entertaining book, dealing with a young woman who has special abilities of influencing the emotions of people around her. During nights she dreams with a boy with blue eyes. But alternating with this pleasant dream, she has nightmares about a boy hidden in shadows. Her world almost fall apart when her father tells her that they are from another dimension and what she thought were just dreams are more real than ever and new adventures begin when her family decides to go back "home". And the main love story between our heroine and the blue eye boy is something that defies time...
Very entertaining, it took me around 14 hours to read the whole book. I recommend this book to the permanent library of young adults or any reader that likes a well written fiction book.
I bought this book from amazon.com in its electronic version. Opinions expressed here are my own.… (altro)