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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Honestly, this wasn't the worst in the series. I honestly loved Nyx telling Zoey to grow up. It's been a looooong time coming.
I'm over all of this "switching" teams goofiness. My prediction is that Erin will come back to the group in the upcoming novels somewhere.
Neferet is boring. We need a new villain.
I'm over all of this "switching" teams goofiness. My prediction is that Erin will come back to the group in the upcoming novels somewhere.
Neferet is boring. We need a new villain.
Don't really read YA anymore...but never disappointed from this series!
The story is being predictable though I liked that they improved things that didn’t go their way.
I received this book as a hostess gift for helping out with a friends baby shower.
I'd never heard of the authors before or the book so, heck, I am willing to give anything new a shot!
This book was just 'ok' for me.
I think that it's a book written more for the young adult crowd, and unlike some other YA books and series, it really doesn't 'span the ages' as others do. So I found it kind of boring.
It's demons, vampires, 'Red Fledglings' which are a new type of vampire. They have connections to life forces though, such as Earth, Fire and Water. Thats a nifty take on the story and a little interesting. I found a nice moral in it about the fact that just because your life is bad or you're expected to be bad/evil, that you can still choose to overcome all of that and choose light and success in the 'good' department. Choose to be a good person.
Anyhow. There is supposed to be another book in the series that came out Fall of 2013, but, unless I am lacking in other books I probably won't waste my time on it ..
-Cj
I'd never heard of the authors before or the book so, heck, I am willing to give anything new a shot!
This book was just 'ok' for me.
I think that it's a book written more for the young adult crowd, and unlike some other YA books and series, it really doesn't 'span the ages' as others do. So I found it kind of boring.
It's demons, vampires, 'Red Fledglings' which are a new type of vampire. They have connections to life forces though, such as Earth, Fire and Water. Thats a nifty take on the story and a little interesting. I found a nice moral in it about the fact that just because your life is bad or you're expected to be bad/evil, that you can still choose to overcome all of that and choose light and success in the 'good' department. Choose to be a good person.
Anyhow. There is supposed to be another book in the series that came out Fall of 2013, but, unless I am lacking in other books I probably won't waste my time on it ..
-Cj
I felt like there were too many narrator's. It gets confusing sometimes because you have to remember each character's story line when it's their turn to narrate again. Also, "retard" is just not used anymore. It's insensitive and was used way too often in this book. Editing could have been better. Perhaps "douche" would suffice. All in all, I'm curious to know what happens and will continue reading, but I'm not as excited as I've been on previous books in the series.
As usual a lot happens; many great ideas are started, characters all continue to develop. But the plot also continues with its method of Lots of Shit Happening in Little Time and after 2/3rds of the book spent growing the characters nicely (though I always want more) and developing neat ideas on how to address the question of Neferet the last 1/3rd spirals into an action-esque Go-Go-GO! sequence that leaves all previous threads dangling. Felt like a good set-up to a full novel basically and leaves you really wanting more depth and more action and just...MORE! Some of the small novellas that the authors are putting out are fun to fill in some of the side-character lives but I'm really left wishing after this one that more of the lingering threads could have been resolved or even addressed more. At this point so much yet so little happens in each book I feel like I'm reading a Soap Opera...
*Spoilers*
Some problems I had with this include the bringing back of Heath who is freaking DEAD by linking his spirit somehow to Aurox. Not only because; seriously come on; he's dead, let's move ON! But also because we're somehow bringing HIM back but sweet, brave, amazing Jack, boyfriend to Damein, is so easily brushed off as permanently DEAD-DEAD and, bear in mind it's only been a couple days since his MURDER, Damien is ALREADY trying to convince himself it is okay to move on and flirt with other guys? Very inconsistent and makes the one non-hetro character seem like nothing more than the awful stereotype of a fickle gay man. Especially in light of how One Love Ever we see other vamps being (Dragon, Anastasia, Lenobia ALL come to mind here).
Then, we have how SILLY this book made Neferet's evil yet nonsensical actions seem. I'm not sure if the authors are trying to downplay her evil this time around to make her seem slightly pitiable but really, kidnapping Zoey's grandma to make Zoey weaker? Dude; you just brazenly murdered the girl's mother, used that sacrifice to create a Vessel of Darkness and you think kidnapping the strong grandma character is somehow going to break Zoey? The main character's mind is so scattered between all her boy troubles and trying to be a high-priestess and petty school squabble crap to really let such things affect her; whiny and snot-dribbling though she may be she has a LOT of goddess-given power and strength that the divine entities keep using to remind the girl to stop crying, suck it up, and do something.
I'm still bothered by the fact that we couldn't just have an awesome blind character added to the mix and the authors felt like instead this first Red-Marked vamp had to be "cured" of her affliction. It would have been far more interesting to weave this character into the story as-is and add just a small smattering of diversity in that arena.
Things to enjoy: I'm loving the separation of the Twins into unique entities. Erin heading towards true evil/darkness was not something I saw coming and was interesting to read a small bit about. As another reviewer stated though; there are a LOT of points of view shared across the book so we really only get a tiny taste of any character development; even the interesting ones.
The authors finally toned down the whole "Let's elaborate the entire ritual details for every ritual in excruciating detail" bit so that those passages were a LOT more enjoyable. Granted I was reading instead of listening this time but I wasn't skimming like crazy through those parts.
*Spoilers*
Some problems I had with this include the bringing back of Heath who is freaking DEAD by linking his spirit somehow to Aurox. Not only because; seriously come on; he's dead, let's move ON! But also because we're somehow bringing HIM back but sweet, brave, amazing Jack, boyfriend to Damein, is so easily brushed off as permanently DEAD-DEAD and, bear in mind it's only been a couple days since his MURDER, Damien is ALREADY trying to convince himself it is okay to move on and flirt with other guys? Very inconsistent and makes the one non-hetro character seem like nothing more than the awful stereotype of a fickle gay man. Especially in light of how One Love Ever we see other vamps being (Dragon, Anastasia, Lenobia ALL come to mind here).
Then, we have how SILLY this book made Neferet's evil yet nonsensical actions seem. I'm not sure if the authors are trying to downplay her evil this time around to make her seem slightly pitiable but really, kidnapping Zoey's grandma to make Zoey weaker? Dude; you just brazenly murdered the girl's mother, used that sacrifice to create a Vessel of Darkness and you think kidnapping the strong grandma character is somehow going to break Zoey? The main character's mind is so scattered between all her boy troubles and trying to be a high-priestess and petty school squabble crap to really let such things affect her; whiny and snot-dribbling though she may be she has a LOT of goddess-given power and strength that the divine entities keep using to remind the girl to stop crying, suck it up, and do something.
I'm still bothered by the fact that we couldn't just have an awesome blind character added to the mix and the authors felt like instead this first Red-Marked vamp had to be "cured" of her affliction. It would have been far more interesting to weave this character into the story as-is and add just a small smattering of diversity in that arena.
Things to enjoy: I'm loving the separation of the Twins into unique entities. Erin heading towards true evil/darkness was not something I saw coming and was interesting to read a small bit about. As another reviewer stated though; there are a LOT of points of view shared across the book so we really only get a tiny taste of any character development; even the interesting ones.
The authors finally toned down the whole "Let's elaborate the entire ritual details for every ritual in excruciating detail" bit so that those passages were a LOT more enjoyable. Granted I was reading instead of listening this time but I wasn't skimming like crazy through those parts.
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
adventurous
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes