Nazish Reads

Hey everybody!

I read and finished this book on Friday, but I didn’t have time to post a review until now.

Release date: it says January 24, 2012 on the author’s website, but it says January 31 on netgalley. Which one’s right?
Publisher: Harlequin (Imprint: KimaniTRU)
Format: Ebook (ARC by Netgalley)
Age Group: Young Adults
Pages: 248 (238 not counting the title/cover page, copyright info, etc)
Source for Synopsis: goodreads
Challenge: (personal) 2012 Reading Challenge

You can’t move forward until you deal with the past…

Starting over is nothing new to diplomat’s daughter Lindsey Yi. She’s grown up changing schools the way other girls change clothes. Still, moving to Lincoln, Connecticut, is different. Although she’s still reeling from the loss of her parents in an accident, Lindsey is finally in a place that feels like home. Because here, Lindsey’s ability to read other people’s thoughts doesn’t make her weird. It makes her one of the Mystyx.

When Dylan Murphy—hot, popular and a senior—starts to notice her, things get serious, fast. But even as she’s figuring out how she really feels, the Mystyx realize that they’re not the only supernaturals in town. There are other gifted teens who have different motives. And they are hoping to get close enough to the Mystyx to convert them—and the world—to Darkness…

Some Quotes

There were some quotes I wanted to include, but I forgot to write them down, if I have lots of free time some day, I might look for some quotes and edit and include them here, since it’s an ebook, I couldn’t just flip through the pages (another reason why I hate ebooks, yet I still read them because the story seems interesting to me, which I’ve explained many times in some of my other reviews).

Review

This is the fourth book in the Mystyx series by Artist Arthur (is that really her name? Because it sounds like a pen name). I’m not sure if this is the last book, because after reading the end, I was disappointed at when the final fight happened, it seemed too easy to win, I was expecting something more to happened, for ex: like in all of the Harry Potter books, there is a big final fight; same all of the Vampire Academy books (although I havent read book 6 yet, don’t ask). At first, I thought that this was a standalone, until i read it, that is.

I’m going to try something different in reviews from now on (as I explained in my last review), so that it’ll help you decide if you want to read this book easier. I got this idea from TheBookVlogger on youtube. I’m not using all of the categories she used, just some. Give me ideas if there are some that you want to see.

Sex: No (just some making out scenes)
Gore: No (although there were some gross parts, but I read about a lot worse and I’ve seen a lot worse on tv shows and movies)
Magic: Yes

Romance: (This one’s kind of hard to rate/say) there is romance, but it didn’t seem very real to me, she barely knows the guy and she falls in love with him, there’s one line she said to Sasha, “I know that he’s cute and he likes me. That’s enough for now.” That idiot! That is a stupid answer, that isn’t nearly enough to know if a guy is dangerous or not, especially in the kind of world they live in, female protagonists like that annoy me so much. Anyways, it didn’t feel realistic to me, so I don’t know what to rate it.
Action: 3 stars (there is supposed to be a lot of action, but there’s not as much as I hoped)
Pacing: 3 stars (not much happened in the first certain amount of ages, it was kind of slow for me)
Plot: 3 stars (the book had the potential to be amazing, but it didn’t feel that way to me, I wasn’t satisfied when i finished this book)

The cover does not look like a Korean girl, considering how often she referred to her heritage in the book, It sounds like she looked a lot more Asian than this, or maybe it’s just me. Although, I do like that they showed the M mark on the cover on her leg, like they did with the other Mystyx.

A few of the things that I liked about this book was the plot/idea. I didn’t enjoy this book, there wasn’t as much action as you would expect from a book like this, which, as I said, is disappointing. Even though it’s the fourth book in the series, it’s not too confusing.

The story starts with Lindsey talking about her parents death and that she has to live in a big creepy house with a creepy old strict lady.

I didn’t like Lindsey Yi, she’s: boring, stupid (she trusts a guy and is madly in love with him just because he’s cute and likes her, that’s saying that a girl should date any guy that is good looking and likes her), etc. Yup, you guessed it, she’s not the type of female protagonist I like to read about. I thought that she and the story woud be more interesting from what I read on goodreads (the synopsis), but it ended up being the opposite. I wanted to strangle her, that’s how irritating she was (almost as bad as Bella from Twilight, but not as much, thank god).
I didn’t like Dylan either. If a guy like him suddenly came out of no where and said that he liked me, I would immediately think something suspicious was going on, especially in the world they live in. I mean, who cares if he’s popular and good looking, they never told us anything about his personality and he seemed a little controlling.

I found Lindsey and Dylan’s love boring, they’re too… I don’t know how to explain (it’s not my type of relationship, as I mentioned in my other reviews, the kind I like is the love and hate relationship, for ex: like in Kodocha, The Chicagoland Vampires, The Otherworld series: Book 1 Bitten, etc).

I found the evil creatures like something from old cartoons, as in silly, the big clawed creatures stomping, not something I’m used to reading. Don’t get me wrong, I love classical cartoons, but not in a book for young adults.

Their powers reminded me a little bit of the tv show Charmed. Krystal can see ghosts like all of the witches in Charmed can, Sasha can teleport like Paige, and astral project like Prue, Jake has the power of telekineses like Prue does, and Lindsey is an empath like Phoebe. That’s one of the reasons why I wanted to read this book so much. But Charmed is a lot better and more interesting.

I know this review sounds very negative, but if you want an honest review, then here it is, I tried to make this not sound mean, but it might get misinterpreted that way, no offense to anyone who likes this book.

Overall, I didn’t enjoy this book, I really wanted to, but I just didn’t.
Krystal and Jake’s stories sound like they’re the best stories out of the four (from what I read of the synopsis), but I still don’t plan on reading the first three anytime soon. If there are more books in this series next, then I’m probably going to pass on them.

If you want to read more reviews about this book, go to Goodreads and read the reviews in the comment section or go to other websites.

It was hard to rate this book, I ended up rating this book: 2.5 stars, but since I didn’t make any half stars pictures, I’m going give this book 3 stars.

If you read this book, then tell me what you thought about it and or the series. Tell me in the comments section.

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