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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Don't read this series unless you have access to ALL five of the books. The first one is a little annoying, because our heroine starts out as a pink, vapid southern belle ditz. She grows and develops quite a bit, but you have to persist and keep going to get to the point where you like and understand her, and then it gets really interesting . . .
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A fun little romp into a new faerie world. Ok start to a long series. I’m in enough that I’ll keep reading…waiting for the romance to actually start
Recommended by a friend. I will admit, that if this hadn't been recommended I probably wouldn't have read it much past the first part.
The prose is chunky. The protagonist is a pretty girl whose outfits I knew more than I knew what went on her head, but was supposed to be smarter than her looks. And yet, she was routinely dumb and only saved in Mary Sue style. And she was a young girl resisting the evidence of "Other" around her and being introduced by a Dark and Mysterious Man (who at least in this case has the decency to not be a HUGE BLATANT LOVE INTEREST) to the dangerous world underneath ours, of which I've seen far too much recently in this genre.
The secondary characters were interesting (and I did like that every time the protagonist 'found' something to help with her sister's murder investigation others had already found and explored in general which was nice) but Mac was driving me batty for the first half of the book. But, about halfway through, I got a little more invested. The prose (and the backtracking and the narrator asides) still isn't great but the world is interesting and Mac stopped being quite so dense. I'm not sure if I'll read more (though this was more cliffhanger than not) but it was certainly an interesting take if the Faery wasn't a myth.
The prose is chunky. The protagonist is a pretty girl whose outfits I knew more than I knew what went on her head, but was supposed to be smarter than her looks. And yet, she was routinely dumb and only saved in Mary Sue style. And she was a young girl resisting the evidence of "Other" around her and being introduced by a Dark and Mysterious Man (who at least in this case has the decency to not be a HUGE BLATANT LOVE INTEREST) to the dangerous world underneath ours, of which I've seen far too much recently in this genre.
The secondary characters were interesting (and I did like that every time the protagonist 'found' something to help with her sister's murder investigation others had already found and explored in general which was nice) but Mac was driving me batty for the first half of the book. But, about halfway through, I got a little more invested. The prose (and the backtracking and the narrator asides) still isn't great but the world is interesting and Mac stopped being quite so dense. I'm not sure if I'll read more (though this was more cliffhanger than not) but it was certainly an interesting take if the Faery wasn't a myth.
medium-paced
Wet disappointing. Started off promising, but the ending and mid-arc were predictable and Terrible.
i liked reading this, not as high quality writing as some of the other fantasy books ive been reading but fun and interesting
This is the first in a new series from Moning. It's about MacKayla Lane (Mac) and her quest to find out the truth about her sister's murder. She discovers that there are magical creatures in the world, and want to kill her for being a sidhe-seer. She meets up with Jericho Barrons who isn't quite what he seems. Told by Mac, looking back at the events that shaped her new life, it is an interesting story that fits nicely with Moning's others about the Tuatha De Daaan, or the Fae. This one isn't a romance, like her others. Mac and J.B. may end up together, but for now, they are concentrating on discovering the truth while staying alive.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes