Bones of Faerie

I wish there had been more build up before Liza decided to run off and start her journey. I felt nothing of a connection to her and this continued for me throughout the whole book. She was, in my eyes, just a dumb sheltered girl who never bothered to consider her actions before following through. And her magic... This book would have been better if Liza's power had been explained. The shift between visions and reality was not well defined in some places and confused me. During this confusion I also didn't understand how she could have visions without a reflection in some parts of the plot. This was a huge inconsistency because up until that moment, she could only trigger them by reflection. And why did she have certain visions? The connection between what she saw and why she saw it was never explained. And talk about scene skipping. There is never enough detail in any one setting or situation. I feel like this book is a first draft that was never added to or improved. The writing is repetitive and it's loaded with adverbs that weaken the writing. No one needs to use three adverbs on the same page, have a little originality with your descriptions! Not a series I will be continuing. The only reason I made it through the book at all was the mention of altered animals and trees, it's all that interested me. Even the relationships between the characters were weak.

I liked the different take on the dystopian type world. Faeries and humans war and now we're left with the remains. Slightly like Forest of Hands & Teeth, but instead of Zombies it's now nature that the people left behind are afraid of. I found slight similarities with Laurell K. Hamilton's fictional world and found her name in the acknowledgments. I definitely felt like I need to read the next book to really get a feel for the characters and see where the story takes us. Though the book ends on a hopeful note you do get the sense that there's something more.