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kathydavie's review against another edition
4.0
First in the Soulfire paranormal romance series set in an alternate Boston about a quartet of men who have been enhanced to withstand the numerous tortures rained down upon them by a witch determined to make them into the ideal men…for women.
My Take
This is too funny, waaaay too funny. I mean, how can you not help laughing at lines like the following in the midst of battles to the death:
I was also impressed with how she solved all the kill–don't kill issues. I am very much looking forward to Touch If You Dare.
The negatives…hmm…I don't understand why the Triumvirate doesn't just ask Trinity for help??? Then there's that girly talk. I wish Rowe had put a little more emphasis on it. For a while, I wasn't sure if it was on purpose or bad writing.
The Story
It's a break-out! Four hot bad boys are finally putting their escape plan into effect. After 150-some years being tortured by an angry, abandoned witch, Blaine, Nigel, Jarvis, and Christian are battling their way out of Angelica's lair, the Den of Womanly Pursuits.
In the meantime, Trinity Harpswell has almost made it. It's been four years and 51 weeks…and she hasn't killed anyone…woohoo! If Trinity can hold out for one more week, she'll be rid of the black widow curse forever!!
So, naturally, Trinity is set up by the Triumvirate, the Otherworld's "ruling body of arrogant, over-sexed men and women who got to make rules and ruin lives". Part of Trinity's curse allows her to see how to kill anyone, anything, and the council has a vicious chameleon running loose killing people. Everyone they've sent out after it has failed.
A little extortion will force Trinity into helping, if only she can fulfill a few requirements.
The Characters
Trinity Harpswell is a Black Widow. Taken from her parents when she was four-months-old, Angelica injected her with the curse, forcing her to kill any man with whom she falls in love. Countering her deathly skills, Trinity works at the Jamboree, a women's shelter intent on helping women take charge of their lives and learn self-love with appliances…seems to be the counter to Angelica's Den of Womanly Pursuits.
Trinity's parents are Elijah, a sculptor, and Olivia, intimate with Mother Nature, which allows her a number of benefits.
Blaine Underhill is a master at cross stitch; he's also a human torch using fire to heal himself, burn through anything, and throw fireballs. He has also found it pretty handy to superheat the air to cushion a fall or to power up a leap.
Nigel Aquarian loves to paint when the blades popping out of his fingernails don't get in the way and has a healing energy.
Jarvis Swain can't be killed; he chooses to suck at knitting, and his special weapon is a samurai sword that can kill or incapacitate as well as absorb energies.
Blaine considers Christian Slayer his best friend, and he is determined to rescue him from Angelica…no matter what. Christian can cause his skin to mutate into a solid metal skin or millions of tiny scales poisonous to the touch.
Angelica was brutally abandoned by her husband some 320 years ago and has been building herself back up while imparting the same strengths and tools to young girls she kidnaps while torturing young boys into being the man she wished Napoleon had been for her.
…intended to teach men to get in touch with their feminine side: embroidery, painting, foreplay while, at the same time, she tortures them for every "misdemeanor" and experiments on their bodies to enable them to survive the tortures she forces them to inflict on each other…the disemboweling, the enhanced critter attacks… Mari is Angelica's right hand girl, caught between her love for Christian and Angelica's tutelage.
Death is Angelica's grandson. A hot lad with ever increasingly expensive suits and a bigger diamond stud in his ear every time Gram sees him. Caught up in his soul delivery, his harem, and figuring out more and more ways to make money out of his death delivery business. Reina Fleming is one of Death's assistants and BFF's with Trinity.
Napoleon is a premier assassin for the Triumvirate. He's also the asshole husband who abandoned Angelica some 320 years ago, taking off with two bimbos in his Lamborghini…makes ya wonder just what year we're in now if there was a Lamborghini back then… Oh. Shit. It's Augustus! Looks like a wizened old man, smells like rotting bananas and is Napoleon's rival for the title of top of the food chain, assassin-wise — his kills are in the seven figures, using pink stars to dust people into returnable oblivion.
The Cover and Title
The cover promises pain and passion with its flaming bottom and the tattoo of a horned skull gracing the left pec of a major hottie…and I don't just mean the flames.
The title is accurate as kissing Trinity is to Kiss at Your Own Risk.
My Take
This is too funny, waaaay too funny. I mean, how can you not help laughing at lines like the following in the midst of battles to the death:
"'You're like one of those mosquito zappers. You should rent yourself out for garden weddings.'I've always enjoyed the "witty banter" of men in battle, but Rowe just takes it to a new level, combining the girly talk of color value and perspective when painting or the loveliness of the texture of certain embroidery flosses with spitting blades and fireballs. Yup, Rowe has definitely taken it up a notch!
