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Gateway (2014)

by Christina Garner(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

series

The Gateway Trilogy

review 1: This book had promise, but came up short.First, it felt a lot like a Cassandra Clare knock off. Young girl who doesn't know of her origin is really part demon??? She's taken to a school to be trained to fight demons? Sound familiar?Second, the book needed a good editor. There were numerous missing words, added words, and some punctuation mistakes. The story felt choppy and in places I was totally lost . . . asking what just happened? Why do I not know who is speaking?Thirdly, all the characters sounded exactly the same. Seriously, names were interchangable - it didn't really matter who said what because everyone had the same voice.(with the exception of the bipolar mom, she had some personality)Fourthly, the romance was about as steamy as a wet rag. There was no chemistr... morey between Ember and Taren (Although I did like his name).Garner needed some guidance on this one. There were good moments, but not enough to sustain the novel, let alone a trilogy. She may have some talent, but it's still in it's baby stages.Save your $3 on Nook, and put it toward a Clare book. That's my recommendation!
review 2: Overall a good begining for a story. It definitely could have used help from an editor as there were several typos and a few inconsistencies. For example, she ends up at the school with presumably no clothes seeing as the way she left things at the mental institution and having to borrow clothes from Kat, and yet there's suddenly a sentence about slipping into clothes she bought from a thrift shop. Uh okay, when did she visit this thrift shop? There was no other mention so as the reader I just feel like they just kind of appeared out of thin air. Nit-picky? Probably. Annoying? Definitely.Other than that, even with a Mortal Instruments feel, the story was somewhat original and definitely kept me reading. Which is saying something lately. There bits that I was a little unclear on, mostly at the end. But overall a decent story, especially considering how much happened in so few pages. Definitely obvious this is an Indie author, but overall one of the better Indie stories I've read. less

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