Mistwood: Short Review

The Shifter is an immortal creature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats to the Mistwood. But when she is needed she always comes.

Isabel remembers nothing. Nothing before the prince rode into her forest to take her back to the castle. Nothing about who she is supposed to be, or the powers she is supposed to have.
Prince Rokan needs Isabel to be his Shifter. He needs her ability to shift to animal form, to wind, to mist. He needs her lethal speed and superhuman strength. And he needs her loyalty—because without it, she may be his greatest threat.
Isabel knows that her prince is lying to her, but she can’t help wanting to protect him from the dangers and intrigues of the court . . . until a deadly truth shatters the bond between them.
Now Isabel faces a choice that threatens her loyalty, her heart . . . and everything she thought she knew.

My Thoughts:
The beginning of this book had a lot of promise. The first several pages introduce us to a soon to be King who has come to Mistwood to ask the assistance of The Shifter. The beginning sounded beautiful and I thought I was going to have this great historical setting with a paranormal twist.

As the pages that I finished keep climbing my interest kept going down. I felt that I could not connect with any of the characters and there was only one character I sorta liked. The style of writing just felt awkward and underdeveloped. The main character, Isabel, often refers to herself in the mode of “the Shifter” and as the shifter what she can and can not do. She struggles with her human emotions and always just states the same pathetic line “this is not what the shifter would do”. Well since she can’t remember what the shifter can and can not do the whole sentence/declaration is pointless. Plus in my opinion let Prince Rokan die for all I care, the man has some serious issues, along with his horrible sister.

Overall I couldn’t connect with any of these characters and the only person I enjoyed was killed off half way through the book. Anyone wanna take a guess at where I stopped in this book? Yep, my favorite character is now dead and so the book died at that instant for me (this is a trend for me in some ways, I did this with the Thirst Series). Between the awkward writing style and boring characters I found very little interest, I couldn’t finish this book so it only gets one heart from me.