I did not have a chance to read this book, but it is effecting my feedback rating. I am giving books 5 stars that I haven't read to improve my feedback rating. I am not recommending the book for my classroom or students since I have not read the book. There needs to be a better system of leaving feedback for books not read.

I wish I had liked this book more. The cover is awesome and the concept sounded extremely intriguing. I enjoyed how it started off immediately without much buildup and stayed pretty face paced throughout the whole read. I loved the urban fantasy, dreamlike aspect of it but it started losing me a bit when it became too paranormal and supernatural. It's not that I don't like the supernatural, but there wasn't enough background so I felt myself feeling confused and getting detached from the content. I do wish there was more focus on the female characters, as they seemed to have more depth had we gotten to spend more time there. I have to wonder if that had been a plan for the second book that never seemed to be written/released. Although this wasn't my favorite, I would have continued on reading the series if it existed.

I wanted to like this but just didn't. It was well written but the story was just okay. Maybe the wrong book at the wrong time? I don't want to judge it because of that so you try it. I hope it works for other people in better reading times.

Emmett Brennan is a seventeen year old orphan that has the same surreal dream over and over. There is always the painting of Belshazzar’s Feast, marred with words scribbled overhead, and there is always the amber-eyed woman with the serpents around her neck.

*I never got around to reading and reviewing this book. I may do so in the future*