Kill Me Softly

Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Kill Me Softly started really strong and intriguing. I was immediately drawn to Mira from the beginning. I started seeing the correlations between the different characters and the fairy tales I thought they embodied. This book is an amazing take on fairy tales and making them fit into our modern life. Warning: this book is NOT the Disney-fied fairy tales, but rather, Brother Grimm's sort of thing. It was amazing, pure genius, and absolutely mesmerizing.

First off, the characters are fleshed out very well. Everybody is extremely likable, especially Blue (in the beginning), Freddie, and Viv. Well, everybody. These teenagers had a very funny way to view life and their fate. They even had spare time to joke about it! And Mira was all new to this and very confused. I loved her boldness to leave everything behind and search for what she was looking for: who she was in this world.

Beau Rivage was spooky, with all these fairy tale characters walking about. I loved Cross' interpretation of fairy tales and how she adapted it in the real world. Very original!

Even though I liked this book, enough to give it a five, I cannot. There are some things that knocked some stars down:

1. There is no conclusion to many of the major questions that are bugging my mind and I cannot seem to NOT MIND IT!
* First of all, Mira's whole trip to Beau Rivage was to become acquainted with the place she was born, to find her parents' tomb. Felix helped her. Her parents are not dead. Her fairy godmothers confessed they were not dead. And yet, we get no conclusion with this little issue. I really want to know where the parents are, how they are. I don't want a promise that Mira will meet them, but she already has a home.

* Freddie. Poor Freddie. I feel very sorry for him. Especially the way Mira treats him. He kissed her, he gave her back life, he is her prince in her fairy tale. Okay, first in my defense, I do believe in the "not everything is fate, you can overcome fate" shit. I do believe in it. However, Mira is being a bit unfair to Freddie when she's off with Blue (now with his curse softened) kissing him and whatnot. I don't think Freddie would be stupid enough not to notice that Mira loves Blue. And I hope Blue is not enough of a jerk to hurt his best friend.

*Blue. Oh Blue, I really enjoyed your character in the beginning of the book. Why did you had to fall in love with Mira.

*Felix. Okay, Felix leaves nothing undone. Then, where the hell is he. Just when I thought that Felix would want revenge because Mira's curse fell on her, hence he had undone business, the book ends. No conclusion to Felix either!

2. Oh goodness, I had high expectation for this book, especially when it was off with a GREAT start! I was really afraid that the ending would be bad, that something would ruin everything good and awesome about this book. And it did, very slightly. I didn't like the ending. Blue;s curse sounded like impending doom. He had to die, sacrificed himself, go against his curse. Mira wished to soften his curse. It worked out. Now Mira had set Blue free. And what does Blue does (or at least, the book implies it) he decides to stay. With Mira. Gosh, I would hailed the book if Blue had just gone the other way: happy, free of the curse and free to love anyone he wanted. All thanks to Mira.

Damn.


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