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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
This was a great book. Very quick read and hard to put down. At least as good as Infinity!!!
This is the second book in the Chronicles of Nick. Things are getting back to normal after the zombie attack. Nick finds himself on the football team with a Coach who is black mailing him into stealing from other students. On top of all that he is still trying to get his head around the fact that he is part demon.
I definitely liked this book more than the first one. I really adore Nick and I am starting to like a lot of the other characters.
Nick gets a job working for Kyrian. A wealthy dark hunter who is sworn to protect people from the supernatural. Kyrian also helps Nick’s mom get a better job as well. This greatly improves Nick’s home situation.
I am still on the fence about Nick’s friends. They are very entertaining and helpful. I think Caleb is hilarious, he can definitely go toe to toe with Nick with the sarcasm. Kody is a lot more mysterious.
I am not a huge fan of her. I think Nick put her on a pedestal from day one and she just made herself a little too comfortable up there.
I give this book a B+
I definitely liked this book more than the first one. I really adore Nick and I am starting to like a lot of the other characters.
Nick gets a job working for Kyrian. A wealthy dark hunter who is sworn to protect people from the supernatural. Kyrian also helps Nick’s mom get a better job as well. This greatly improves Nick’s home situation.
I am still on the fence about Nick’s friends. They are very entertaining and helpful. I think Caleb is hilarious, he can definitely go toe to toe with Nick with the sarcasm. Kody is a lot more mysterious.
I am not a huge fan of her. I think Nick put her on a pedestal from day one and she just made herself a little too comfortable up there.
I give this book a B+
Thoughts without spoilers.
Defiantly not as confusing as the first one, still some point of view shift that take some getting used to. Not as action packed but still has some to make it interesting. Love mark and Caleb still.
Defiantly not as confusing as the first one, still some point of view shift that take some getting used to. Not as action packed but still has some to make it interesting. Love mark and Caleb still.
I had fun with the story of Nick in this book. I can't decide if I'll read the last though because the details don't line up with the time line. As Kenyon emphasizes Nick's age and his mother's age, the background she created for the mother doesn't add up. Nick is a fourteen year old high school kid who the year before was a big time football player.
Where's the editor?
I think the story is worth reading but I've lost some enthusiasm for the book.
Where's the editor?
I think the story is worth reading but I've lost some enthusiasm for the book.
THIS is the kind of young adult novel I can get into- fast paced, engaging, likeable characters, a great plot, plot AND character development constructed around self-discovery and strength of character. It's funny and just pretty darned entertaining.
The second novel in the Chronicles of Nick series. Every day Nick is finding out more and more about how different a world he’s living in. Now that he’s helped defeat half zombies his high school is trying to get back to normal, or as normal as it can get. The new coach is a very suspicious character. Fourteen-year-old boys start showing up dead around the time the coach approaches Nick to do a few illegal things for him. It’s up to Nick to round up forces higher up then him to help save his butt from evil. The novel’s plot was easy to follow, and fast-paced. It was also very entertaining, although it gets a little hard to keep track of who is who when new characters keep being introduced. The novel also wavers through different points of view that at times the reader gets confused which character they’re reading about. Compared to the first novel, the plot was executed a lot better, and it was more engaging. Overall, this novel is better than the first, but still isn’t the best. The story is intriguing as it continues to the next novel.
Pretty good book. I really adore this series and love that Nick's story is getting a second chance. This book is shorter than I would like though, read in under a day.
I think this is the book where the series started going downhill for me.
We should probably begin this review by bringing up the fact that I take notes on my phone of things I want to talk about in my reviews. My notes for this book contain a total of four bullet points, each one a negative thought.
Yikes.
My first bullet point brings up the fact that I don’t enjoy the relationship between Nick and Nekoda, especially in these beginning books. There’s no real buildup to Nick’s involvement with Nekoda, or at least not in the way I want it to be. Rather than showing the reasons behind why Nick and Nekoda want to be together (besides a mutual attraction), it’s just sort of stated that they’re going to get together and forces the relationship with no real development. I didn’t care for Nekoda in these first few books simply because I didn’t have the time to care for her. Nothing about her was really explored, but rather she was just dropped upon readers who were forced to deal with her.
This is the book where I also began paying closer attention to the descriptions of characters and finding a common theme: every character is described as “sexy”. Yes, even child characters. Yes, even child character’s perceptions of adult characters. This description is something that comes up often in the series, makes me super uncomfortable, and is one of the biggest reasons I’m not a fan of the series.
Despite continuously reaching for the next book.
The editing of this book also leaves much to be desired, especially in terms of content and repetition. At one point, the book points out Casey’s ability to borrow Shannon’s hairbrush twice with only a few paragraphs in between. And it’s not just a reminder of her ability. It’s the same sentence, as though it’s new information.
Ultimately, my biggest letdown plot-wise with this story was that it ended up being more of a “villain of the week” story, where the conflict is introduced and solved within the same book and it doesn’t really have much to do with the first book. There isn’t much new about the overarching plot, and it feels a bit like filler.
Despite my notes being entirely just negatives about the book, I can’t bring myself to rate it under three stars. The main plot is interesting enough that I want to stick through with the series and see more, but this entry just feels bland when I’d rather be focusing on literally everything else in the story.
We should probably begin this review by bringing up the fact that I take notes on my phone of things I want to talk about in my reviews. My notes for this book contain a total of four bullet points, each one a negative thought.
Yikes.
My first bullet point brings up the fact that I don’t enjoy the relationship between Nick and Nekoda, especially in these beginning books. There’s no real buildup to Nick’s involvement with Nekoda, or at least not in the way I want it to be. Rather than showing the reasons behind why Nick and Nekoda want to be together (besides a mutual attraction), it’s just sort of stated that they’re going to get together and forces the relationship with no real development. I didn’t care for Nekoda in these first few books simply because I didn’t have the time to care for her. Nothing about her was really explored, but rather she was just dropped upon readers who were forced to deal with her.
This is the book where I also began paying closer attention to the descriptions of characters and finding a common theme: every character is described as “sexy”. Yes, even child characters. Yes, even child character’s perceptions of adult characters. This description is something that comes up often in the series, makes me super uncomfortable, and is one of the biggest reasons I’m not a fan of the series.
Despite continuously reaching for the next book.
The editing of this book also leaves much to be desired, especially in terms of content and repetition. At one point, the book points out Casey’s ability to borrow Shannon’s hairbrush twice with only a few paragraphs in between. And it’s not just a reminder of her ability. It’s the same sentence, as though it’s new information.
Ultimately, my biggest letdown plot-wise with this story was that it ended up being more of a “villain of the week” story, where the conflict is introduced and solved within the same book and it doesn’t really have much to do with the first book. There isn’t much new about the overarching plot, and it feels a bit like filler.
Despite my notes being entirely just negatives about the book, I can’t bring myself to rate it under three stars. The main plot is interesting enough that I want to stick through with the series and see more, but this entry just feels bland when I’d rather be focusing on literally everything else in the story.