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kstep1805's review against another edition
3.0
I like to read others' reviews and there were a couple spot on. This book was dull and the writing ridiculously wordy, taking thirty words to subtlety describe some key point that should take ten in a straightforward way. I ended up having to reread portions just to make sense of the story. Someone else mentioned "weapons porn" and yep, too many words were wasted on weapons that I don't care about. Is this series becoming too protracted? I guess the next book will tell us for sure. There are too many characters, too many plots within plots, too little action.
delaneybull's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
wilmaknickersfit's review against another edition
5.0
Hooked on this series now and it is right up there when it comes to UF that is not also Paranormal Romance - if you know what I mean!
hippolyta's review against another edition
3.0
Ooops. My mistake to start on the 5th book in the series...
setaian's review against another edition
4.0
The ending to Death's Rival (Jane Yellowrock #5) annoyed me. I was seriously thinking of giving up on the series and if I had to wait a year for Blood trade I probably would have. But I finished Death's Rival on the 26th of March and less than a week later I had Blood Trade in my hands.
Blood Trade is great. It has everything I love about this series and thankfully no cliffhanger. Jane Yellowrock is battling vampires that are evolving into hideous insect like super-vamps, and not having much luck killing them.
It's seat of your pants urban fantasy at it's very best and a good example of why I think Faith Hunter is so much better than her main competition.
Blood Trade is great. It has everything I love about this series and thankfully no cliffhanger. Jane Yellowrock is battling vampires that are evolving into hideous insect like super-vamps, and not having much luck killing them.
It's seat of your pants urban fantasy at it's very best and a good example of why I think Faith Hunter is so much better than her main competition.
colls's review against another edition
3.0
This was more of the same in a series that's starting to lose it's mojo. I'm unsure if I'll bother continuing or not.
leelah's review against another edition
3.0
Jane Yellowrock is one of those series I kept seeing everywhere, right up there with my favorites, but it took me forever to give it try. So, binge reading! :)
Blood Trade - 3 stars
State of me after book #6:
[b:Blood Trade|15732001|Blood Trade (Jane Yellowrock, #6)|Faith Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1354157936s/15732001.jpg|21412444] was very much continuation of previous book both in plot and staggering character development.
MOC Natchez, Hieronymus, hired Jane to deal with Allyon's leftover Naturaleza vamps, but she realizes that there is something odd about these rabid vampires.
It's with this book I realized that I am able to overlook quibbles about Jane (or they don't bother me) when plot is engaging and keeps my eyes glued to pages. If that's not the case, everything starts crumbling like sand castle.
I really didn't like plot of previous book.
Or to be precise, I didn't like plot progression since Jane (and reader) was going in circles.
It happens here as well.
She would bust one house with vampires only to get one piece of information that's so insubstantial it simply doesn't justify her effort nor pages wasted. I felt like Jane didn't do anything for most of the time despite her going places and asking questions and Kid hacking.:\
Jane comes to Natchez, sees vamps and then we spend big chunk of time on her complicated inner monologue about her love life. It's like investigation and spidey-vamps is happening around other things in her life instead of being the main focal point of the story.
Speaking of Natchez Naturaleza:
Love triangle doesn't work for me here at all. At one point she goes sulking because Rick is talking to girl over phone and she is jealous, only 50pgs later to tell Rick that jealousy is not attractive when he asked her about Bruiser. I also need to see Bruiser having some agency. Little independence in fact, not just in word, since him missing for half a book doing something we were never explained is exasperating. Teenage, highschool "I want him, but can't have him and I want all the boys" is kind of tiring at this point. Considering the dark and serious uf tone of books her romance life is liek Taylor Swift song at RATM concert.
Please, I hope to God she will make her decision soon. (-_-)
Story goes back again to original myth of vampires, but for me it got interesting when Evan Trueblood appeared. Witches storylines were great so far in series and I was delighted to see him again. I really hope we will move somewhat from vamps and go to other sups in next book.
On to [b:Black Arts|17566969|Black Arts (Jane Yellowrock, #7)|Faith Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1371494099s/17566969.jpg|24502785].
Blood Trade - 3 stars
State of me after book #6:
[b:Blood Trade|15732001|Blood Trade (Jane Yellowrock, #6)|Faith Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1354157936s/15732001.jpg|21412444] was very much continuation of previous book both in plot and staggering character development.
MOC Natchez, Hieronymus, hired Jane to deal with Allyon's leftover Naturaleza vamps, but she realizes that there is something odd about these rabid vampires.
It's with this book I realized that I am able to overlook quibbles about Jane (or they don't bother me) when plot is engaging and keeps my eyes glued to pages. If that's not the case, everything starts crumbling like sand castle.
I really didn't like plot of previous book.
Or to be precise, I didn't like plot progression since Jane (and reader) was going in circles.
It happens here as well.
She would bust one house with vampires only to get one piece of information that's so insubstantial it simply doesn't justify her effort nor pages wasted. I felt like Jane didn't do anything for most of the time despite her going places and asking questions and Kid hacking.:\
Jane comes to Natchez, sees vamps and then we spend big chunk of time on her complicated inner monologue about her love life. It's like investigation and spidey-vamps is happening around other things in her life instead of being the main focal point of the story.
Speaking of Natchez Naturaleza:
Spoiler
We NEVER got explanation on why are they insect-like. Why did they turn into insects and not something else? At one point, because Jane mentioned that Allyon was able to control his vampires easy I thought there was some kind of bee and hive thing going on since it was mentioned that one vamp had hornet colors. My explanation at least make sense on why were they looking and moving the way they were instead of unexplained resolution we got.Love triangle doesn't work for me here at all. At one point she goes sulking because Rick is talking to girl over phone and she is jealous, only 50pgs later to tell Rick that jealousy is not attractive when he asked her about Bruiser. I also need to see Bruiser having some agency. Little independence in fact, not just in word, since him missing for half a book doing something we were never explained is exasperating. Teenage, highschool "I want him, but can't have him and I want all the boys" is kind of tiring at this point. Considering the dark and serious uf tone of books her romance life is liek Taylor Swift song at RATM concert.
