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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
TC : I bought it due to recommendations on twitter. I adore the Jane Yellowrock series which links into it. I don’t recommend you read this series without the other as the assumed knowledge is HUGE.
One-Lined Sum up – A cult survivor with nature based powers starts life anew only to have her world turned upside down by the arrival of the supernatural police in the quest for some missing girls.
I got talked into this series by twitter and I’m happy that I did because I loved it. It feels very different to the Yellowrock series but that is because, as all the books are written in first POV, the characters couldn’t be more different (although both are amazeballs!). My big fear walking into this book is the addition of Rick and Paka (I fricking hate Rick) but they are secondary characters at best and I didn’t mind what they brought to the story.
Nell has escaped the hold of her cult-church lifestyle and is attempting to live the life she always wanted on her own. With her affinity to all things nature, she knows that she would never be truly be accepted by the people that she called family (she’s too “weird”) and so she wants to experience what the world has to offer without the restrictions of the “rules”. Although the church keep trying to snatch her back, it’s all going quite well until the arrival of the PsyLED team (plus douchy Rick). The case they are working on seems connected to the church (cult) where Nell grew up and so she is best placed to help out. Of course, it helps when her special affinity to the Earth brings some useful powers to the mix ….
I loved this book. Nell is not the character I expected and I adored her. She is such a strong woman (she escaped a cult for gods sake!) and I enjoyed the journey into her world. She goes through some serious shit in these books (those church assholes are HORRIBLE) but I loved seeing her try to negotiate her fixed world view with the realities of modern day life. The whole PsyLED team contribute to her shift in views but I loved that Faith Hunter didn’t attempt to show Nell as someone who needed saving; she saved herself and the others just showed her what she could grasp onto if she wanted to. Nell was never patronised or pitied in the book and it kept me believing in her as a heroine which is important to me as a reader of an Urban Fantasy series.
One thing I will say about Faith Hunter’s world is that it’s never boring. The whole concept of Nell’s plant based power was fascinating and I was hooked with the uniqueness of this series. The series is dark, fun and completely compelling; I LOVED IT. There isn’t quite the family dynamic which I loved in the Yellowrock series but I can see the potential with Nell and the rest of the team which I really hopes continually developing.
As a starter to the series, this had everything I wanted. It had fabulous world building, an amazing protagonist and a fabulous set of secondary characters. Nell is strong, independent and powerful; I want to know more!
One-Lined Sum up – A cult survivor with nature based powers starts life anew only to have her world turned upside down by the arrival of the supernatural police in the quest for some missing girls.
I got talked into this series by twitter and I’m happy that I did because I loved it. It feels very different to the Yellowrock series but that is because, as all the books are written in first POV, the characters couldn’t be more different (although both are amazeballs!). My big fear walking into this book is the addition of Rick and Paka (I fricking hate Rick) but they are secondary characters at best and I didn’t mind what they brought to the story.
Nell has escaped the hold of her cult-church lifestyle and is attempting to live the life she always wanted on her own. With her affinity to all things nature, she knows that she would never be truly be accepted by the people that she called family (she’s too “weird”) and so she wants to experience what the world has to offer without the restrictions of the “rules”. Although the church keep trying to snatch her back, it’s all going quite well until the arrival of the PsyLED team (plus douchy Rick). The case they are working on seems connected to the church (cult) where Nell grew up and so she is best placed to help out. Of course, it helps when her special affinity to the Earth brings some useful powers to the mix ….
I loved this book. Nell is not the character I expected and I adored her. She is such a strong woman (she escaped a cult for gods sake!) and I enjoyed the journey into her world. She goes through some serious shit in these books (those church assholes are HORRIBLE) but I loved seeing her try to negotiate her fixed world view with the realities of modern day life. The whole PsyLED team contribute to her shift in views but I loved that Faith Hunter didn’t attempt to show Nell as someone who needed saving; she saved herself and the others just showed her what she could grasp onto if she wanted to. Nell was never patronised or pitied in the book and it kept me believing in her as a heroine which is important to me as a reader of an Urban Fantasy series.
One thing I will say about Faith Hunter’s world is that it’s never boring. The whole concept of Nell’s plant based power was fascinating and I was hooked with the uniqueness of this series. The series is dark, fun and completely compelling; I LOVED IT. There isn’t quite the family dynamic which I loved in the Yellowrock series but I can see the potential with Nell and the rest of the team which I really hopes continually developing.