'I'll think about it. There's something really appealing about the idea of becoming a lawn ornament.'""…Nigel had painted an artistic rendition of the witch's death on the bandana. 'Nice accessory.'"
Nigel flipped the ends…'It inspires me…'
'Maybe it's the way the blood spatters look like smiley faces. Sets a friendly tone.'"
I was also impressed with how she solved all the kill–don't kill issues. I am very much looking forward to Touch If You Dare.
The negatives…hmm…I don't understand why the Triumvirate doesn't just ask Trinity for help??? Then there's that girly talk. I wish Rowe had put a little more emphasis on it. For a while, I wasn't sure if it was on purpose or bad writing.
The Story
It's a break-out! Four hot bad boys are finally putting their escape plan into effect. After 150-some years being tortured by an angry, abandoned witch, Blaine, Nigel, Jarvis, and Christian are battling their way out of Angelica's lair, the Den of Womanly Pursuits.
In the meantime, Trinity Harpswell has almost made it. It's been four years and 51 weeks…and she hasn't killed anyone…woohoo! If Trinity can hold out for one more week, she'll be rid of the black widow curse forever!!
So, naturally, Trinity is set up by the Triumvirate, the Otherworld's "ruling body of arrogant, over-sexed men and women who got to make rules and ruin lives". Part of Trinity's curse allows her to see how to kill anyone, anything, and the council has a vicious chameleon running loose killing people. Everyone they've sent out after it has failed.
A little extortion will force Trinity into helping, if only she can fulfill a few requirements.
The Characters
Trinity Harpswell is a Black Widow. Taken from her parents when she was four-months-old, Angelica injected her with the curse, forcing her to kill any man with whom she falls in love. Countering her deathly skills, Trinity works at the Jamboree, a women's shelter intent on helping women take charge of their lives and learn self-love with appliances…seems to be the counter to Angelica's Den of Womanly Pursuits.
Trinity's parents are Elijah, a sculptor, and Olivia, intimate with Mother Nature, which allows her a number of benefits.
Blaine Underhill is a master at cross stitch; he's also a human torch using fire to heal himself, burn through anything, and throw fireballs. He has also found it pretty handy to superheat the air to cushion a fall or to power up a leap.
Nigel Aquarian loves to paint when the blades popping out of his fingernails don't get in the way and has a healing energy.
Jarvis Swain can't be killed; he chooses to suck at knitting, and his special weapon is a samurai sword that can kill or incapacitate as well as absorb energies.
Blaine considers Christian Slayer his best friend, and he is determined to rescue him from Angelica…no matter what. Christian can cause his skin to mutate into a solid metal skin or millions of tiny scales poisonous to the touch.
Angelica was brutally abandoned by her husband some 320 years ago and has been building herself back up while imparting the same strengths and tools to young girls she kidnaps while torturing young boys into being the man she wished Napoleon had been for her.
"For a psychotic bitch, she was as impressive as hell."The Den of Womanly Pursuits is…
…intended to teach men to get in touch with their feminine side: embroidery, painting, foreplay while, at the same time, she tortures them for every "misdemeanor" and experiments on their bodies to enable them to survive the tortures she forces them to inflict on each other…the disemboweling, the enhanced critter attacks… Mari is Angelica's right hand girl, caught between her love for Christian and Angelica's tutelage.
Death is Angelica's grandson. A hot lad with ever increasingly expensive suits and a bigger diamond stud in his ear every time Gram sees him. Caught up in his soul delivery, his harem, and figuring out more and more ways to make money out of his death delivery business. Reina Fleming is one of Death's assistants and BFF's with Trinity.
Napoleon is a premier assassin for the Triumvirate. He's also the asshole husband who abandoned Angelica some 320 years ago, taking off with two bimbos in his Lamborghini…makes ya wonder just what year we're in now if there was a Lamborghini back then… Oh. Shit. It's Augustus! Looks like a wizened old man, smells like rotting bananas and is Napoleon's rival for the title of top of the food chain, assassin-wise — his kills are in the seven figures, using pink stars to dust people into returnable oblivion.
The Cover and Title
The cover promises pain and passion with its flaming bottom and the tattoo of a horned skull gracing the left pec of a major hottie…and I don't just mean the flames.
