Review: Faelorehn by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson

Faelorehn

Author: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Series: The Otherworld #1
Publisher: Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Genre: YA Fantasy
Format: ebook
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Source: ebook received from author via Netgalley
Rating: 2 Stars
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***I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This has in no way changed my opinion of the book. The review below is my open and honest opinion.*** 

Synopsis from Goodreads:

I never heard him come after me and even as I climbed the slope and stumbled onto our shaded back lawn, I didn’t look back. It was like the day the gnomes chased me all over again, but this time I was not escaping some horrible little creatures, I was fleeing from an incredibly good-looking guy who could very well understand me completely. I was either saving myself from that serial killer I always imagined lived down in the swamp, or I had finally gone over the deep end . . .

Meghan Elam has been strange her entire life: her eyes have this odd habit of changing color and she sees and hears things no one else does. When the visions and voices in her head start to get worse, she is convinced that her parents will want to drag her off to another psychiatrist. That is, until the mysterious Cade MacRoich shows up out of nowhere with an explanation of his own.

Cade brings her news of another realm where goblins and gnomes are the norm, a place where whispering spirits exist in the very earth, and a world where Meghan just might find the answers she has always sought.

My Review:

This book started off really well. The world-building was well done and interesting. I was engrossed in the story. I wanted to know more about who Meghan was and what all her visions and the voices she heard meant. But then the book started to go downhill when she met Cade, a gorgeous guy who begins to teach her about who she really is.

Well, Meghan quickly falls in love with this guy. There’s where the problems started. Insta-love. Annoying. Then, Meghan starts making some really really stupid decisions which went completely against her character. She started off smart, unique, and strong in her own way. So when she started making blind decisions because she was “in love” with this guy it just made me angry. That wasn’t her at all. The Meghan that I met at the beginning of the book would never have fallen for the stuff the Meghan at the end of the book had.

In addition to this, the excitement just petered out for me. At first I was super interested in what was going on, but then the plot seemed to slow down and I found myself skimming because I was bored. Such a disappointment since it started off so well. I will say that the world-building was pretty fantastic. There was lots of cool information about the “Otherworld” and the creatures that lived there. I was interested in that aspect, but unfortunately the rest of the story lacked. I probably won’t be continuing on with this series. Happy reading all!

Have you read this one? What did you think? What did you think of the world? What about the characters especially Meghan and Cade?