One thing I love about writing is that you can create your own world.  While writing contemporaries or historicals, you need to keep your characters into the confines of the 'real' world, but you can still create characters and situations unique to your story.  BUT, when you write science fiction or paranormals, you have the freedom to create an entire world all your own.  You make the rules, you are the god.  Why I'm I writing about this?  Well, I just finished reading a science fiction book.  I don't, as a rule, usually read sci fi, it's just not my thing.  But this one caught my eye, jumped off the shelf and into my bookbag and came home with me.  It was okay, I finished it because I kind of wanted to see how it was going to end.  But, I had some issues with it.  Something that wasn't possible on page 235, suddenly became so on page 242.  The author forgot the rules of her world.  I don't mind incredibly scenerios - that's what sci-fi is all about, but the scenerios need to be consistant or it pulls you right out of the story, which is what happened to me. 

The first 75 pages or so also skimmed through about 100 years, a date was given, then a few pages of backstory.  Then another date followed by more backstory.  But her dates were meshing with each other, unless time worked differently in her world.  But it didn't appear to, and if it did, it was never explained throughout the entire 400+ page book.

I couldn't help  but feel that the author failed her readers.  She gave them a world without boarders or steadfast rules.  I felt cheated and thus, my enjoyment of reading the book was gone.  I finished it, but I turned the final page with a sense of relief that it was over, not a longing to know more.  Which is not a good thing, especially since this was the first book of a series.  I series I will never continue reading.