The title is accurate as kissing Trinity is to Kiss at Your Own Risk.
beastreader's review against another edition
4.0
Blaine Underhill has been Angelica, the Black Witch’s prisoner for one hundred and fifty years. There is only so much womanly domination that Blaine can take. I mean Angelica has forced Blaine and his friends to take on women tasks. This is her way of taming the men. Blaine and his friends have been plotting to escape for a long time. They will only get one chance at trying to gain their freedom again. Almost everyone escapes. Blaine’s friend, Christian is left behind. Blaine vows to find a way to rescue him from the black witch.
Trinity Harpswell is the Black Widow, a deadly assassin. Trinity is ready to hang it all up. All Trinity has to do is just keep from killing anyone for at least one more week. If she can do this than she will be free.
When Blaine enters into Trinity’s life and asks for her help. Trinity will have to choose between helping Blaine or her freedom.
I have never read anything by Stephanie Rowe until now. I have to say that now that I have discovered Mrs. Rowe, I will be checking out her prior novels. Kiss at Your Own Risk is book one in the Soulfire series. It is actually very endearing to find a macho man like Blaine who is not afraid to admit that he likes to cross stitch. Though don’t get the wrong impression about Blaine as he also has your back and he is smoking hot. Trinity evenly matches Blaine move for move. She and Blaine are a perfect match together. There is plenty of action and romance for everyone. Be warned…Kiss at Your Own Risk is addicting, hilarious, and will have you craving more!
Trinity Harpswell is the Black Widow, a deadly assassin. Trinity is ready to hang it all up. All Trinity has to do is just keep from killing anyone for at least one more week. If she can do this than she will be free.
When Blaine enters into Trinity’s life and asks for her help. Trinity will have to choose between helping Blaine or her freedom.
I have never read anything by Stephanie Rowe until now. I have to say that now that I have discovered Mrs. Rowe, I will be checking out her prior novels. Kiss at Your Own Risk is book one in the Soulfire series. It is actually very endearing to find a macho man like Blaine who is not afraid to admit that he likes to cross stitch. Though don’t get the wrong impression about Blaine as he also has your back and he is smoking hot. Trinity evenly matches Blaine move for move. She and Blaine are a perfect match together. There is plenty of action and romance for everyone. Be warned…Kiss at Your Own Risk is addicting, hilarious, and will have you craving more!
anasatticbookblog's review against another edition
2.0
Well that's 4 days I can't get back. I rarely take more than 2 days to read a book, but this book took four. That's because I was on Facebook, twitter, watching TV or doing anything else I wouldn't do if I was really into a book!
There was absolutely no world building. Who are these people? Is EVERYONE in this book magical in some way? It appears so, but I'm not sure because the author never explained this. There were some cute lines, there was a hunky hero and a cool premise, but it just fell flat to me, and I wish I put it down after the first 30 pages when I wanted to, then at 60 pages I thought it might get better.....it never really did to me.
There was absolutely no world building. Who are these people? Is EVERYONE in this book magical in some way? It appears so, but I'm not sure because the author never explained this. There were some cute lines, there was a hunky hero and a cool premise, but it just fell flat to me, and I wish I put it down after the first 30 pages when I wanted to, then at 60 pages I thought it might get better.....it never really did to me.
blodeuedd's review against another edition
3.0
Plot:
Trinity is cursed, and if she kills for the 5th time she will be unstoppable, every time she falls for a guy she kills him, but if she only makes it one more week she will be free. But then her dad gets into trouble, and there is a serial killer in town, on top of it all sexy Blaine shows up and offers her a deal. Now she must try to hate him for a week so she wont kill him by accident.
My thoughts:
There was sure a lot going on in this book, and I liked that. It was strange, funny and utterly weird sometimes.
Trinity is really sweet and she hates her curse. Every time she falls for a man she goes into killing mode. While Blaine is angry tormented and hate women. He has been tortured for 150 years by an evil witch. Here is the funny part, I kind of understood Angelica, the evil witch doing the torturing. She just wants to create nice men that are kind to women. Ok wrong method, but still, not even when she sent her cute killer dogs after Blaine and his friends I could hate her.
It was a strange world that I would have liked to explore more. There seems to be magical dimensions, and our world. Death, or Prentiss that is his real name, took over the Death contract and got that job that way. There are nasty assassins running around killing, there werewolves, vampires, trolls, it's a full world. By the way, I liked Death, sure he was an utter ass-hole that had a harem of women, and they never got any satisfaction from him, but still he was so funny.
Among all this magic, there is humour and that really sets the tone for the book. It is just so amusing.
One problem I had thought was that Blaine was so angry and male, did he learn nothing while tortured *coughs* silly question. But the whole I will kill you think, meh, then again it had to be that way. But he did lose a few points there.
Recommendation and final thoughts:
I was so amused, I do like funny paranormal romance, so I would recommend this to others. It's a 3,75, that could have been a 4. I would sure like to read more from this world and explore it, and meet Death again. Perhaps he will learn a lesson about dealing with women.
Reason for reading:
Sounded fun
Trinity is cursed, and if she kills for the 5th time she will be unstoppable, every time she falls for a guy she kills him, but if she only makes it one more week she will be free. But then her dad gets into trouble, and there is a serial killer in town, on top of it all sexy Blaine shows up and offers her a deal. Now she must try to hate him for a week so she wont kill him by accident.
My thoughts:
There was sure a lot going on in this book, and I liked that. It was strange, funny and utterly weird sometimes.
Trinity is really sweet and she hates her curse. Every time she falls for a man she goes into killing mode. While Blaine is angry tormented and hate women. He has been tortured for 150 years by an evil witch. Here is the funny part, I kind of understood Angelica, the evil witch doing the torturing. She just wants to create nice men that are kind to women. Ok wrong method, but still, not even when she sent her cute killer dogs after Blaine and his friends I could hate her.
It was a strange world that I would have liked to explore more. There seems to be magical dimensions, and our world. Death, or Prentiss that is his real name, took over the Death contract and got that job that way. There are nasty assassins running around killing, there werewolves, vampires, trolls, it's a full world. By the way, I liked Death, sure he was an utter ass-hole that had a harem of women, and they never got any satisfaction from him, but still he was so funny.
Among all this magic, there is humour and that really sets the tone for the book. It is just so amusing.
One problem I had thought was that Blaine was so angry and male, did he learn nothing while tortured *coughs* silly question. But the whole I will kill you think, meh, then again it had to be that way. But he did lose a few points there.
Recommendation and final thoughts:
I was so amused, I do like funny paranormal romance, so I would recommend this to others. It's a 3,75, that could have been a 4. I would sure like to read more from this world and explore it, and meet Death again. Perhaps he will learn a lesson about dealing with women.
Reason for reading:
Sounded fun
lynseyisreading's review against another edition
3.0
This is a bit of a weird one to review. Part of me really, really enjoyed it, the rest of me thought it was kind of silly.
Let me try to explain.
The things I really liked were the originality of the characters in terms of what they are. There were some great new ideas here- Ms Rowe is clearly a very creative lady and she has written some brilliantly imaginative creatures and beings. Okay, so we've heard of witches before and we've heard of a black widow before, but the four warrior guys in the story and their abilities - they were really interesting. The only way I can think to describe them is as human mutants. They've been tinkered with by the witch who has held them captive for the last century and a half, using Black Magic. The main character we follow in this book, Blaine, is a sort of fire warrior....think of The Human Torch from the Fantastic Four movies and you'll be close.
The other thing I really appreciated was the overall plot. It was a great race against time thrill ride with high stakes and a love story that took place along the way. All good stuff.
What kind of spoiled it for me, I'm sorry to say, was the writing style. It was written in a sort of conversational tone- only it was like a conversation with someone with really weird speech patterns and a hard to understand accent. I found myself having to do the literary equivalent of lip reading for the first 50 or so pages of the book. She would also miss words off the beginning of sentences and substitute words for slang phrases and I had a hard time trying to understand just what the author was trying to convey at times. Also annoying was the overuse of brackets. It was like (Hello? Use brackets much?) every other paragraph. And the Hello? thing would have been annoying all by itself without drawing a circle around it.
Also, she just tried just a little too hard to be funny, to that point that it wasn't. I like humorous books, but it would be better if the humour was limited to the banter and dialogue between characters, rather than the entire prose sounding like some kind of comedy farce. I'm sure some people will appreciate the added humour, and to be fair, it did work in some scenes, but I personally found it was just trying too hard.
In summation, I'd say it's still a good book and people that enjoy light-hearted PNR should definitely give it a go. I just think the author could have made something more of her ideas than this type of paranormal comedy romp. I'd love for her to write a straight up paranormal series one day, with her great ideas and creativity it would certainly be worth a look if she did.
Let me try to explain.
