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*************************************************MINOR SPOILERS************************************************************* I was actually pretty excited to read this book. I was like, "Wow..free book, and it's rated really high." I thought I'd gotten lucky. Silly me. I want to say that there is a good story in here somewhere. The idea that big foot is a guardian to another realm is actually kind of cool, and I usually don't buy into all the big foot stuff, but I thought that was a neat idea. That's actually the only good thing I can say about this book. If a book catches my attention, I can read it in a day or less. I'm on day 3 with this book, and I'm not even going to finish. This book is just not written well. The characters are flat, the dialogue is redundant. There's never really any place that the writer takes a minute to describe the surroundings, or really describe anything or anyone for that matter. Oh, besides the king. Yeah, yeah, got it; he's uber-sexy. Move on, please. There's another review on here that uses the word "convenient" to describe some of the things happening in the book, and that's one of the biggest problems. Things are just too convenient at times. It takes the main characters no time to accept that they've gone through a portal into another dimension, because, of course, this had been a theory of Sarah's for years that big foot disappears into portals, but NO WAY are they going to believe that this ring has made Sarah immortal. Nope, no way, no how, not going to believe it, even after she gets stabbed through the heart and lives. There's still this like, "I don't know. I can believe that big foot and other dimensions are real, but people living forever? No, that's too much." Give me a break. The thing that did it for me is at the beginning of the book you get this little story about when Sarah and her sister were kids camping, and big foot scares the crap out of Sarah, and her OLDER sister disappears from this cave blah, blah, blah. Later on in the book, after they've realized that Sarah's sister is probably in this dimension, they're in a church, and Sarah has this "woe is me" moment about that day, and she starts talking about her LITTLE sister disappearing from this cave, and I just put it down. I went back and verified that it should have actually been older sister, but after that it lost me. I can forgive a lot of stuff. I'm not big about spelling or punctuation, because that just happens. Sometimes you just miss those mistakes, but an inaccuracy like that just irks me. From one writer to another, that makes me feel like you don't know anything about your characters, and if you don't know anything about your characters how on earth are you going to tell me a story about these people. Which is pretty much what this book felt like. It felt like someone's friend's brother's cousin's uncle is telling this story. There's just no connection with the characters at all. Like I said, there could be a good story here, but it needs to be polished. A lot. It's a fascinating and original idea, but the execution of the idea just falls flat. I'm actually pretty confident in saying that the people that gave this book 4 and 5 stars are probably friends of the author, because I'm just not buying that anyone who is an avid read would think so highly of this book. Find another book to read.