Please, I hope to God she will make her decision soon. (-_-)
Story goes back again to original myth of vampires, but for me it got interesting when Evan Trueblood appeared.
Spoiler
The fact they had honest conversation is the best thing about this book since it's overdue and I needed that in book #5 to happen. Jane can't be blamed considering the circumstances and if Molly couldn't see that than their friendship is not what we were told it is since book #1.On to [b:Black Arts|17566969|Black Arts (Jane Yellowrock, #7)|Faith Hunter|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1371494099s/17566969.jpg|24502785].
amyiw's review against another edition
4.0
So this was really good. The story arc from the last 5 books comes to a close here though really I didn't know that there was an arc or anything that was binding them until we come partially through this one. You need to read the books preceding it to understand the whole, so don't start with this one.
Still even with a pretty good read, I'm not taken by Jane Yellowrock. I have friends that love Beast and their relationship. I have friends that love the relationships she wants but doesn't seem to ever get. I have friends that just love the mythology and Jane's kissassness. I would like to say that I feel all that but I just don't. I keep feeling like I should feel more but I don't. I think it is a good series, it just doesn't click with me as great. I feel like I've read out of my genre, a really good read but not what I would choose to pick up. Strange as it is my genre. I love Kate Daniel and Mercy Thompson so why not Jane? I cannot put my finger on it. Part might be that there is always love interests that she fights the attraction and more than one. None come to fruition even though we are 6 books in. Each of the 3 (4) interests, Bruiser, Leo, Rick, and maybe Eli (no more), have big red x marks for me in the way she describes them, yet she and Beast are still yearning and arguing over the 3. To me it is a distraction and annoying. Then there is her self blame, well in this one, she pretty much has dropped it! Yea! I didn't connect with one of her books just because she had so much misplaced self blame. I didn't feel that in this and felt like she had moved on. Maybe if the love square resolves, I would connect more with Jane.
Still even with a pretty good read, I'm not taken by Jane Yellowrock. I have friends that love Beast and their relationship. I have friends that love the relationships she wants but doesn't seem to ever get. I have friends that just love the mythology and Jane's kissassness. I would like to say that I feel all that but I just don't. I keep feeling like I should feel more but I don't. I think it is a good series, it just doesn't click with me as great. I feel like I've read out of my genre, a really good read but not what I would choose to pick up. Strange as it is my genre. I love Kate Daniel and Mercy Thompson so why not Jane? I cannot put my finger on it. Part might be that there is always love interests that she fights the attraction and more than one. None come to fruition even though we are 6 books in. Each of the 3 (4) interests, Bruiser, Leo, Rick, and maybe Eli (no more), have big red x marks for me in the way she describes them, yet she and Beast are still yearning and arguing over the 3. To me it is a distraction and annoying. Then there is her self blame, well in this one, she pretty much has dropped it! Yea! I didn't connect with one of her books just because she had so much misplaced self blame. I didn't feel that in this and felt like she had moved on. Maybe if the love square resolves, I would connect more with Jane.
bookfessional's review against another edition
4.0
I love Faith Hunter, and Jane will always be one of my favorite kick-ass heroines, BUT . . . this latest installment was not my favorite.
Jane is in a new city. By itself, that's not terrible.
Jane was in Asheville in Raven Cursed, but Natchez, Mississippi is different. Jane has no ties to Natchez. Asheville, on the other hand, is where Jane learned the ropes of her security trade, and it's also home to Molly and her entire extended family.
In Asheville, Leo was still a big presence despite his remaining in New Orleans for most of the book.
In Natchez, there is an entirely new MOC, almost no Leo, and the new MOC is not particularly likable. He's not particularly unlikable either. He's not much of anything, which is part of the problem.
So new place with new secondaries, and not a lot of groundwork laid to make you like it.
ALSO--there seriously needs to be a turning point with either Ricky-bo or Bruiser. This is book 6 and there is still no definitive progress. COME ON. You gotta give us something.
All that being said, I will continue to read this series, b/c Jane is frickin' awesome, and I hope that one day she will get her own version of HEA, and I want to read it when she does.
Jane is in a new city. By itself, that's not terrible.
Jane was in Asheville in Raven Cursed, but Natchez, Mississippi is different. Jane has no ties to Natchez. Asheville, on the other hand, is where Jane learned the ropes of her security trade, and it's also home to Molly and her entire extended family.
In Asheville, Leo was still a big presence despite his remaining in New Orleans for most of the book.
In Natchez, there is an entirely new MOC, almost no Leo, and the new MOC is not particularly likable. He's not particularly unlikable either. He's not much of anything, which is part of the problem.
So new place with new secondaries, and not a lot of groundwork laid to make you like it.
ALSO--there seriously needs to be a turning point with either Ricky-bo or Bruiser. This is book 6 and there is still no definitive progress. COME ON. You gotta give us something.
All that being said, I will continue to read this series, b/c Jane is frickin' awesome, and I hope that one day she will get her own version of HEA, and I want to read it when she does.
kelic's review against another edition
5.0
I really liked this one. I like who Jane is becoming, that she's forgiving herself and not assuming fault or responsibility for actions outside of her control. Though I'm not religious, I'm fascinated where Jane's religious/spiritual journey will go. I love the growing complexities and nuances of each relationship, especially the ones related to Jane but not specifically. Each book just gets better. What a fantastic world Faith Hunter has created.