![]() ![]() One minute a male character's situation is irredeemable the next he has extricated himself in just a few sentences. And there are no answers to some of the raised questions - why did one character die alongside another? How did that character go onto hold a position of power in the afterlife? Some of the plotting was just too glib. 'Faeryland' and without a capital 'F'? Only a child would use that term and this is no child's book. ![]() Some of the novel also had really naive and childish undertones. The blurb is excellent and the premise is also very good, but there were a few plot holes that ranged from the minor (using up a phone's credit and then looking to use the phone again despite being in a foreign country and lacking an opportunity to buy more) to the absolutely massive (which, in order to avoid giving away the story, I will describe only as a complete lack of any sense of violation from a woman who has, in fact, been horribly - really horribly - abused). ![]()
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