I have mostly enjoyed Melissa Marr's Tales of Faerie, but "Fragile Eternity" was a bit of a disappointment. For one thing, "fragile eternity" is a perfect description for what it felt like to read this book. It seemed to take forever and it was a bit touch-and-go at times as to whether I would finish it. I've rated it with three stars, but would really give it two-and-a-half if I could. I finished the book, and I wanted to know how it would come out, but I was far from engrossed in the story along the way.
The book reads more like an unedited draft than a polished final product. At first I thought maybe it was because they'd rushed it into production, but as I read further, I began to think maybe the overwriting was to disguise the fact that nothing much happens in this book. It's really a short story padded out to make a full-length novel. We spend the first half of the book establishing the situation--REALLY establishing the situation. Lots of angst and yearning, lots of faeries spreading ice and sunshine, lots of dancing in the park--and nothing much else. YAWN. It isn't until the second half of the book that anything substantive happens and the story starts moving. Even then, the ending was far from satisfying, and despite the angst-y first half of the book, I didn't feel the author had done a good enough job showing us her characters. Seth, especially, feels vague and faceless, and Keenan and Aislinn are not as well-defined as they were in "Wicked Lovely."
I'm probably still interested enough to pick up the remaining books in this series, but I'm hoping they'll be better than this one.Get more detail about Fragile Eternity.
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