Tim Bower Bower من عند Vasilyevka, Krasnodarskiy kray, روسيا
I received this from the First Reads giveaways. I am so glad I didn't pay money for this book. While the information on gnosticism is interesting, the book as a novel was not. The characters are not developed at all, they exist only to teach gnostic history. While reading, I kept wondering if it was written for a "young adult" audience, as the writing was incredibly simplistic. I don't think I've ever given a book one star before. Terribly disappointing.
Contains Spoilers!!!!!------ I liked this series, but the end was debatable. I can't decided if I wanted her to live or not. I keep thinking about her family and how sad they must be. It breaks my heart especially after we already read 3 whole books about them. I'm glad that Kristen got her life back, but I was still annoyed. I’m glad that Caspian and Abbey get to finally be together, but I was hoping that Caspian would come back to life. It would have been sappy, but at least I would have been happy. I wasn’t that surprised to find out that Caspian was a descendent of Mr. Crane. I was surprised to learn that Vincent was supposed to be Abbey’s Revenant. He is a bastard for killing Kristen, but I am glad that Abbey got to live a little longer for it. I’m disappointed with the end actually. I don’t really like families having to suffer because their child dies. It is upsetting to read 3 books about a family and then having Abbey taken from them is upsetting. I don’t think Abbey was very nice to her mother though. She was a bitch and extremely rude to her. When her mom wanted to spend time with her, she was so reluctant. I would love to spend time with my mom. It just annoyed me the way Abbey treated her mother. I was a little confused about Cyn’s role in the story. That was until she was able to channel Kristen’s spirit. I liked this book. It was interesting, fun and Verday is a good writer. I didn’t like the ending. It was to much for me.