The things I really liked were the originality of the characters in terms of what they are. There were some great new ideas here- Ms Rowe is clearly a very creative lady and she has written some brilliantly imaginative creatures and beings. Okay, so we've heard of witches before and we've heard of a black widow before, but the four warrior guys in the story and their abilities - they were really interesting. The only way I can think to describe them is as human mutants. They've been tinkered with by the witch who has held them captive for the last century and a half, using Black Magic. The main character we follow in this book, Blaine, is a sort of fire warrior....think of The Human Torch from the Fantastic Four movies and you'll be close.
The other thing I really appreciated was the overall plot. It was a great race against time thrill ride with high stakes and a love story that took place along the way. All good stuff.
What kind of spoiled it for me, I'm sorry to say, was the writing style. It was written in a sort of conversational tone- only it was like a conversation with someone with really weird speech patterns and a hard to understand accent. I found myself having to do the literary equivalent of lip reading for the first 50 or so pages of the book. She would also miss words off the beginning of sentences and substitute words for slang phrases and I had a hard time trying to understand just what the author was trying to convey at times. Also annoying was the overuse of brackets. It was like (Hello? Use brackets much?) every other paragraph. And the Hello? thing would have been annoying all by itself without drawing a circle around it.
Also, she just tried just a little too hard to be funny, to that point that it wasn't. I like humorous books, but it would be better if the humour was limited to the banter and dialogue between characters, rather than the entire prose sounding like some kind of comedy farce. I'm sure some people will appreciate the added humour, and to be fair, it did work in some scenes, but I personally found it was just trying too hard.
In summation, I'd say it's still a good book and people that enjoy light-hearted PNR should definitely give it a go. I just think the author could have made something more of her ideas than this type of paranormal comedy romp. I'd love for her to write a straight up paranormal series one day, with her great ideas and creativity it would certainly be worth a look if she did.
diaryofthebookdragon's review against another edition
3.0
The hint that this is not going to be the book I usually come across was right there in the first sentence I read: "he knew tonight wasn't the night he was going to get his newest cross-stitching tapestry finished..."
No, you did not understand it wrong. Alexander Blaine Underhill III, our main hero, likes to cross-stitch.
Why? There has to be some rational expalantion?
Well, of course there is. :p
He was imprisoned by the black witch in the Den of Womanly Pursuits for more than three hundred years. The evil witch (who by the way is Death's granma also) tried to emasculate him so she could control him.
But did learning to cross-stitch hinder Blaine? No, he is one mean-lean-killing machine.
And the first thing he plans to do now that he is free, is to kill the witch who kept him prisoner. To be able to do that he needs to enlist a help of reluctant black widow Trinity Harpswell, defeat hordes of schnoodemgons (poodles+demons+dragons mix monsters), act like a brute so Trinity does not fall in love and kill him, escape the witch who is trying to catch him again, defeat hired assain Oh Shit It's Augustus, catch cameleon monster that is killing people in the city and save his best friend from certain death.
Peace of cake!
If Monty Python's ever decided to write a paranormal romance novel, this is how I imagine it would turn out. Situations and characters are border-line absurd most of the time, but somehow [a:Stephanie Rowe|19729|Stephanie Rowe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1331008736p2/19729.jpg] managed to make it work.
No, you did not understand it wrong. Alexander Blaine Underhill III, our main hero, likes to cross-stitch.
Why? There has to be some rational expalantion?
Well, of course there is. :p
He was imprisoned by the black witch in the Den of Womanly Pursuits for more than three hundred years. The evil witch (who by the way is Death's granma also) tried to emasculate him so she could control him.
But did learning to cross-stitch hinder Blaine? No, he is one mean-lean-killing machine.
And the first thing he plans to do now that he is free, is to kill the witch who kept him prisoner. To be able to do that he needs to enlist a help of reluctant black widow Trinity Harpswell, defeat hordes of schnoodemgons (poodles+demons+dragons mix monsters), act like a brute so Trinity does not fall in love and kill him, escape the witch who is trying to catch him again, defeat hired assain Oh Shit It's Augustus, catch cameleon monster that is killing people in the city and save his best friend from certain death.
Peace of cake!
If Monty Python's ever decided to write a paranormal romance novel, this is how I imagine it would turn out. Situations and characters are border-line absurd most of the time, but somehow [a:Stephanie Rowe|19729|Stephanie Rowe|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1331008736p2/19729.jpg] managed to make it work.
geleeregina's review against another edition
3.0
It took me a while to get into the book, but once I did, it was cute. I liked the creative evilness of Angelica. Who wouldn't laugh at having men punished by taking up women's hobbies such as cross-stitching, knitting, and painting. LOL I'm not sure I understand all that happened in the book. It was very fast paced, but definately a different kind of paranormal.
alexiachantel's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars
When a drop dead sexy man is sitting on a motorcycle telling you to submit to him and the bike, don’t think just get the hell on.
