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tcgarback's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
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Critical Score: C
Personal Score: C+
This is an improvement on the first book, but it’s still lackluster. I don’t like how heavy the spiritualism is, and the plot is too similar to the first book’s. The first half was pretty strong, but the second half got bogged down in the mythology and an unoriginal series of showdowns.
Critical Score: C
Personal Score: C+
This is an improvement on the first book, but it’s still lackluster. I don’t like how heavy the spiritualism is, and the plot is too similar to the first book’s. The first half was pretty strong, but the second half got bogged down in the mythology and an unoriginal series of showdowns.
navayiota's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
A lot better than the first one, although the whole time I was aching for more time with Krishna and Yaksha, or stories of the past like with Harold. Those were the times the book was really interesting, and the pages turned fast. The YA romance/action thing doesn't work well here, it was stale and I was rolling my eyes at how emotional and naive a 5,000 year old vampire was being. The relationships weren't nearly enough fleshed out to get a reaction out of me, and I love romance stories, so it's not like it wasn't the right genre for me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment and Medical content
jselliot's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
irridessa's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Mental illness
Minor: Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, and Violence
kerveros's review
2.0
Although the first book in the series mostly held up to my memory this one was not as good... on the plus side Ray did die, and Yaksha has a cameo! .
Sita was, in the first book quite moral - at least to her own sense of right and wrong, but the events at the end of this book (and by this I mean hersaving Joel by turning him into a vampire seem to go against the events of the first - even she herself thinks she has lost Krishnas grace (though that is more looked into in Red Dice, the third book in the series).
Eddie isn't as interesting a villain as Yaksha was - he seems more like a henchman as opposed to a 'big bad'... I also don't understand how he is able to cope with the changes his vampiric powers bring in such a short period of time.
This never was my favourite book but it didn't 'age' as well as the first...
Sita was, in the first book quite moral - at least to her own sense of right and wrong, but the events at the end of this book (and by this I mean her
Eddie isn't as interesting a villain as Yaksha was - he seems more like a henchman as opposed to a 'big bad'... I also don't understand how he is able to cope with the changes his vampiric powers bring in such a short period of time.
This never was my favourite book but it didn't 'age' as well as the first...
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