As a starter to the series, this had everything I wanted. It had fabulous world building, an amazing protagonist and a fabulous set of secondary characters. Nell is strong, independent and powerful; I want to know more!
Honestly I was never able to get past Jane Yellowrock book one but I loved this book! Amazing, full of surprising twists and turns.
I was given a copy of this title, free, in exchange for my honest opinion.
Faith Hunter is an author that I have been meaning to pick up. Her series Jane Yellowrock was the title that originally caught my eye. Though this is a series set in the same world as Jane Yellowrock , and they intersect in Jane's story, this is a series all of it's own.
I really like Nell's voice as the narrator. It was a meandering tone, but wandering with a purpose. It was slow, as if she has invited you in and was giving you time to get settled in your seat in her home. But it wasn't so slow as to make you regret sitting down for a chat. That's really how Nell narrated the story, as if you were company in her home.
While the history with Jane is mentioned throughout the story in bits and pieces, this is a story all on its own. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Nell transform into her own -shedding the invisible skin of the church, but not quite a federal agent. She is stuck somewhere in between, not really sure if she's allowed to not be either or to be both, until she makes the decision to be herself.
I like the fact that we get to know the characters, villains and good guys (and those in between) as well as the ins and out of the Psyled team at the same rate that Nell learns them. Another way that Hunter has allowed us to be a part of the story. This was not just a simple case of rooting out the bad guys and then catching them and saving the girl. Secrets were uncovered, the shady side of the cult was uncovered, reconnecting with family, and bonding with a found family all happen. There is so much more than meets the eye with this story.
The action, the violence and the deaths, just enough to keep the story interesting without it becoming distasteful. I am so glad that I also have the next two books in the series for review.
5 stars
What you should know:
-This is the first in a new series.
-This is a spin-off series of the Jane Yellowrock series, though Jane is not in this book
-I have not read any of the other Yellowock novels
-There will at least be three, 3, boos in the SoulWood series.
-This is my first five-star book this year!
Always Shine!
Faith Hunter is an author that I have been meaning to pick up. Her series Jane Yellowrock was the title that originally caught my eye. Though this is a series set in the same world as Jane Yellowrock , and they intersect in Jane's story, this is a series all of it's own.
I really like Nell's voice as the narrator. It was a meandering tone, but wandering with a purpose. It was slow, as if she has invited you in and was giving you time to get settled in your seat in her home. But it wasn't so slow as to make you regret sitting down for a chat. That's really how Nell narrated the story, as if you were company in her home.
While the history with Jane is mentioned throughout the story in bits and pieces, this is a story all on its own. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Nell transform into her own -shedding the invisible skin of the church, but not quite a federal agent. She is stuck somewhere in between, not really sure if she's allowed to not be either or to be both, until she makes the decision to be herself.
I like the fact that we get to know the characters, villains and good guys (and those in between) as well as the ins and out of the Psyled team at the same rate that Nell learns them. Another way that Hunter has allowed us to be a part of the story. This was not just a simple case of rooting out the bad guys and then catching them and saving the girl. Secrets were uncovered, the shady side of the cult was uncovered, reconnecting with family, and bonding with a found family all happen. There is so much more than meets the eye with this story.
The action, the violence and the deaths, just enough to keep the story interesting without it becoming distasteful. I am so glad that I also have the next two books in the series for review.
5 stars
What you should know:
-This is the first in a new series.
-This is a spin-off series of the Jane Yellowrock series, though Jane is not in this book
-I have not read any of the other Yellowock novels
-There will at least be three, 3, boos in the SoulWood series.
-This is my first five-star book this year!
Always Shine!
I was a little hesitant with this book at being that it's a spin off from one of my favorite series. But I needn't have worried, the world in which this story takes place is just as dark and thrilling as the original series. I was happy to see that there were some familiar characters in this book. Those familiar characters really helped to bridge the gap between this new story and the one it spun off of. I am throughly happy with this book, it gets a four and a half stars from me!
Interesting, disturbing, twisted, compelling, and unexpected. Definitely a book you want to check out if you enjoy unusual stories.
TW: a lot of violence against women
TW: a lot of violence against women