The characters, story-building, writing style, and every other thing about this book was just so bad. And I'm talking totally repulsive. As in absolute, ten-out-of-ten, come-out-on-top quality junk.
I'll start with the characters.
Mare- where do I even begin with this woman (girl? I really don't know). She was so whiny. I could not stand her at all; so much that I was tempted to shut the book and run away every time one of the chapters with her point-of-view started. And the worst part is, the chapters having her POV were probably the best ones from the whole series (more on that later).
She was so indecisive, she couldn't even make up her mind about whether she liked this guy called Cal or not and that was okay and all until they started breaking up and getting back together like two dozen times in each book. And there were four books. Yeah, you can do the math. I had to suffer through about a hundred of their break-ups and just as many patch-ups. Boring much? You bet it was.
And it was so annoying how the "Little Lightning Girl" was liked by each and every person who met her, if not at first sight, then eventually. I personally found not a single quality of hers likable. Perhaps it was her oh-so-selfless attitude, how she wasn't even willing to use up a tiny bit of her great "electricon" powers to take down a few bomber planes that would otherwise kill thousands. Or maybe it was how she was so humble, always wallowing in self-pity and thinking that she deserved the world for her troubles- forcing innocent people to join her lost cause and sending them on death missions from the safety of her cave or wherever she lived when she wasn't home at Sticks or Sills or Stilts or wherever. Then it must have been the pleasant way she treated people, ignoring her childhood best friend, even after he did so much for her, just because he did not have powers, constantly breaking up with Cal (how many ever times I mention this, it won't be enough), being rude to anyone and everyone who tried to help, and in short being the absolute epitome of horridness. Idiotic hypocrite. I hate her so much.
I could go on and on about how much I hate Mare but I think you get my point and she doesn't deserve so much of our attention anyway.
Cal was another horrible hunk of a man, Maven seemed sensible enough except for the fact that he was in love with Mare (like seriously, who wasn't?) and the fact that HE WAS THE VILLAIN SO HE DIED. Evangeline, Cameron, and Iris were added for just more unnecessary points of view. The Iris parts were the most boring things ever, closely followed by those of Cameron (who initially hated Mare but, like everyone else, eventually crossed over to the dark side) and then Evangeline's, which, yes, makes Whiny Mare the Annoying Little Lightning Girl the most "enjoyable" read.
The writing style was moderate at best, exceedingly repetitive, boring, and with long descriptions, which were okay, except that they were long. And boring. And trash.
The ending was so stupid. It was as if the author couldn't decide how to end the series so she decided to randomly kill the villain, leave Mare and Cal's "relationship" hanging, have neither monarchy nor democracy in whatever their country was called, leaving their land with neither a Red Queen nor a Silver King, and basically rendering the entire series useless.
I think I might've liked this series better if it had been shorter. Maybe a trilogy. Or a single book. Or "Mare is born. She discovers she has powers. Falls in love with Cal *100. Hates Cal *100. End of story."
Or maybe if it hadn't existed at all.
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