Creatura (Creatura, #1) Review

2 stars!!! I am giving this book two stars, mainly, because I think the concept was really good and had the potential to be awesome but I just think the author is not experienced enough to carry it through. Thus, what could have been great turned into a giant mess of a novel. The story revolves around a seventeen year old girl named Isis Martin who is suffering from nightmares. In her dreams, she meets this creature and as a result, ends up falling quite ill from her insomnia. With the help of her psychiatrist, she is put on sleeping pills. This helps her to confront the demon in her dreams which she soon realises is a Greek deity and that she has been traveling to another realm. This sets off a confrontation where Isis claims he is not real, thus, he uses this contest as a way to prove her wrong. I found the MC Isis to be a real Mary Sue. Although, the author claims that she is really spunky and level headed, she isn't. She constantly makes the stupidest decisions and she has no real personality. Even her reason for not being in love with David is nonsensical and has no real bearing. As when push comes to shove, she just caves in to his advances towards the end of the book. David, on the other hand, is your usually "perfect guy". But he has a major flaw. For someone who is supposedly model-like (we are given this description all the time in the book), he is decidedly grandfather-ish. I found his formal tone of dialogue to be very clunky and not at all convincing. Some might think it romantic but it wasn't. Couldn't he be a deity who spoke like an everyday guy from the 21st Century? Plus, that would have made him swoonworthy. I wanted to get all these feels but I got none. Major disappointment there really. On top of this, I also felt that his character was depicted as being overly possessive and almost aggressive. A gentleman would never behave that way at all. Plus, his constant jealousy was nauseating. The minor characters were average, at best. Nothing to write home about. Many of the conversations sounded really formal and very old-fashioned. It was not in the context of the modern world or an urban setting. This made the writing very tedious and stilted. I also found that the plot twists were very cliched and were just used to create some drama but held no real significance to the story. The only thing I would say that was positive about the novel is the length and pacing. It was quite a quick read and doesn't drag at all. But overall, this book lacks real substance. At the end of the day, it is just a romance novel with some fantasy elements with no real action or major storyline. Will I be reading the next book? I hardly think so. I don't think I could stomach another sappy badly written love poem or conversation.

#youngadult #paranormal #mythology #NelyCab #romance #urbanfantasy