Thursday 25 July 2013

Beautiful Experiment, Book One - Island of Defiance Trilogy Book Review

Author: January Valentine
Date of Publication: June 1, 2013 (Kindle)
Publisher: Water Forest Press
Pages: 332
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Paperback or Kindle: Both


Fiery Fantasy Thoughts

Brook is a 17 year old boy who knows nothing apart from being on this island and helping his ‘Father’ deal with the shipment of ‘Waywards’ that would come to the island for rehabilitation.

As the ‘Waywards’ come and go, Brook gets used to listening to his ‘Fathers’ ways on life until he starts to approach his eighteen birthday and a new set of ‘Waywards’ are delivered to the island, who arrive with more than bad attitudes and the desire to escape…

I personally found the beginning of the book to be a little slow as we are shown ‘Father’s’ personality in detail and we are introduced to each ‘Wayward’, along with their annoying, obnoxious ways.

There is a lot of dialogue between the characters (especially the ‘Waywards’), at the start, which leads us from the beach shore (where they depart the boat) to the showers and although I understood that the dialogue helped establish each character’s insufferable personalities, I felt it went on for a little bit too long as nothing was really happening.

My favourite character as to be Brook and I loved his tormented personality. Although he listened to ‘Father’ out of respect for him, he could not brush off that there was something more to the island (and himself) when the noises started to get into his head and his appearance began to change…

There was a realistic build up to the cute romance with winy Gabriella and she opens his eyes that ‘Father’ may not be as honest as he seems.

I was slightly thrown by the consistency of some areas of the storyline, e.g. the introduction to the ‘Waywards’ was long and detailed but there was a very short dialogue between ‘Father’ and Brook about where his mother is. Something so serious and emotional needed a little more anguish I thought, as Brook seemed to accept it immediately.


If you are looking for a book which has strong characters and slow building fantasy mystery - then I would recommend this book for you!







3.5 wings means that although I wasn't lost in the story, I was bitten by a cute vampire and am now going through a slow change! lol

Eva

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