Witchling (Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon #1) by Yasmine Galenorn

Overall Rating: 1 star

Date Finished: October 5, 2016

This book was a disappointment. I picked it up because it was on my Top 25 list of books that take place in Wa and I was curious. The idea could have been good but the execution just wasn't there. 

One of my biggest complaints is that the world building was sporadic and unclear. I mean, just the premise itself, three sisters with three very different powers. They describe weres as a separate race from the sidhe and yet their father is sidhe and her sister is a were. So is it another race or a manifestation of sidhe power, because you can't have it both ways. They also mention witches as being different from sidhe and one character's powers is being a witch. And while the third is now a vampire, the only comment on her beforehand is that her power was climbing walls. So just in that back story alone there's a lot of contradiction. All the characters are pretty stereotypical and uninteresting. 

And all the romance is lame. The main love interests in an arrogant, self-obsessed jerk and she sleeps with him despite the fact that she doesn't even like him. And while she does actually like the other guy, she still maintains an ongoing relationship with both. And both guys spend most of the book talking about how good they are in bed. It was just all so overdone and unrealistic. All the conversations seemed forced and none of it seemed like real people interacting but just shells of a character.

I also hated all the assumptions and random conclusions. They get a vague description from a drunk guy in the alley and yet she knows who he is immediately. Of course, it must be him! Then they go to Tom's and come across a female fey and she all of the sudden knows who it is, this must be Wisteria who was mentioned in one sentence in a diary even though I have no idea what she looks like but I just know it's her. And the whole book goes like that, from random conclusion to random conclusion with no leg work, no real investigation and not much of a fight anywhere. Camille cares more about her designer clothes and having sex and was just not a likable character.

Unfortunately, this was a big miss for me.