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maidmarianlib's review
3.0
Continues the character development well. Lots of action, still a lot of questions left unanswered.
tinygorgon's review
3.0
It's fine? Fairly standard Girl Has All The Powers dystopia lit; as a mythology geek I'm largely sticking with the series to see how various and sundry monsters manifest in this take.
Solid library find, wouldn't buy outright.
Solid library find, wouldn't buy outright.
jenandtonic's review
4.0
I'm really enjoying this series! This book had a lot more battle in it and I felt like the author hammed up Joy's paranoia a bit. But I'm enjoying following her growth and the titles make sense now.
cgirl98's review
4.0
Good bridge in the series. Built more on the world and magic and gave hints of more mystery behind the scenes. I feel like the 3rd book will surprise me.
hannibelle's review
3.0
Boring. Nothing happens! It's just a long string of fight scenes, and when the characters aren't fighting, the protagonist is always crying for reasons that are stated, but don't really feel genuine. The character says she's homesick, but it just doesn't feel like she is. Also, in this particular book the protagonist "discovers" a certain talent of the Hunters that I...kind of assumed was always the case, because it seemed like a really obvious conclusion to draw based off all the other information given? But apparently none of the other Hunters in all the hundreds of years that they have been fighting ever thought of this particular, game-changing ability.
Yeah, okay. If you say so, I guess. But now with this little discovery, it is all the more painfully apparent how "ingenious" the protagonist is supposed to be, even though all of her discoveries are so mundane or the line of reasoning behind them so obvious that all the other characters must be idiots to have not come up with these things long before.
Anyway, there wasn't much here. I just read this a few days ago and I already forgot what the plot was, although having finished the final book I can safely say I'm not even sure that there was a real plot, since that book didn't really have anything going for it in that department. I still liked this book well enough, but it is too dang shallow and the author just doesn't want to dive deeper into this world she has created. It's a darn shame, because it seems like it would be really interesting if she would just take us further into this world!
Yeah, okay. If you say so, I guess. But now with this little discovery, it is all the more painfully apparent how "ingenious" the protagonist is supposed to be, even though all of her discoveries are so mundane or the line of reasoning behind them so obvious that all the other characters must be idiots to have not come up with these things long before.
Anyway, there wasn't much here. I just read this a few days ago and I already forgot what the plot was, although having finished the final book I can safely say I'm not even sure that there was a real plot, since that book didn't really have anything going for it in that department. I still liked this book well enough, but it is too dang shallow and the author just doesn't want to dive deeper into this world she has created. It's a darn shame, because it seems like it would be really interesting if she would just take us further into this world!
nuluala's review
4.0
Another very readable, fast-paced book by Lackey. I've seen other comments complaining about Joy's characterisation but I actually really like her mix of humility and self-awareness about her own abilities.
terrafyd's review
4.0
I love this world of mythical monsters, elven like bad folk and a modern post apocalyptic Era with guns and magic. I cant wait to read the next book!
oneoftheemilies's review
5.0
Wow. This book was a perfect continuation of the last book. So much happened and so much changed. I can’t wait to read the next book!