Rowe has created these tough guys that have had these feminine characteristics drilled into them. For the first bit of the book you might be confused as these warriors are preparing to battle their way out of captivity yet still think about things like cross stitching. Once the big bad of the book is introduced it will all make sense.
Blaine is an amazing character, with some hot powers. Despite hundreds of years of torture and captivity he still has honor. It is great to see how he interacts with his fellow captive brothers. But even better is to see how he reacts to Trinity and her personality that changes how he sees women.
Trinity is a good woman struggling with a horrible curse. To kill the guy you love, talk about heartbreak. When she meets Blaine he comes across as someone she could never fall for, which is a great relief. Sparks fly, and not just from Blaine’s hands.
Even the villain is so well written you may find yourself feeling slightly sorry for her and wishing for her to get her own happy ending. Of course the happy ending you may have in your head can’t begin to reach what Rowe has in store; it is perfect.
A great start to this series. Can’t wait to laugh my way through the next one!
When a drop dead sexy man is sitting on a motorcycle telling you to submit to him and the bike, don’t think just get the hell on.
Rowe has created these tough guys that have had these feminine characteristics drilled into them. For the first bit of the book you might be confused as these warriors are preparing to battle their way out of captivity yet still think about things like cross stitching. Once the big bad of the book is introduced it will all make sense.
Blaine is an amazing character, with some hot powers. Despite hundreds of years of torture and captivity he still has honor. It is great to see how he interacts with his fellow captive brothers. But even better is to see how he reacts to Trinity and her personality that changes how he sees women.
Trinity is a good woman struggling with a horrible curse. To kill the guy you love, talk about heartbreak. When she meets Blaine he comes across as someone she could never fall for, which is a great relief. Sparks fly, and not just from Blaine’s hands.
Even the villain is so well written you may find yourself feeling slightly sorry for her and wishing for her to get her own happy ending. Of course the happy ending you may have in your head can’t begin to reach what Rowe has in store; it is perfect.
A great start to this series. Can’t wait to laugh my way through the next one!
drey72's review against another edition
3.0
Kiss at Your Own Risk started off the laughter early, as the guys--Blaine, Nigel, and Jarvis--are escaping from the wicked witch who's held them captive for a hundred and fifty years. And it continues throughout the book, that smart-alecky humor that makes you snort and giggle as you read (and causes funny looks to get thrown your way). Read it for that alone, unless you're into the romance part, which isn't half bad at all if you ask me. Yes, that was me attempting snarkiness... And yes, the romantic parts of the book were as good as the funny parts of the book.
Character: Blaine has issues. LOTS of issues. Then again, if your family had sold you to a witch and you've spent the last century and a half trying to survive her trials and tribulations, you'd have issues too. Trinity has issues as well--because as soon as she loves a fella, the poor thing's toast. As in "hasta la vista bay-bee" toast. You can only kill so many boys before you get a complex, y'know... The supporting cast of characters are pretty neat, especially Trinity's BFF, who's one of Death's assistants. And the witch? She's just misunderstood... Hah! All in all this is quite the cast that Stephanie Rowe's come up with.
Pace & Plot: The story is rockin' from the get-go, and doesn't let up on the gas. Storyline was a bit confusing (just a bit) until all the pieces clicked and you go "ahah!"
This page-turner had me constantly chuckling at something... Definitely pick it up if that's your thing!
Character: Blaine has issues. LOTS of issues. Then again, if your family had sold you to a witch and you've spent the last century and a half trying to survive her trials and tribulations, you'd have issues too. Trinity has issues as well--because as soon as she loves a fella, the poor thing's toast. As in "hasta la vista bay-bee" toast. You can only kill so many boys before you get a complex, y'know... The supporting cast of characters are pretty neat, especially Trinity's BFF, who's one of Death's assistants. And the witch? She's just misunderstood... Hah! All in all this is quite the cast that Stephanie Rowe's come up with.
Pace & Plot: The story is rockin' from the get-go, and doesn't let up on the gas. Storyline was a bit confusing (just a bit) until all the pieces clicked and you go "ahah!"
This page-turner had me constantly chuckling at something... Definitely pick it up if that's your thing!
slc333's review against another edition
2.0
Would have been a 3 star except that I found it very difficult to like any of the characters aside from Trinity.