Fated

This is a very hard review to write - while I didn't dislike this book I rarely felt compelled to pick it up and found it very easy to put down. Jacka's writing is good, and I liked all of his characters - especially the protagonist Alex.

I really didn't get on with the long chapters, containing multiple scenes. I feel for Urban Fantasy that Jim Butcher's Dresden Files is the perfect example, where he will write short chapters that are usually only one or two scenes with a small cliffhanger. The short chapters make the book feel faster paced, and the cliffhangers draw you in to reading the next chapter. With Fated I was often relieved at the end of a chapter and eager to put it down.

To illustrate how easy this was for me to put down - Fated tool almost 3 weeks for me to finish, where a Dresden book would normally take me a couple of days. I've even read 900 pages Robin Hobb books in under a week.

Jacka manages to build an interesting magical world in Fated, which is what will bring me back for the next entry, but it's currently at the very bottom of my TBR.