Alicia's Reviews > Green

The book started off strong, but had some serious plot issues. The beginning was a fairly standard child-training-to-be-awesome plot (pretty much every fantasy book which is set in a school), but with a twist, because Green is actually a slave and being taught against her will. However, instead of going where I thought it would go, the book suddenly takes a turn for the unexpected...in a bad way.

If he had just written the book that I expected was coming, I think that could have been quite good. Instead, we experience a very hasty and unexplained ending to the original plotline and wind up in a completely different book, which is entirely unrelated. It takes a bloody long time for the plot to circle back and explain WTF actually happened in the first third, and calling it explaining is really giving it too much credit. There are really three almost unrelated plotlines here, and honestly, none of them end in a way that is satisfying enough to close an entire book.

Moreover, Green's character can get a little annoying. She's extremely fixated on certain things, and is not endearing enough for me to forgive her many flaws, even if I do identify with many of these flaws (bullheadedness, rashness, impatience).

I give it two stars because the beginning was so strong, and it did touch on some interesting ideas. But really, a fantasy book about a spunky young girl who kicks ass, and you lost me a third of the way through the book? It had to have been pretty bad.