Saturday, February 15, 2014

Scintillate: YA Fantasy Romance

Scintillate (The Light Key Trilogy, #1)Scintillate by Tracy Clark
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Meh...Okay, so I get why some people would love this. Instant love connection, boy that's bad on the outside, good on the inside, almost-love triangle, "unique" and "gifted" main character, and lots of mysteries. And the writing itself was fairly good at drawing me in, enough that I had no problem finishing this book.

But..I was a little bothered by it too. The metaphors felt forced, as if someone told the author you couldn't write a proper novel without metaphors, so she sat there and came up with a bunch to stick in her novel. The Finn's dialogue was overly flowery. I could bypass it in a book, most of the time, but I seriously hope I never have to hear it spoken aloud. I would die laughing.

Essentially, Cora suddenly starts seeing auras after a major illness, and around that time an Irish guy visiting her school starts noticing her too. Her aura is different than everyone else's, which she's been warned is a bad thing, plus some creepy man keeps trying to suck her soul out of her. So she has to balance lots of questions, confusion, and fear, plus figure out what's going on with the attraction between her and Mr. Irish guy.

I don't know, it was decent, but I think the sequel might influence how I view this book. I can think of two directions it might go, and I'm hoping the storyline takes the less expected one (and I will give Scintillate some credit--I was surprised by a few plot turns near the end, though I saw most of them coming). For now, I'll stick to the middle ground with this book--3 stars.

This digital copy of Scintillate was given to me by NetGalley & Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

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