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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Update: My review remains the same, although now that I've read more of the series - I find it enjoyable.
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As it slowly gets closer to Autumn and Halloween season, I'm anxious to read more fantasy books. Particularly those involving vampires, werewolves, and the like. I read a couple of the Mercy Thompson series back in Middle/High School and I can honestly say I don't remember but else, and now I understand why.
While not particularly terrible, it's also not particularly enjoyable either. There's a lot that happens, yet I feel like nothing actually happened. I don't care about the protagonist or any other major/minor characters. Other than Mac, he was in the book for a total of maybe two chapters
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As it slowly gets closer to Autumn and Halloween season, I'm anxious to read more fantasy books. Particularly those involving vampires, werewolves, and the like. I read a couple of the Mercy Thompson series back in Middle/High School and I can honestly say I don't remember but else, and now I understand why.
While not particularly terrible, it's also not particularly enjoyable either. There's a lot that happens, yet I feel like nothing actually happened. I don't care about the protagonist or any other major/minor characters. Other than Mac, he was in the book for a total of maybe two chapters
It's a bit of a generic seeming book to start out the series and I can't say it'll really wow anyone, but it's just the introduction. You get a glimpse of the world and characters here. You won't know every single detail about them from this first book, you have to learn that from reading the rest of the series. It does excel in the pacing. You don't have the stupid immediate love and sex right off the bat like a lot of other books these days
This is about the series as a whole so far rather than the first book:
I didn't think much of this series for the first two books. It seemed like an uninteresting and bland PNR - a genre that I've come to really hate as it's all pretty much just smut. This series really is different, though. It's actually a romance. o.O It's not just an "omg, he's totally hot, let's sex now" kind of story that seems to plague almost every other series/book in the urban fantasy genre. Heck, there's hardly any sex in the series and the couple times it is there, it's about a line basically just saying "we just had a romp in the sack" and that's it. No out of place or gratuitous descriptions of every single thing they are doing.
There's a bit of action in this as well, but it's not going to be as heavy as other series. The main focus is the characters [read: characters, not love drama]. You'll slowly get to know them over the course of each book, like you would a real person, rather than just reading an info dump about who the characters are.
This is about the series as a whole so far rather than the first book:
I didn't think much of this series for the first two books. It seemed like an uninteresting and bland PNR - a genre that I've come to really hate as it's all pretty much just smut. This series really is different, though. It's actually a romance. o.O It's not just an "omg, he's totally hot, let's sex now" kind of story that seems to plague almost every other series/book in the urban fantasy genre. Heck, there's hardly any sex in the series and the couple times it is there, it's about a line basically just saying "we just had a romp in the sack" and that's it. No out of place or gratuitous descriptions of every single thing they are doing.
There's a bit of action in this as well, but it's not going to be as heavy as other series. The main focus is the characters [read: characters, not love drama]. You'll slowly get to know them over the course of each book, like you would a real person, rather than just reading an info dump about who the characters are.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is a fun story where the werewolves, vampires, and other creatures that go bump in the night are actually believable (unlike some I won't mention). I like the hierarchy of the different species. Mercy is a unique character but one that a reader can relate to. She does not want to give up her independence. She struggles with her feelings for another and how that can impact her. She is also unique because she is the only Native American shape-shifter anyone around her knows of. She has abilities, but does not really understand how to use them and does not have anyone to show her. Through the series, she and others around her grow and change as characters.
adventurous
Narrated by Lorelei King
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I don't even remember the first time I read this story.
Still good, even as Audio.
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I don't even remember the first time I read this story.
Still good, even as Audio.
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Celkem příjemné počtení. Doufám, že další díly série nepůjdou s kvalitou dolů.
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
I just find this to be 95% world building/action and 5% character. I really wanted to enjoy it but I'm bored and crawling through a very short book. After reading a bunch of middle grade in March, I was in the mood for something really adult and tried urban fantasy and romance again. I should have just read a bunch of fanfic. I tried Mercy Thompson years ago and couldn’t get into it. I enjoyed the Alpha and Omega short story well enough, but I couldn’t get into Moon Called at all. I found the characters flat and the world-building to dominate the entire book–and I’m just not interested in werewolves or pack dynamics.