Overall Rating: 3 Stars
Date Finished: September, 21, 2016
This is a loose retelling of Hansel and Gretel. Greta (aka
Gretel) and her younger brother (not named hansel by the way) are lured into a
witches trap by the smell of gingerbread. But instead of teaming together to
throw the witch into the fire, Greta saves her brother from the fire only to fall
in herself. The fire turns out to be a portal into another world called Mylena.
There were a couple frustrations that I had. The first being
that it feels like you start out the book having missed a couple chapters.
Greta's angsty relationship with the dark Goblin king, Isaac, is already in
full swing. While the author summarizes what happened in the past two weeks it
wasn't enough. I wanted to read that first meeting in the bar, that first dream
and everything after, not just get random hints here and there. Greta's hot and
cold act with Isaac got real old. I get that this is all part of a typical YA
relationship but it kept going throughout almost the entire book.
And despite that I still kind of like Greta as a character
and then the author goes and throws in a completely unnecessary love triangle.
Wyatt is the human love interest and was a great character
until they threw in the love interest. He was great with the younger boys and a
great leader and then the supposed romance changes it. To me, that ruined all
of it. He somehow fell in love with her in two days, so much in love that he
would give anything for her and can't stop thinking about her. And that of
course has nothing to do with the fact that Greta is the first girl he's seen
in years. And now that is going to complicate the next book because Greta's
rejection will cause a wedge and blah, blah, and I'm already seeing the next
book going downhill.
And then when things start to get tough, Greta keeps almost
dying. Now, to be fair, she almost died at the beginning of the book as well,
which puts in to question how good she really is. And I also understand that
she is just a human against supernatural creatures and she is trying to protect
this group of kids, but she keeps failing. Over and over. I mean, she is saved
by little kids who don’t even know who to fight. I could get having a couple
hard fights where she gets badly injured but I felt like she was getting badly
injured every time she tried to fight, and that just made it harder to see her
as the tough as nails hunter she is supposed to be.
It wasn't a bad read but not very original and I'm a bit
doubtful about the rest of the series.
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