[ Three stars! ] I started this book thinking that, 'oh! This book should be good, coming from everything that I heard from my friends!' Nope. Made me so angry. So before you read this review or even this book I might advise you that you are 11+ years old and are okay with extreme violence, unrealistic descriptions, illogical actions, and bad writing. I'll start with that the pacing was WAAY too sped up. I'll take one chapter ( chapter 16 ) where they went from arguing to getting attacked by wolves to shooting off a cliff in a mine cart to being alive to getting captured to breaking a magical artifact to escaping to getting attacked again to shooting off another cliff. With no injuries whatsover. They shoot off a cliff and don't even have a scratch? I wonder if a secret fairy godmother is cheating the rules of magic and making these twins survive all of these cliffs. Doesn't build up suspense, too repetitive and * cough * * cough * what does "The trees got friendlier as they walked" mean? No other context. Alex doesn't portray the character she's supposed to be, being extremely illogical in certain cases and also personality swaying from one side to another. The book doesn't capture physics because in many cases that I saw it was extremly unrealistic. Nobody can physically catch a sword without the tip dragging down or staggering and an arrow can't just bounce off a wall and kill somebody. It doesn't take the impact in, too repetitive in phrases and has some sexist and racist quotes in it. First of all servants can be boys too, not just maids and Conner SHOULD find a servant's clothing and maids can wear other things than dresses. And then when Goldilocks kills a bunch of wolves Conner runs out, not permenantly stained by all of that violence and says, "that was good for a GIRL and a horse!" Then sexist quotes. Conner calls the huntress a jungle woman based off her clothing which is leaves which I find very offensive and then they use the term, "Siamese twins" instead of conjoined twins. Overall this book was intruiging, brilliant descriptions and portrays "Some" of the characters perspectives very well and sometimes slacking on the descriptions ( * cough * "Friendly trees" * cough * ) Three stars is rather good for me as it means, "Fine." Four stars means, "Good." Five stars means, "PERFECT." Two stars means, "Meh." One stars means "I'm never reading this again." I'm excited for the next book and to see what illogical things the characters do!
