Oddily by: Linda Pohring (Review)

Title: Oddily

Author: Linda Pohring

Number of Pages: 264

Date of Release: April 25^th, 2011

Summary From Goodreads:

There are three things the shy, awkward Oddily knows for sure.

She would rather be anyone other than herself…
She wants to fit in at school…
And strange things are happening to her.

For Oddily, she tries to keep an open mind…
But what she discovers is too unbelievable to think about…
Too magical too consider, and too dangerous to ignore.

Oddily becomes trapped in a love story like no other.

Review: That cover is so gut wrenching in a way. I love the girl on it and how vulnerable she looks, coincidentally this tied right into the story. While I enjoyed Oddily, I had a few things that kind of made it a tad bit boring. So much so that I read super fast, instead of savoring every word.

I really liked Oddily, but I did not like the situations she was written in to. Her character itself, was done very well, but the world she was inserted into lacked the depth that was needed to draw me in. Although I do like Oddily, I did not like the way even after she was transformed, she kept saying how ugly she was, it was kind of taken too far and got to be very annoying. Maxim was written super well also, he had the emotion, and depth that I love in make characters, the best part was his sincerity. He handled the world he was inserted into well, but really could have been taken to another level, I just didn’t see it.

So I really liked the characters for the most part. This novel has the making to be brilliant. It has a great concept, except it went off into the wrong direction. I think that really if you stripped the concept and characters down to the bare minimum and wrote your own story around that, the it would be brilliant. What would probably also fix the novel, was if it had been edited more extensively and had more beta readers. That being said, I enjoyed the originality and cannot wait to see what Linda dreams up next.