Finished this book in four hours of solid reading, but there was a great deal of page turning / skimming. I will start off with the positives by saying that the story is over all very enjoyable. The characters are fun, and the dialogue had me laughing at several parts. I do think that the majority of the smiles were owed to Mr. Squibbles, who is a supporting character. The world is well constructed and described without hitting you in the face with long descriptive paragraphs. Now on to the not so positives. I did keep getting the feeling as if I had read the story before, even though I know for sure I haven't. There are also some editing issues with the book, including dialogue sequences where it was hard to tell who was saying what or where dialogue was attributed obviously to the wrong speaker. There were some repeated lines / descriptions and typos. I think a touch by an editor would really help the story. The negatives for this book are all in the second half where it started to drag and slip back into the mundane a bit. I also had some issues with the ending and the concept behind it, but that is a personal groan and was not counted towards the 3 stars given. If the editing had been better, I would have given it 4 stars.
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Very unique paranormal/fantasy tale. ( )

Very unique paranormal/fantasy tale. ( )