Title: Abandon (Abandon Trilogy #1)

Author: Meg Cabot

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Published: April 26, 2011

This book is a modern retelling of the myth Persephone and her time in Hades.

This is not my first Meg Cabot. Each time I wonder why I keep going back. This was my latest attempt.

The main character Pierce made more than one reference to looking at the world through a glass coffin. I understand the sentiment. I felt removed from all the characters and all the situations they were in. The only character we really spent time getting to know with any depth was Pierce and other than the her repeating the same phrases over and over we didn't really get anything of value.

For most of the book Pierce would hint at events which had happened to her, then she began doling out information a couple of sentences here a paragraph there. I felt like a I was four and my parents still needed to cut my food before I was allowed to eat my dinner. That many references to the "accident" or the "incident" became really annoying after three or four times.

I did like the few chapters we spent with Pierce's cousin Alex and his friend Kayla. We were never given their full story, or really very much back story for either, but they where the characters with the attributes I would have liked to get to know better.

Overall I gave this book 2 stars out of 5.