The Golden Book of Faerie

This was a strange book. I liked it, but I didn't like it. It's so hard to explain. The story is fabulous, the setting is wondrous, but something was missing.

Oh! I know what is was, it was the characters!

There was close to no character development. You were just expected to understand why two cousins who live an ocean away from each other and are so different are so close. You actually just assume they are so different, you don't really know because Fin (I do that because her name was too long and impossible to pronounce) was barely in the story. Gwen is wishy washy and apparently, very quick to fall in love? I'm not even sure what happened there.

I read somewhere that this book was updated and re-released. Maybe something got lost in the updating? It was so strange because the story was so good, but the writing itself, the way the story was written was awful!