Alisi ☆ wants to read too many books ☆'s Reviews > Priceless

What's wrong with this is basically... the everything. I can't think of anything good about it.

Wait. I lied. There was two things: it's very, very short and it was action from start to finish.

You might be thinking that isn't bad. An action packed UF! Wow!

You should know, however, that 95% of the events in the book had nothing to do with the plot of the book. She's a tracker who tracks kids. She's given a kid to track but, right from the beginning, we learn this kid isn't in the "real world" so she goes to tell her computer savvy friend to find likely spots for where she is. And after that, it's just basically killing time until her friend calls her back.

The entire book is just one long time killer.

It could've still been interesting but for, well, the fact that this author is a HUGE believer in deus ex machina and conveniences. She doesn't get out of anything on her own. Every, single, freakin' time someone either saves her or there's a convenience that means it became way easier than the author told us it would be.

She also has a destiny, of which we are told by like 10 different characters. Over and over. And tri-colored eyes. Because two different colors are SO last year.

But on the subject of conveniences/ deus ex machina, this author is like... golden. Every would-be author should read this book to learn what not to do. It is the worst case of this I've ever read. Example:

Three harpies swoop to kill her. We're told they're ubber strong and she and her witchy friend barely managed to kill on a year ago. She literally kills the first in the first swing of the sword. It was a "lucky" hit. She gets in her car. She's in the middle of a desert but no problem. There just so happens to be a large herd of Unicorns, the natural enemies of harpies, that swoop in to save her from the second and she learns a special word to save her from the third.

She needs climbing gear to go down this mine so she and the guy goes out. Nonsense action, they come back, oh look -- the police following them are helpfully killed by harpy 3, the magical word works, and WOW! all the climbing gear and shit she needs is magically in the police vehicles! How convenient is that?!

It's like that the entire book. Utter bullshit from start to finish.