Eversong

Title: Eversong

Author: A.C. Salter

Genre: Fantasy

Source: Kindle Ebook

Rating: 2 out of 5 paws

Elora's past is filled with half-truths and mysteries.  SHe's been an  orphan her whole life, raised by her uncle.  Then one day she finds out she isn't even from Earth, but another realm called Thea.  Her lineage is a mystery but the general consensus is that if her existence was discovered many people would be out to kill her.  As she begins to spiral into a world of chaos and monsters, she begins a journey of self discovery and is determined to prove herself worthy of life rather than being judged to die.  Will she be able to convince those around her of her worth and ability to help bring down the greatest evil to threaten humanity?

I started out really enjoying the story, it was moving fast and was very interesting idea, but then it hit a brick wall and started to get, meh.  At about the half way point I started to get a little bored with the story, I feel as though the revelation of Elora's paternity happened too early and there wasn't any other, suspenseful event to look forward to other than the big battle.  The mythos created in the story happened slow, and felt like it was being borrowed from other stories rather than being uniquely created.  There were a few things that I had a hard time accepting such as a leviathan having the ability to disrupt electricity and electronics including a pace-maker.  I feel like there could have been a different creature to do this.

The romance between Bray and Elora felt like it was thrown into the story to add a little bit of "difficulty".  They just meet and instantly it is love and Bray risks losing all the training he has done thus far to become the Shodjak.  When Elora's paternity is revealed I expected  more of a reaction, more emotion to be displayed aside from her convincing Diagus to keep her alive.  There was just too much in the novel that felt wrong or out of place for this reader to be able to really enjoy it.  While the premise of the story itself is rather interesting, I found it to be anti-climatic especially the ending.

There were so many different grammar and spelling errors that also took away from the enjoyment of this book.  There were many times when one sentence would be a paragraph long with no commas or other punctuation to break it up.  The writing other was fine enough, but just struggled to hold my attention or make me feel connected or empathize with any of the characters.  I would not recommend this book.