Intertwined

DNF at 80 pages. It was very dialogue-heavy because it's from the POV of the main character but then he has four other voices ‘living' inside him. Even the chapters from the girl's POV was mostly dialogue. I usually don't have a problem with that but when the voices are unrealistic and hard to distinguish, it becomes a very confusing read. The concept is interesting but I just think the author didn't have the skill to pull it off successfully.

Intertwined is a book that I should love. It had the ability to draw me in with it's sympathetic main character, Aden Stone, and his plight with the four souls that are trapped inside his head. he also seemed to have a bit of a demon-hunter thing going on with his ability to raise the dead and, hopefully dispatch them back to wherever they came from. Sadly, for me this book became to boring to finish and I just could not bring myself to read till the end.
So why give this book three stars even though I wasn't able to finish it? Because Aden Stone kept me intrigued. He was a character that was very unique. He had his own set of problems, and he did things that I didn't necessarily like, but I could sympathies with. For example, early on in the book, he takes control of the body of his caretaker so that he can get the authority to go to a public high school. On the one hand,the act of taking over someone else s body is something that is a major violation of personal space, and is not something to be agreed with. On the other, this shows that Aden is proactive and is willing to do what he wants to achieve his goals, which is something to commend. He also doesn't trust or like authority because he has moved from so many institutions and been treated badly by so many different adults. His character fits with that kind of trauma so that the reader can understand all of his actions.
Why did I not finish this book if I love the main character so much? Well, I think it is because this book just got boring to me. Sure, he meets a vampire-princess, a werewolf-bodyguard, a a human who can silence the souls in his head, which you'd think would be exciting, but the author gives them little to do except stand around and talk about things that are happening. I've always said that showing and not telling is the best policy, and that is true here. Also, the powers that Aden supposedly has all come from these four souls trapped inside him, so what makes him so special? I know I might be asking a dumb question that gets answered by the end of the book, but if it isn't answered by the half way mark, I'm done.
The switch in viewpoints is a little disappointing as well. We see the POV of Mary-Ann, Aden's human friend who can silence the voices in his head. Maybe her part would be more interesting if there was more for her to do. While i could sympathize with her to a point about her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend, I felt that those scenes went on too long. The romance with the werewolf was also too long. Since there wasn't much for this character to do, she spent most of the book just looking at her werewolf boyfriend and thinking how cute he was, and this irritated me to no end.
I think i might pick up the second book in the series if I ever can, but in the mean time, I am just going to give it three stars. It was not to horrible, with it's interesting premise and main character, but there was also nothing to keep me reading to the end.