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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I give it a 3.5 and bumped it up because I liked William so much. I didn't like this as much as the first but not because the story was not a good story line, but because I wanted more family/William and less fighting, slash, slash, slash, 1,2,3. It got tiring. I would've rather hearing more about the end and epilogue. About the father, and about the consequences. I almost feel like this was incomplete yet it had too many pages. I give it a 4 1/2 for the story line and the relationship, but only 3, and a lower 3 for the graphic fight scenes that just went on too long. You know how you read a page and realize you totally zoned out... I did that way too much.
On reread, I again zoned out with the fighting and the lead up. Not enough character interaction, yet the interaction that there is has a lot of humor in places and thought out characters. Since I already know the characters that was not a gripping and I lost focus. On reread I might have only gave it a 3 but still think 3.5 is about right.
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January 31, 2013
February 25, 2017
On reread, I again zoned out with the fighting and the lead up. Not enough character interaction, yet the interaction that there is has a lot of humor in places and thought out characters. Since I already know the characters that was not a gripping and I lost focus. On reread I might have only gave it a 3 but still think 3.5 is about right.
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January 31, 2013
February 25, 2017
I really liked this story, more than [b:On the Edge|7528813|On the Edge (The Edge, #1)|Ilona Andrews|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275914570s/7528813.jpg|6515186]. The world that the series is written in (the Edge), gets even weirder in this book. There are many more strange types of creatures, some are enemies and some are family. The altered humans from the Hand (the ulitmate villian in Bayou Moon) are probably some of the weirdiest creatures I have ever read about.
I really like William. I liked him in On the Edge, and that only grew in Bayou Moon. I also like Grandma Az. She was a crafty old woman. Cerise has some very strange relative, but they are all loyal (with one exception).
I can't wait to read the next book. I still like the Kate Daniels series better ([b:Magic Slays|8559047|Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5)|Ilona Andrews|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1288727226s/8559047.jpg|13427398] comes out in June), but this series has gorwn in me with this book.
I really like William. I liked him in On the Edge, and that only grew in Bayou Moon. I also like Grandma Az. She was a crafty old woman. Cerise has some very strange relative, but they are all loyal (with one exception).
I can't wait to read the next book. I still like the Kate Daniels series better ([b:Magic Slays|8559047|Magic Slays (Kate Daniels, #5)|Ilona Andrews|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1288727226s/8559047.jpg|13427398] comes out in June), but this series has gorwn in me with this book.
4.75 Stars
Skillfully written. The realm of [b:Bayou Moon|7130616|Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2)|Ilona Andrews|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1307445460l/7130616._SY75_.jpg|7392860] is extremely well developed and easily lures you in. I swear I could feel the mud & mire between my toes. The strength and grit of Cerise to save her family emanates from the pages. You can feel her emotions and understand her thoughts. You want to stand beside her and cheer her and William on.
Great Read!
Skillfully written. The realm of [b:Bayou Moon|7130616|Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2)|Ilona Andrews|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1307445460l/7130616._SY75_.jpg|7392860] is extremely well developed and easily lures you in. I swear I could feel the mud & mire between my toes. The strength and grit of Cerise to save her family emanates from the pages. You can feel her emotions and understand her thoughts. You want to stand beside her and cheer her and William on.
Great Read!
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
This started out so promising. I really liked the swampy setting and I liked Cerise. However this book dragged on so long I thought it would kill me. It should have been about half the length it ended up being. And don’t get me started on William. He actually considers raping her and just ew. He just gave me the heebie geebies the whole book. Not sure I’m going to continue with this series.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
So here's the problem with Ilona rereads--I have a vague recollection of not liking this book as much as I usually like an Ilona book (still liked it, of course, but I think we've established that Ilona operates under a different set of standards), but I cannot, for the life of me, remember why . . .
Not much of a problem, I know (that's the point).
So we're back in the Edge. With William this time.<-----that's right, there's a POV change. FYI.
Two years have passed since we were last in the Edge, and it looks like William has just been sitting around, working construction in the Broken, and generally feeling sorry for himself.
Not that he doesn't have good cause. He's had a crap life so far, and Rose rejected him to go live in the Weird with Declan . . .
