Awakening

Lots and lots of cliches. From the ridiculous love triangle to the clueless teen who finds out she has a mysterious family/past to the underdeveloped stereotypical cast of supporting characters. On top of that our heroine, Lexi has some sort of massive guilt complex that causes her to blame herself for everything that happens to every other person out there.

At times the writing was ok and even flowed fairly well, but those times only showed up in small amounts. Otherwise, there was too much exposition (remember it's always better to show not tell), too much repetition (does anyone actually say his/her eye color is aquamarine?) and too much silly, stilted dialogue (no one talks like that).

Gave it 2 stars because oddly - and I can't believe I'm saying this - there's a tiny part of me that wants to read book 2. Not sure if it's because the sarcastic portion of my brain wants to come out and play some more or if it's because I want to see if the author can pull off the big confrontation between Lexi and one of her potential love interests that should have appeared near the end of book 1.