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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
fast-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:
No
Another fun book in the series! This is such a unique series and really entertaining. The start of the show is Lizbeth. She's a very young, independent woman who has a very dangerous job as a gunnie. She's hired out for odd jobs protecting what or who needs protecting in their transport. Now think back into the old western days. There are cars, but rare and expensive. Most transport is by horse and buggy. But this old western world has magic. It truly is one of the most uniquest series I've read and the biggest draw for me is Lisbeth. I am such a fan of girl power, so when I find a series where the main hero is the woman, I'm all in. What I like even more is when these women are good people with good morals, who are loyal and brave, and just kicks butt. That's what you get with Lizbeth. I'm truly looking forward to more in the series.
Another fun book by Charlaine Harris in this crazy timeline she's imagined for a fractured USA that includes a Holy Roman Empire yet has a lot of Western gunslinging DNA.
challenging
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I've been a terrible ARC reader- I received this book last year to read, but I struggled to get into it. As much as I'd like to focus on the good... there isn't much to work on with this book. My review is more a series of complaints with spoilers, which is not how I wanted to go into writing this.
Gunnie Rose started off strong as a series- I have enjoyed both Lisbeth and Felicia as main characters. This is the first book that features both characters as main characters, and I was very excited going into it.
However, the relationship dynamic between Lisbeth and Eli and Felicia and Peter is terrible. For Lisbeth and Eli, there is no communication between these two and it makes both characters unlikeable. Drama is peak when it really shouldn't be. As a real life situation, I could see how miscommunication would happen because Lisbeth and Eli are both grieving. As a story, it is unsatisfying to read and I don't like that a miscarriage was used as a means to divide the characters.
The book felt like a bad season of a TV show. It was overly dramatic and each scene in the story felt like how an episode of TV would play out.
I feel like Harris split up the characters and kept the men out of the story so that the death at the end of the book would not be devastating. It also made it so I was completely disconnected from the character so the death felt pointless/used to move Felicia forward for the future plot. A lot of this book felt like setup for the next book.
And finally, the ending. Hitler? Really? While I understand that I am in an AU world, I don't think adding Hitler as the next new bad guy is in good taste.
I would give book 6 a chance, after all, I loved the first 4 books. I hope to see better communication between characters and less setup/more present tense conflict/resolution.
Thank you Gallery Books/S&S/Saga Books for an advanced copy of All the Dead Shall Weep.
Gunnie Rose started off strong as a series- I have enjoyed both Lisbeth and Felicia as main characters. This is the first book that features both characters as main characters, and I was very excited going into it.
However, the relationship dynamic between Lisbeth and Eli and Felicia and Peter is terrible. For Lisbeth and Eli, there is no communication between these two and it makes both characters unlikeable. Drama is peak when it really shouldn't be. As a real life situation, I could see how miscommunication would happen because Lisbeth and Eli are both grieving. As a story, it is unsatisfying to read and I don't like that a miscarriage was used as a means to divide the characters.
The book felt like a bad season of a TV show. It was overly dramatic and each scene in the story felt like how an episode of TV would play out.
I feel like Harris split up the characters and kept the men out of the story so that the death at the end of the book would not be devastating. It also made it so I was completely disconnected from the character so the death felt pointless/used to move Felicia forward for the future plot. A lot of this book felt like setup for the next book.
And finally, the ending. Hitler? Really? While I understand that I am in an AU world, I don't think adding Hitler as the next new bad guy is in good taste.
I would give book 6 a chance, after all, I loved the first 4 books. I hope to see better communication between characters and less setup/more present tense conflict/resolution.
Thank you Gallery Books/S&S/Saga Books for an advanced copy of All the Dead Shall Weep.
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
One of my least favorite tropes in books is when the entire plot could have been solved by decent communication. The latest book in the Gunnie Rose series is a case of this for a major sub-plot with Eli and Lizbeth. The relationship with Lizbeth and her sister Felicia was lovely, but this has been my least favorite book in the series so far. I felt the resolution to this book treated a particular event as an afterthought and almost a throwaway event which cheapened some of the previous action and character development. I will wait and see where the next book is headed to see if this book is more than just filler. For now, I could take it or leave it as compared to the rest of the series.
This one was hard to put down! I loved the multiple POV and Felicia's story. Very excited for the next one!