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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Okay, despite my early grumblings about the heroine, Jace Valchek, I did end up liking her well enough by the end. She's dealing with a lot of change in a very short time, being snatched from her own dimension and plunked down in a similar but alternate dimension. The secondary characters we're introduced to seem likeable enough but I feel like we never really got to know any of them very well. This book wasn't great but as a first book it wasn't bad either. The resolution to the problem at hand was a bit simplistic considering what they were dealing with and it smacked a bit of deux a machina to me. However, there are definite things to build on and I'm curious enough to go ahead and read the next book.
There was not a lot of romance in this book so if that's your main draw to a book then this probably won't do it for you. There are three male characters that Jace meets that could be potential love interests but we don't really get to spend much time with any of them - or rather Jace doesn't get to spend much 1:1 time with any of them - to really matter. This goes back to the author needing to flesh out the secondary characters better and hopefully this will happen in the next book. Jace does have sex in this book but it happens off the page so...yeah.
But, like I said, there are areas to build upon and improve and I'll be checking out book two to see how it fares.
There was not a lot of romance in this book so if that's your main draw to a book then this probably won't do it for you. There are three male characters that Jace meets that could be potential love interests but we don't really get to spend much time with any of them - or rather Jace doesn't get to spend much 1:1 time with any of them - to really matter. This goes back to the author needing to flesh out the secondary characters better and hopefully this will happen in the next book. Jace does have sex in this book but it happens off the page so...yeah.
But, like I said, there are areas to build upon and improve and I'll be checking out book two to see how it fares.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Vampires, were-animals, witches and golems, not to mention a fantastic human protagonist and a great story-line...just the sort of fiction I most enjoy to read these days. I placed holds on the next five books in the series at the library and can't wait to read more. :)
This was an interesting beginning to a series, I thought the concept was quite unique but at the same time I felt as though this book was just ok. None of the characters really resonated with me.
I don't particularly like the urban fantasy cop novels where the cop feels like they have something to prove. Mostly Jace annoyed me. And the romantic story lines exacerbated the issue.
This was an odd book for me - odd in the sense that while I didn't / still don't really care for the protagonist, and the worldbuilding, while fascinating, had too many holes in and/or things that just plain didn't make sense or work for me, it still managed to capture me pretty intensely.
I absolutely adored Charlie, though. So there's an extra star there for him. And the plot and ... well, everything, really, while not convincing me completely, was enough to make me wishlist the second book in the series when I was only 60% or so into this one, and buy it the moment I was done, so... Something in this one obviously does work for me!
I absolutely adored Charlie, though. So there's an extra star there for him. And the plot and ... well, everything, really, while not convincing me completely, was enough to make me wishlist the second book in the series when I was only 60% or so into this one, and buy it the moment I was done, so... Something in this one obviously does work for me!