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rogue_lurker's review
Ugh. If I were going to rate this one, I'd grudgingly give it one star.
This should have been a DNF but I'm in the midst of a review challenge with someone and forced myself to finish. This book has gotten good reviews and I'm wondering if it is just me.
When I read the blurb and saw some reveiws I was looking forward to a campy and fun creature feature - with a nice steamy romance. The cover reminded me of the old fanfic covers people used to photoshop pics of Xena/Gabrielle onto DIY covers - tacky as hell, but you knew that they loved what they were writing and readers loved the stories. I was sorely disappointed.
The book tried to be a lot of things and didn't deliver on any of them. This is a paranormal book that couldn't even settle on what kind of paranormal it wanted to explore - Bigfoot, giant squid, hauntings, ghosts, possession ... pick one. There's a romance between the two MC but it just didn't work - no lead up either than one character staring at the other's breasts and thinking her big ass looked good in polyester - and there was no chemistry between them to speak of. Most disappointing was that Lexi, the Karellian Bear Dog, was underused and didn't really move any of the plot forward. Instead the dog (remember, that this is the Lex Files), just wandered around giving kisses and cadging treats and even then didn't endear herself to me enough to make me want to keep reading for the dog scenes - and I am a sucker for dogs.
The characters were flat and I couldn't give a rat's ass about either of them. Win was particularly unlikable and I thought that if I gave it a chance, she'd win me over - but no - she started as an asshole and continued as an unprofessional and boorish ass. I can't figure out what attracted either of them to one another - no chemistry, no investment, no reason for them to get together.
Sometimes a book I'm reading that has a less than stellar plot or unlikable characters can be saved by the writer's style/narrative. If the writing is good, I'll forgive a lot. Unfortunately, the writing style didn't work for me either - sometimes disjointed, sometimes sentence structure was just awkward and jarring.
This was definitely a miss for me. Big miss.
This should have been a DNF but I'm in the midst of a review challenge with someone and forced myself to finish. This book has gotten good reviews and I'm wondering if it is just me.
When I read the blurb and saw some reveiws I was looking forward to a campy and fun creature feature - with a nice steamy romance. The cover reminded me of the old fanfic covers people used to photoshop pics of Xena/Gabrielle onto DIY covers - tacky as hell, but you knew that they loved what they were writing and readers loved the stories. I was sorely disappointed.
The book tried to be a lot of things and didn't deliver on any of them. This is a paranormal book that couldn't even settle on what kind of paranormal it wanted to explore - Bigfoot, giant squid, hauntings, ghosts, possession ... pick one. There's a romance between the two MC but it just didn't work - no lead up either than one character staring at the other's breasts and thinking her big ass looked good in polyester - and there was no chemistry between them to speak of. Most disappointing was that Lexi, the Karellian Bear Dog, was underused and didn't really move any of the plot forward. Instead the dog (remember, that this is the Lex Files), just wandered around giving kisses and cadging treats and even then didn't endear herself to me enough to make me want to keep reading for the dog scenes - and I am a sucker for dogs.
The characters were flat and I couldn't give a rat's ass about either of them. Win was particularly unlikable and I thought that if I gave it a chance, she'd win me over - but no - she started as an asshole and continued as an unprofessional and boorish ass. I can't figure out what attracted either of them to one another - no chemistry, no investment, no reason for them to get together.
Sometimes a book I'm reading that has a less than stellar plot or unlikable characters can be saved by the writer's style/narrative. If the writing is good, I'll forgive a lot. Unfortunately, the writing style didn't work for me either - sometimes disjointed, sometimes sentence structure was just awkward and jarring.
This was definitely a miss for me. Big miss.
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