I like the writing, but not the heroine

Jade is a very sweet girl, if not overly bright (to which she admits). She is also a complete pushover and accepts blame and punishments that she does not deserve, yet never assigns any to the people or circumstances around her, who manipulate her like a puppet. It is very hard to respect a pretty doll with no backbone. Her male interests are not endearing in any way yet, but it is still early in the series and they have not really had a chance to show a personality (beside overbearing and obnoxious). In other words, I don’t like a single character so far.
The writing is good, although the world building is very basic: hidden supernaturals - enough said. The mystery is so blatant from the start, that I was sure I had to be wrong and was hoping for a twist (nope).

Wow… that sounded quite negative. In summary: it is an OK start to a series. I am sufficiently entertained to try the sequel, but if Jade doesn’t start to stand up for herself in the next book, I won’t continue. Since this series has such good reviews, I assume it gets better.

The narrator was the best thing about this book and I will look for more works featuring her.

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