Strange Fates

Strange Fates
By: Marlene Perez
Genre: YA



Publishers Summary:

The first in a line of three exciting new urban fantasy novels blending elements of Greek myth and forbidden romance against the backdrop of Minnesota's magical underworld.

Brooding, leather jacket-wearing Nyx Fortuna looks like a 20-something, and has for centuries now. As the son of the forgotten fourth Fate, Lady Fortuna, he has been hunted his entire life by the three Sisters of Fate that murdered his mother.

Fed up and out for revenge, Nyx comes to Minneapolis following a tip that his aunts have set up a business there. His goal to bring down his mother's killers and retrieve the thread of fate that has trapped him in the body of a twenty year old unable to age or die.

But when a chance meeting with the mysterious, dangerous and very mortal Elizabeth Abernathy throws off his plans, he must reconcile his humanity and his immortality.

My Review:

I received this book for an honest review from the publishers and I'll do just that, by stating that while the premise of the book interested me; the constant repeating of the same information became annoying and being forced to re-read several lines of the same stated fact was tedious to say the least. Nyx is an interesting character from the start, but his lack of maturity is surprising for someone his age. I wondered several times if his mind stopped developing the same time his body stopped aging.

The writing was very chopping and nothing flowed well, save for a few spare moments. There was just too much repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition...see what I mean. We didn't need to know every two sentences that his aunts are the Fates and his mother is dead and it's hard to think about her, but I'm going to anyway. Another thing that rankled me was, if his mother is Lady Luck why is the world did he have such a hard time finding the charms? He says this several times (there's that repetition, repetition, repetition) through the story but then suddenly finding them becomes increasingly easier with each go.

I really wanted to like this book, I really did, but it wasn't up my alley.