The Crystal Princess by Kimberly Norton (Review + Giveaway)

 

The Crystal Princess was a book of 121 pages and a very beautiful cover. The book was sent to me by the author, but this review is by no means biased.

• Since the book was so small and I knew it must have been self-published, I literally counted the errors I found. Let's just say there was more than enough, almost in every chapter. If you read my reviews, you know this is a very big deal to me. However, in this book, this was not my biggest concern.
• The story was beautiful as with the cover. However, I felt like the dialogues were awkward and forced. I thought the use of exclamation marks were sometimes unnecessary, throwing me off on the character's real emotion.
• Given that the book was short, I felt the characters weren't as developed. From what I've learned from attending writing workshops, the book seemed to tell more of the story as opposed to showing it.

The story itself... (SPOILER ALERT)

Kelly was abducted before her 18th birthday by her real family. She found that every single person that knew her had their memories erased. She also found that she was a powerful witch with two sisters. The goal of the story was to get them to become immortal on All Saints Day.

Along the way, she fell in love with an Indian boy named Max or also known as White Bear. I thought their relationship was absolutely amazing/romantic. I think if given a chance, I would love to see more of the development of their relationship.

Finally, I truly enjoyed Kelly's powers. I would have loved to have seen more scenes of her using crystals to protect the ones she loved.

Overall, I think the idea of this book is very interesting. It would be great to read to young readers. I hope it could be developed into a full novel one day :)

Check out my favorite scene and quote :)

Kelly's adopted parents: "Kelly, hurry. Get up; the house is on fire, we have to get out."
Still half asleep, I ran out the front door. Parked in the driveway was the Mustang with a huge bow on it. I screamed by head off for an hour. Then I hugged them both, telling them thank you and how much I loved it. God, parents are nuts sometimes.

"Don't worry; this is something I can handle. I am the crystal princess."

Kimberly generously sent me an extra book to give away to all of you. The book is SIGNED with a personalized message from her :) Just fill out the form to enter.