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marktimmony's review against another edition
3.0
The third book in Ms Chan’s rip-roaring yarn of gods and demons, magic and science and martial arts, lives up to the promise of its predecessors and more. Our heroine Emma battles to discover her true nature and protect the daughter of the man she loves from the demons who would get at him through her death, while he, a 3,000-year-old God, struggles to retain enough energy to remain on the mortal plane and protect them both. Chan has a wonderful way about her writing where it just pulls you in and you literally race through to find out ‘what happens next.’ Filled with romantic tension, humour and vivid Matrixstyle martial arts action and magic, Chan opens up Chinese mythology to the Western mindset in the most accessible way I’ve come across.
This series is a lot of fun.
This series is a lot of fun.
celiaedf12's review
3.0
There was so much happening in this book - so many demon attacks, so many revelations about Emma's powers, that sometimes I felt quite lost. Chan's writing is sometimes a little stiff, and this is very much a grand romance novel with a good dollop of fantasy. I quite like the romance, and the Chinese mythology she uses as a basis for the fantasy element is unfamiliar and interesting enough to keep me reading. I'll be keeping an eye out for book 4 in 2009, but thankfully this book ended on a relatively satisfying note (and apparently there'll be a story gap of about 8 years between this book and the next) that I'm not overly anxious for the next volume.
kevinhanes's review
3.0
kinda glad there's no book 4. i like these enough to keep reading. but the author does enough repetition of the same goddamn phrase to irk me.
greymalkin's review
3.0
Still enjoyable but felt desperately in need of an editor. It felt like certain scenes/situations repeated again and again...and again... She would get horribly wounded and be "okay" the next day. She'd manifest some amazing new power and angst over it. Am I human? came up possibly every chapter, it got a little wearisome. So too did the endless "but yo're not a demon oh wait you're a special kind of demon we can't detect" nonsense that repeated so many times that it became a little bit of a joke. The ending was also rather flat and unrewarding. Felt like an epilogue, not the climactic last battle. I'll still read the second trilogy, but hopefully her editor can pull the plot threads back in line so they don't just wander around.
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