Poor William. *rolls eyes*
But when a representative of the Mirror (Adrianglia's version of the CIA) shows up on William's doorstep with evidence that his most loathed enemy (Spider) is slaughtering changeling children again (yes, again), he agrees to go undercover into the Mire, a nasty, swamp-like area of the Edge, to snatch whatever Spider is looking for, and hand it over to the Mirror.
Spider, you see, is an agent for the Hand (the Dukedom of Louisiana's version of the CIA), and Adrianglia and DoL are too evenly matched to engage in open warfare without massive losses on both sides, so instead they fight their war with spies and covert operations.<-----AWESOME.
The Mirror doesn't know what Spider is after, but anything the Hand wants as badly as it seems too, the Mirror will do everything in their power to keep from them.
Even send in a changeling like William.
Cerise Mar has lived in the Mire all her life. The Mire is a savage place, even for Edgers, and Cerise is a Mar, and the Mars are a force to be reckoned with. Her family is land rich and cash poor, and there are a LOT of them. Cerise's father has been the Head of the family since the previous Head, his elder brother, was shot in the head (insert bad pun), by a rival family, in the middle of the "town" square.
YEP. We have a Hatfields and McCoys-type situation. YEE-haaaaaww, once again.
The 80+ year long feud has been quiet since the public shooting incident, but when Cerise's mother and father disappear (McCoys), and Lagar Sherrile (Hatfield) and co. are found occupying her Grandfather's abandoned home, and claiming that her father sold the property to him, oh, and here's the deed to prove it, and no, he has no idea where her parents got to, an escalation in hostilities is inevitable.
But before Cerise leaves to regroup with her family, Lagar lets slip that the Hand is involved, and suggests that she be a good, little girl, and let the issue drop.
Riiiiight.
But what does the Hand want with her parents?
I really did like this installment a LOT. The Mars are a crazy and hilarious bunch that you can't help but love. Lark, Kaldar, and Aunt Murid especially. Grandma Az is pretty great too. And they are exactly what William has always longed for.<-----the FEELS.
This installment is also where a definitive story arc takes shape: the quietly fought war between Adrianglia and the Dukedom of Louisiana. And people . . . the DoL fights dirty and creepily.
One of my favorite things about Clean Sweep was the sci-fi explanations for supernatural creatures. Werewolves were the result of genetic modification of soldiers on a planet at war.
The Hand uses magic for a similar purpose. They "fuse" operatives with plants and other things to give them enhancements, but it's a tricky "science" and things don't always go as expected. One universal side effect, however, is that the experimentees can no longer be considered human when the process is complete. Neither in appearance, nor behavior.
Basically Bayou Moon is both creepy and awesome. William and Cerise are wonderful together, and William's changeling antics throughout their "courtship" are wildly (HA!) entertaining. Spider is truly diabolical (be warned--there are moments of graphic violence in this series), and you will BURN in your desire to see him defeated, and the Edge and the Weird both suck you into the oddities of their worlds. No book 2 slump here, people. Not. At. All.
Not much of a problem, I know (that's the point).
So we're back in the Edge. With William this time.<-----that's right, there's a POV change. FYI.
Two years have passed since we were last in the Edge, and it looks like William has just been sitting around, working construction in the Broken, and generally feeling sorry for himself.
Not that he doesn't have good cause. He's had a crap life so far, and Rose rejected him to go live in the Weird with Declan . . .
Poor William. *rolls eyes*
But when a representative of the Mirror (Adrianglia's version of the CIA) shows up on William's doorstep with evidence that his most loathed enemy (Spider) is slaughtering changeling children again (yes, again), he agrees to go undercover into the Mire, a nasty, swamp-like area of the Edge, to snatch whatever Spider is looking for, and hand it over to the Mirror.
Spider, you see, is an agent for the Hand (the Dukedom of Louisiana's version of the CIA), and Adrianglia and DoL are too evenly matched to engage in open warfare without massive losses on both sides, so instead they fight their war with spies and covert operations.<-----AWESOME.
The Mirror doesn't know what Spider is after, but anything the Hand wants as badly as it seems too, the Mirror will do everything in their power to keep from them.
Even send in a changeling like William.
