The Three

Meh. I expected more from this book too. I feel like I'd read some good things about it, and the premise was interesting. But once I realized it was a gimmick book, I lost heart. I actually DID finish this one, but it was rough. It was rather dull in parts. And I found it to be vague. As in, she didn't really seem to commit to what sort of creature she wanted to have here. And not in a good way. And the way the epistolary chapters are set up make the storytelling seem far too passive to be engaging. I wasn't interested in most of the action, and I certainly wasn't interested in most of the characters. I didn't feel as though I really could get attached to any of them because of the way she chose to tell her story. I wanted to like this book. And I wanted to like the fact that I was basically reading Elspeth's book IN this book. But it didn't work. Especially given the timeline of the novel, and how certain things have NOT happened, it made this book just a bit hard to believe. She has potential, but this book is certainly not the culmination of that potential. It was perhaps a bit too ambitious an undertaking.