Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't normaly write reviews, but this book really made me want to write one. I don't know if I read a different copy of this book than everyone else did because for the life of me, I can't figure out why it has so many 4 and 5-star reviews. I was highly disappointed. First off, the book is way too long and the writing style is choppy. For some reason reading this book really annoyed me and I ended up with a massive headache (and the urge to throw my kindle out of a window) trying to read through it. I love a detailed and descriptive story, but there is way too much excessive and unnecessary information and detail in this book. I read through 535 pages of a whole lot of nothing. The book dragged on endlessly and took forever to reveal anything and to just get to the meat of the story. There is a whole lot of "telling me instead of showing me" (which can really make a book drag on) going on and it all seems to just get forcefully shoved down my throat. Also, the majority of the plot points were very predictable--like who her father was--and when the truth was finally revealed 300 pages later, all I wanted to do was scream No Crap! at the top of my lungs and bang my head against the wall. The writing and a lot of the things that happened like the fight scenes and characters' reactions were very repetitive, which should have been a sign that the book was getting too long. It took forever to get to the whole romance aspect of the story between Myla and the prince. I am not a fan of the insta-love that is so common in YA novels and this book is rife with it. I was wondering if they were ever going to get to the romance and love that's mentioned in the summary because Myla and the Prince hated each other immensely for about half of the book, and then BAM! Insta-love, which I hate with a passion. It happened so instantaneously that I had to go back and reread some of the pages that I skimmed through (which I did a lot of with this book) to see if I missed anything (which I didn't). With all of the pages in this book, the love aspect could have been introduced earlier and slowly built up to instead of how abruptly it occured. I don't think I liked any of the characters in this book (except for maybe Walker). I particularly couldn't stand Myla. From my comprehension of the description, she was supposed to be this super hardcore and unbeatable fighter that was self-sufficient and could stand on her own two feet and was highly opinionated and was no-one's pushover, but she was constantly being manipulated and pushed around and into situations she didn't want to be in by her "bestfriend", and it seemed like she would have died a long time ago during one of her fights if her tail didn't have a mind of it's own and intervened to save her (reference fight with evil soul that wanted a weapon to fight with). And to be such a great fighter she sure does freak out alot when it comes to non-hand-to-hand combat. I just had a hard time connecting to any of the characters or believing (or even caring about) the connection between any of them or their relationships. All of the relationships and conversations between the characters seemed forced and contrived, and just overall very awkward. There were also a lot of character reactions and situations in the book that were just ridiculous. For instance when Myla walks in on her mom crying with the robe in her hands and her mom gets upset because Myla doesn't know the importance of the robe and refuses to answer her questions. What in the world?! Why is she upset about Myla's ignorance, when she refuses to talk about anything from her past? Myla isn't psychic or a time traveller or a mind reader. I definitely did a lot of eye-rolling while reading through this book.