The Mark was…interesting. I didn’t hate it. I know, I know, it’s not a good sign when all I can say about a book is that I didn’t hate it but honestly, I found the book interesting but at the same time, it wasn’t what I was expecting. The cover leads me to believe that the novel is going to be focused on the supernatural aspect of the story and that is anything but the case. Cassandra can see a glow around people who are going to die. Of course, this is very traumatic as she is living with her grandmother, her parents having been killed in a car accident when she is a baby.So when her grandmother, too, passes away, Cassandra becomes an orphan totally. Until she finds out that she has an aunt she didn’t know about. With me so far? Okay, good. Cassandra travels to stay with her aunt for about four months or however long until her next birthday and she can claim her inheritance. There she meets this boy who teaches her about well, a lot of thing. I understood that Cassandra was going through a lot of things and I appreciated the difficulty of the question she grapples with: “Should I tell the people that they are going to die?” The boy who becomes her boyfriend fairly quickly is all for it and in fact pushes her to so without seeming to care about the trauma that Cassandra undergoes every time she does so.He’s a real prince, that guy. I seriously didn’t understand how she could so easily fall into bed with the guy. A Mistake is what he is and well, yes. The book is more about Cassandra dealing with herself, her loss and her discoveries about her mother than “the Mark.” However, there’s a certain weight to the words, a certain melancholy in the prose that will keep you reading even though your forehead will scrunch up and you will wish Cassandra would just not do the stuff she does.I am going to read the new series but I read the synopsis and there’s another new guy who seems to be yet another mistake. One wonders how many mistakes she will make.
