Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Marked Son By Shea Berkley

The Marked SonThe Marked Son by Shea Berkley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


My thoughts:

Cover: I absolutely like this cover.WATS NOT THE LIKE A BOUTH IT? A couple of YA Fiction covers are hideous , or the cover is the best thing about that book, meaning it sucked. Not this one the cover added to the book, you could see Dylan ,that the way I imagined him. The cover draws you in because it is a picture of a guy with piercing violet blue eyes staring into your soul. When I first saw the cover I was happy that it was on netgalley and I requested it. I got approved. So here I go

Book:

Ok it took a longer time reading it than expected. Normally it takes two –four days to read a book. Been busy with school stuff.

the very beginning really interested me in reading the whole book. When he is dumped by his deadbeat mom, at his grandparents after an absence of 17 years, the story really begins. This is after the prologue . At the ranch or farm things start to happen !! He sees his “ ghost ’’,Kera who appeared in dreams his whole life. Some less vivid than others. And he discovers she is from a other dimension, Taeg. A place still in the middle ages, looks like earth but different



I got to say the creapy creatures are cool, really cool. I encountered more than three species in the book . The poisonous Milispit(slimy half lizard creatures with broken looking wings) and the vindictive Pux( small fairy beings that have razor like parts of their body)

I liked Dylan from the very start, he is brave, he caring, just all round nice guy with a troubled past, the person he knew the longest in his life dumped him, his mom. Later on you find out why she is like she is. But I had no caring feelings for her, more mad and pissed

Kera , I did not like her that very much in the beginning. Boy I was wrong love her now, she has spunk, she comes up for what she believes in, helpful. They meet in the 2/3 of the story . Her chapters are in 3th person narrative , and Dylan’s chapters were in 1st person. I had to adjust at first that the reason I did not like Kera at first. I was happy their romance was not insta-love. Actually they met before and became friends in their dreams, a bit creepy but cool. And it was not vomiting like I did when I read the romance development, ps hate twilight I puked mentally

The secondary characters really added to the story, grandma and pa, Jason and Theo who became friends of Dylan . The dialog between them was very funny



I never thought I could get emotionally attached. I yelled, that can’t happened to them.

My favorite quote on the last page 286, received a netgalley arc

I sigh and my dream fades,replaced by the light of love shining from kera's eyes.

my dream girl is real

I don't have to be alone anymore






That 3 sentences made me longing for book 2. And a coupple questions were answered at the end and a coupple questions came into excistence in the end.

5 comments:

  1. I passed over this on netgalley, but your review makes me think that might've been a mistake! Glad you ended up liking it so well!

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  2. it is really good, saw bookcovers 2 and 3 there awsume. bookcover 3 is my fav

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  3. I hadn't picked this one up, but it sounds really good. I will have to read it!

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  4. Loved your review! I really enjoyed this book as well and can't wait to see what happens in the next installment!

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  5. Great in depth review. Now I want to put it on my wishlist!

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