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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cancer, Genocide, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, Car accident
I’m currently in a reading slump and still managed to read this within 24h, this is how entertaining the book was!
I think one of the reasons is how well this was paced, as well as having a extremely likable MC (which I feel like it’s getting harder and harder to come by). Ah! Also loved her family and how close they were.
The cover made me scared to read this but I’m glad I did. Of course it is not without its faults, Nevada’s constant inner monologues about how attracted she was, but shouldn’t be and yadayadayada to Connor was annoying and there’s quite a lot of plot holes, which could be explained in the later installments, but still managed to bother me. Nonetheless this was a fun and an enjoyable read!!!
I think one of the reasons is how well this was paced, as well as having a extremely likable MC (which I feel like it’s getting harder and harder to come by). Ah! Also loved her family and how close they were.
The cover made me scared to read this but I’m glad I did. Of course it is not without its faults, Nevada’s constant inner monologues about how attracted she was, but shouldn’t be and yadayadayada to Connor was annoying and there’s quite a lot of plot holes, which could be explained in the later installments, but still managed to bother me. Nonetheless this was a fun and an enjoyable read!!!
I really really didn't care about this. I may come back to it if I'm interested in an urban fantasy setting but right now nope
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Action packed book. I listened to the graphic audio and it was very well done.
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Re-read 2025. Wow, over 8 years since I last read this. I am amazed, I thought it was more recent. I needed a comfort read, aka I couldn’t make up my mind what audiobook to pick next. Voila, first time in unabridged audio, narrated by Renée Raudman. Magneto Mad Rogan has a pretty unattractive voice. Took me a while to get used to it. But other than that this flew by in no time and I remembered a surprising amount of details. I had fun.
+*+*+
Re-read 2016, before book #2 comes out.
“The name is Mad Rogan. They also call me the Butcher and the Scourge, but Mad is the most frequently used moniker.”
Nevada Baylor sounds like Kate Daniels. Or perhaps they both sound like Ilona Andrews. The setting might be different and their magic, too. But other than that they feel the same.
I find Mad Rogan more interesting than Curran Lennart, though.
This time around I had no problems to get hooked by the story. Once I started, it was hard to put this down and only my own, feeble body prevented me from reading through the night to finish this.
The cover is still hideous, but I am willing to agree that it is a little bit PNR...
*~*~*
Read first in April 2015, original review:
I once read an adventure novel set on the ocean. The book cover featured waves with a drifting oil drum. The book was a 1000-page hummer of a book, but nowhere in there was an oil drum mentioned, drifting or otherwise. On my list of most-idiotic-book-covers-of-all-time Burn For Me has beaten this book and taken top spot on the list.
If you are a fan of PNR and don't know Ilona Andrews, fair warning: this book is great fun, I loved it and can't wait for the sequel, but this is NOT paranormal romance in any shape or form. The designers at Avon must have smoked something really strong, when they came up with this cover. As strange as it sounds, guys ripping of their shirts every five minutes do not make a romance novel.
Ok, now, book...
I read a review that called the world building shoddy. Perhaps I am not critical enough and too fangirly, when Ilona Andrews is concerned, but I liked the world building. It told me everything I needed to know to get a good picture, there were no needlessly long info dumps and it fitted neatly into the plot.
The plot got going a tad slowly. Meaning not everything went BAM! on page two already. But it's a new series, so a little setting-the-scene is to be expected. Also I didn't read the beginning in one sitting, but with some stops. It might have influenced my perception of it.
I like the idea of Houses with different talents. It reminded me a little of the second book of the Kinship stories, as it toys with a similar set-up. The Pit reminded me of Bayou Moon.
Nevada's family is to die for, the lot of them. Grandma is fabulous and I love the warehouse with its beehive of rooms stacked on each other and grandmother's lair of tanks and assault vehicles.
All the characters work well and get enough of a backstory to be colourful and interesting. The two main male characters are idiotically handsome and, as mentioned, keep ripping their shirts off at every opportunity. I am thinking Hugh Jackman as Mad Rogan? By the way, does anybody else keep thinking of Indian food, every time his name is mentioned?
You never really get to see the bad guys that hold the strings, I am guessing they will either pop up in the sequel or we will have to suffer through one of those dragged out story archs that take several books to resolve. I hope not, because those tend to annoy and bore the crap out of me by the third installment.
The book has a proper high-stakes ending with a lot of suspense, but the story is not really resolved. It's the first book in a series and the somewhat open ending and some other loose, dangling ends scream for the sequel. Half a year of waiting, argh! I almost took off a rating star just for that, but ultimately I had too much fun for that.
+*+*+
Re-read 2016, before book #2 comes out.
“The name is Mad Rogan. They also call me the Butcher and the Scourge, but Mad is the most frequently used moniker.”
Nevada Baylor sounds like Kate Daniels. Or perhaps they both sound like Ilona Andrews. The setting might be different and their magic, too. But other than that they feel the same.
I find Mad Rogan more interesting than Curran Lennart, though.
This time around I had no problems to get hooked by the story. Once I started, it was hard to put this down and only my own, feeble body prevented me from reading through the night to finish this.
The cover is still hideous, but I am willing to agree that it is a little bit PNR...
*~*~*
Read first in April 2015, original review:
I once read an adventure novel set on the ocean. The book cover featured waves with a drifting oil drum. The book was a 1000-page hummer of a book, but nowhere in there was an oil drum mentioned, drifting or otherwise. On my list of most-idiotic-book-covers-of-all-time Burn For Me has beaten this book and taken top spot on the list.
If you are a fan of PNR and don't know Ilona Andrews, fair warning: this book is great fun, I loved it and can't wait for the sequel, but this is NOT paranormal romance in any shape or form. The designers at Avon must have smoked something really strong, when they came up with this cover. As strange as it sounds, guys ripping of their shirts every five minutes do not make a romance novel.
Ok, now, book...
I read a review that called the world building shoddy. Perhaps I am not critical enough and too fangirly, when Ilona Andrews is concerned, but I liked the world building. It told me everything I needed to know to get a good picture, there were no needlessly long info dumps and it fitted neatly into the plot.
The plot got going a tad slowly. Meaning not everything went BAM! on page two already. But it's a new series, so a little setting-the-scene is to be expected. Also I didn't read the beginning in one sitting, but with some stops. It might have influenced my perception of it.
I like the idea of Houses with different talents. It reminded me a little of the second book of the Kinship stories, as it toys with a similar set-up. The Pit reminded me of Bayou Moon.
Nevada's family is to die for, the lot of them. Grandma is fabulous and I love the warehouse with its beehive of rooms stacked on each other and grandmother's lair of tanks and assault vehicles.
All the characters work well and get enough of a backstory to be colourful and interesting. The two main male characters are idiotically handsome and, as mentioned, keep ripping their shirts off at every opportunity. I am thinking Hugh Jackman as Mad Rogan? By the way, does anybody else keep thinking of Indian food, every time his name is mentioned?
You never really get to see the bad guys that hold the strings, I am guessing they will either pop up in the sequel or we will have to suffer through one of those dragged out story archs that take several books to resolve. I hope not, because those tend to annoy and bore the crap out of me by the third installment.
The book has a proper high-stakes ending with a lot of suspense, but the story is not really resolved. It's the first book in a series and the somewhat open ending and some other loose, dangling ends scream for the sequel. Half a year of waiting, argh! I almost took off a rating star just for that, but ultimately I had too much fun for that.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
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