Cerise Mar has lived in the Mire all her life. The Mire is a savage place, even for Edgers, and Cerise is a Mar, and the Mars are a force to be reckoned with. Her family is land rich and cash poor, and there are a LOT of them. Cerise's father has been the Head of the family since the previous Head, his elder brother, was shot in the head (insert bad pun), by a rival family, in the middle of the "town" square.
YEP. We have a Hatfields and McCoys-type situation. YEE-haaaaaww, once again.
The 80+ year long feud has been quiet since the public shooting incident, but when Cerise's mother and father disappear (McCoys), and Lagar Sherrile (Hatfield) and co. are found occupying her Grandfather's abandoned home, and claiming that her father sold the property to him, oh, and here's the deed to prove it, and no, he has no idea where her parents got to, an escalation in hostilities is inevitable.
But before Cerise leaves to regroup with her family, Lagar lets slip that the Hand is involved, and suggests that she be a good, little girl, and let the issue drop.
Riiiiight.
But what does the Hand want with her parents?
I really did like this installment a LOT. The Mars are a crazy and hilarious bunch that you can't help but love. Lark, Kaldar, and Aunt Murid especially. Grandma Az is pretty great too. And they are exactly what William has always longed for.<-----the FEELS.
This installment is also where a definitive story arc takes shape: the quietly fought war between Adrianglia and the Dukedom of Louisiana. And people . . . the DoL fights dirty and creepily.
One of my favorite things about Clean Sweep was the sci-fi explanations for supernatural creatures. Werewolves were the result of genetic modification of soldiers on a planet at war.
The Hand uses magic for a similar purpose. They "fuse" operatives with plants and other things to give them enhancements, but it's a tricky "science" and things don't always go as expected. One universal side effect, however, is that the experimentees can no longer be considered human when the process is complete. Neither in appearance, nor behavior.
Basically Bayou Moon is both creepy and awesome. William and Cerise are wonderful together, and William's changeling antics throughout their "courtship" are wildly (HA!) entertaining. Spider is truly diabolical (be warned--there are moments of graphic violence in this series), and you will BURN in your desire to see him defeated, and the Edge and the Weird both suck you into the oddities of their worlds. No book 2 slump here, people. Not. At. All.
I have to admit, I enjoyed Bayou Moon more than book one. Cerise is an amazing character and I loved William.
Cerise has a huge family and there are so many characters to get to know. Some I instantly loved and others I had suspicions about. A lot of the family members are fine in the heirarchy of the family, while some are wary of Cerise's position as leader until her mother and father are found.
I felt bad for William. Trying to woo a woman as strong as Cerise, especially in the middle of the dangerous situations they are in, is tough. Cerise does not trust William and that is something he tries really hard to work on. He is hiding his true self and motives though. He is really conflicted.
Bayou Moon was full of excitement and danger as Cerise and William work towards their goals. The backwoods type of family Cerise has was a constant source of amusement for me. Renee Raudman really played that up and made those characters even funnier. She was able to keep that backwoods accent so well with all of the characters and even switch well into the cousin who seems to be so aristocratic. The grandmother was a hoot.
Although I still haven't reached the amount of excitement about this series as I have the other two I've read, I'm still quite happy with this book as well as the narration. My mission to inhale all that is Ilona Andrews continues...This review was originally posted on Rantings of a Reading Addict
Cerise has a huge family and there are so many characters to get to know. Some I instantly loved and others I had suspicions about. A lot of the family members are fine in the heirarchy of the family, while some are wary of Cerise's position as leader until her mother and father are found.
I felt bad for William. Trying to woo a woman as strong as Cerise, especially in the middle of the dangerous situations they are in, is tough. Cerise does not trust William and that is something he tries really hard to work on. He is hiding his true self and motives though. He is really conflicted.
Bayou Moon was full of excitement and danger as Cerise and William work towards their goals. The backwoods type of family Cerise has was a constant source of amusement for me. Renee Raudman really played that up and made those characters even funnier. She was able to keep that backwoods accent so well with all of the characters and even switch well into the cousin who seems to be so aristocratic. The grandmother was a hoot.
Although I still haven't reached the amount of excitement about this series as I have the other two I've read, I'm still quite happy with this book as well as the narration. My mission to inhale all that is Ilona Andrews continues...This review was originally posted on Rantings of a Reading Addict