Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I don't think I have ever given a book one star before. I don't like to be a person who says something if she doesn't have anything positive to say, but I would really like to give this author a little feedback. I thought this story would be very interesting. I am a fan of YA fantasy, and I'm also a fan of supporting Indie writers. I figured, the woman minored in Celtic Mythology. Who doesn't love Lugh and the Morrigan? This will be fun. Unfortunately, I was wrong. When I was about fifteen percent of the way into this book, I thought, okay, sweetheart, I see what you're doing here. Your awkward girl protagonist is going to find out she's a fairy and fall in love with a hot fairy boy. Tight. I've read it before, but as a fantasy fan and former awkward girl myself, it never gets old. Let's do this. Instead, she went on for page after page about doing her homework and washing the dishes. We got a whole chapter about her friends, none of whom have anything to do with the actual story. Thought I to myself, pacing problems, girl. This book took four chapters to do what it should have done in one. Did I need to see our heroine getting picked on by a cheerleader? Ugh. No. But I figured, this is going to get good anytime. Any time now. Okay, any time... The book seriously ended with what should have been the first major plot point. The hero and the heroine have no real connection at all, besides that she thinks he's hot. And because the book was so much filler for the sequel (God, I hope something happens in the sequel, though the previews indicate more of the same) it ended with the protagonist getting messed up due to her stupidity and inability to follow directions and the hero having to rescue her even though he explicitly told her what not to do. It was not sweet and endearing. It made her seem weak, so weak as to be a little offensive. But here was the worst part: I feel like she stretched her intro into a whole book as a business strategy. She wanted to give away the first volume, a la Amanda Hawking, but she didn't want to actually give anything away. It's almost as if she is saying, you want plot? Pay me for plot. The thing is, I would pay for plot. I do all the time. I wish she had just been honest and sold me a book where things happen. I feel cheated, and I do not intend to pick up the sequel.