Still, it made for a decent read and I suspect that this writer will go on to some truly fabulous stuff. The premise could have been brillantly executed but, instead, was rather flat. The author's website claim that the book was put together in less than three months, which isn't impossible, but I suspect that it was done just a little too fast. One minute a male character's situation is irredeemable the next he has extricated himself in just a few sentences. Black swans falling dead at Liam’s funeral. Struggling in her grief, Jasmyn is beset by strange occurrences.
The protagonist, Jasmyn, has just lost her husband, Liam, after a cerebral aneurysm, a year into their marriage.
And there are no answers to some of the raised questions - why did one character die alongside another? How did that character go onto hold a position of power in the afterlife? Some of the plotting was just too glib. ‘Jasmyn’ by Alex Bell is a fairytale set in the modern world. 'Faeryland' and without a capital 'F'? Only a child would use that term and this is no child's book. Some of the novel also had really naive and childish undertones. The blurb is excellent and the premise is also very good, but there were a few plot holes that ranged from the minor (using up a phone's credit and then looking to use the phone again despite being in a foreign country and lacking an opportunity to buy more) to the absolutely massive (which, in order to avoid giving away the story, I will describe only as a complete lack of any sense of violation from a woman who has, in fact, been horribly - really horribly - abused).
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