Reads like it was written by a teenage girl.
589963
I thought it was awkward and formulaic.
I would recommend it for (surprise) teenage girls and did not finish it.
3816460
I picked this book up and half way through it felt like I had read it before. After I found out it was written by a teenager I was no longer suprised by the poor dialogue. It felt very predicatable based on books I have already read. It was like Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings. I won't bother with the second book.
2405147
The other one-star review was so well-written that I had to check for myself.  I could see exactly what the other reviewer was talking about before I even finished the first paragraph.

This reads like a junior high school girl wrote it.  Overly descriptive phrases.  Incomplete sentences. Choppy sentence placement.  I felt like I needed Ritalin to even keep up with it.

Even as a freebie, this book isn't worth it.  I'll be deleting it from my Kindle library so that I don't accidentally try to read it in the future.
2948303
Definitely NOT an adult read. Good for young teenage girls as the dialogue is too filled with angst and self-doubt for a mature audience. And I really wish she would not repeat the same information over and over or even the same inner thoughts. Even young readers don't need that much repetition. If I were rating this for the audience at large, I would give it 3 stars. But, as a young adult book, it was fun and left me wondering if the main character would mature and grow into her power.
3598777
Most teen sci-fi these days can easily be consumed by adults and enjoyed thoroughly (Hunger Games, Ender's Game, etc).  But this one is definitely written for teens.  The sickly love story is so over the top only a teen could enjoy it.  How many times does the main character show love/emotion by saying "my cheeks warmed" or "my cheeks blushed" - I can't count but it almost made me put the book down.  Author, please expand your ability to describe emotion for you future teen books.  The ideas in the book are actually interesting but the author doesn't take them far enough.  I read the synopsis of the other two books and I won't be reading them.
911724
The book was about a female rockstar who has an accident which ruins her career. She meets a biker and gains a stalker at the same time. The book started out okay,  but the writing was kind of terrible. It was worded as if a high school student wrote it. There wasn't a lot of character development, and the ending was rushed.
4519801
This book would appeal to young teenage girls. I found it boring with a lot of gratuitous violence and weak plot. This is not destined to become a classic.
418816
I got this book because it was free and it sounded like it would be cute.  I did notice the main character was a teen but since I have read other young adult books (HP, Twilight, etc) I thought it'd be ok.  Well, let me just say I haven't even finished and don't know that I will.  It just drags on and on.  The girl repeats herself over and over and the "villian" seems a bit silly.  I just downloaded 12 Years a Slave so I'm thinking I'll be moving on and leaving this one unfinished.  Again, if I were a teenager I might fight this more compelling.  Would recommend for them, but not for adults.
3752013
Even though it's not labelled as such, this *must* be juvenile fiction.  The author's only other offerings here at Amazon are his "High School" series.  And this novella definitely reads like it's written for the 8-12 y.o. reader.  Not much to it, really.  No action, to speak of.  Lots of teen angst.  If I hadn't seen the picture and bio of the author, I would have guessed this was written by someone no older than the protagonist of the piece, a 16 year-old boy.

At any rate, I don't recommend it for adult fans of the PA genre.  There's very little action, some scavenging, some TEOTWAKI house-hunting, some poorly done interpersonal drama, a great deal of painfully simple narrative, and the story is based on an unbelievable SHTF scenario that "middle eastern" countries managed to set off neutron bombs all over the industrialized Western countries.

/facepalm
4588863
Flavia Bujor, the author of this book, is a somewhat dorky  French girl who one day decided, 'Hey, why don't I publish a book at the age of 14?! Wouldn't that be the coolest thing??'

Well, it wasn't. Though the main plot was fast-moving and action -packed, it was just simply not well-written. She was only about 13 or 14 when she wrote it, so I suppose it's understandable, but I'm a bit surprised that the publishing company accepted it at such a young age. If she wrote it again when she was about 20 or so, i can almost guarantee that it would be much better. It was almost like everything went TOO fast. The battle scenes were horrible, and the heroines, Jade, Opal, and Amber, were fake and were made to seem invincible. Like Opal*********(don't wanna tell you in case you read it!) and then she 'coincidentally' did not die because ********* There was no death or even any sadness besides a few tears shed for weird reasons, making it totally unrealistic. The whole book was Bujor's own little happy fairy tale. At least 'Eragon', the book written by another young author, was somewhat realistic.  However, my least favorite part was the 'love' (if I could even call it that!) scenes. Both Amber and Opal fell in love. The book said, 'She stared openly at ******'s face. And then it came to her: she understood, she knew, that she was made to love those grey-green eyes.' Then for Amber, 'Then his eyes met Amber's: they looked at each other, and immediately understood. They felt as if they had always known each other, as if they had lived only in the expectation of finding each other again someday.'  I mean, there's love at first sight, but this is going too far! Like I said, the main story was interesting, but the writing was either unrealistic or borrowed from other books(Lord of the Rings being the main one).

The story was  about three girls, Jade, Opal, and Amber, who one day found out that they are in the Prophecy, the girls who have a Gift and will one day save the magical land called Fairytale.  They each have a powerful stone that seems like it will be doing most of the work for them and is a great part in this story, as it is suggested. However, that is not the case.  Despite this story being called, 'The prophecy of the Stones' they only end up actually doing something with the stones about three times, and to make it even more pathetic, the stupid things didn't even really do anything!!!  I suppose you could read this book, um, to, um, encourage you to write?  If you like having the actual makeup of the story be really good more then the plot line, I suggest you wait for Flavia's next book, at a more mature age.
551158
Very poorly written, repetitive, I truly thought after I began to read it, that it was written by a teenager.
1717090
My teen did not enjoy reading this book. I think it was a flop.
1835621
I read a lot of YA and this is like the teenage version of a vampire romance. Angels, danger, sexy sexiness without sex. Meh.
3270569
The story line is interesting but unfortunately the writing, especially the dialog, is very juvenile. If not for the sex scenes this could have been a YA book. I felt like I was reading a book for teenagers. I wish I could find a paranormal series for adults!
4737277
Reads like it was written by a cocky junior high school student. Utterly stupid. I usually finish books even when they are pretty lame, but couldn't stomach this one.
158894
This book feels as if a love struck tween mashed up her very favorite fairy tales in one long journal entry. The writing is quite poor, and the heroine is a simpleton.

Do not waste your time.
35300
SPOILER ALERT.....but the writing is a little trite - sort of 'girl sees crime,' detective solves crime,' girl falls for detective.'