I wanted to like this one from the description but it just took so long to get going, there is a lot of back story before it even gets to the continental trip mentioned in the blurb.
If it wasn't for the fact i had a deadline to try and finish it to get a review written i'd probably have given up on this, and i rarely do that with a book. If a book isn't gripping you in the first 50 pages then give up - there are far too many books waiting to be read to waste time labouring through one. I even found myself at 150 pages in wondering when the plot mentioned in the blurb was ever going to start, instead of the extended back stories that never seemed to end. None of the characters kept me interested or seemed very likable, even the main protaganists, which is disappointing,
So overall i did not enjoy this experience at all and it does not make me want to check out any of the others in the series. Perhaps that may be a bit harsh coming in to a series on the 8th book, but this one did very little for me at all!
If it wasn't for the fact i had a deadline to try and finish it to get a review written i'd probably have given up on this, and i rarely do that with a book. If a book isn't gripping you in the first 50 pages then give up - there are far too many books waiting to be read to waste time labouring through one. I even found myself at 150 pages in wondering when the plot mentioned in the blurb was ever going to start, instead of the extended back stories that never seemed to end. None of the characters kept me interested or seemed very likable, even the main protaganists, which is disappointing,
So overall i did not enjoy this experience at all and it does not make me want to check out any of the others in the series. Perhaps that may be a bit harsh coming in to a series on the 8th book, but this one did very little for me at all!