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honeycoveredpages's review against another edition
3.0
There are chunks of this book where I was reading but zoned. That's how bored I was. This is unfortunate because I enjoy Tananarive Due and the first 2 books in this series. Also there were questions that still needed answers to... Like, What happened to Omari? Does Caitlin ever see her dad again?
emmaraeempowered's review
adventurous
challenging
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
SSSTTTRRREEESSSS!!!! THIS BOOK HAD ME STRESSED TF OUT!
Due's writing always puts me in my feels, I am always riding the emotional roller coaster she puts me on. But this one right here....This one had me crawling out of my skin stressed lol. In fact I put the book down for some months and picked it back up for Blackoween in October.
Following Fana and her decisions as a teenager had me beside myself lol. All the decisions everyone was making I felt like I could see their side but was still frustrated and worried about what was going to happen to them. The way this one ended tho, phew I'm looking forward to reading the 4th book just need to have some time to destress before picking it back up lol.
Due's writing always puts me in my feels, I am always riding the emotional roller coaster she puts me on. But this one right here....This one had me crawling out of my skin stressed lol. In fact I put the book down for some months and picked it back up for Blackoween in October.
Following Fana and her decisions as a teenager had me beside myself lol. All the decisions everyone was making I felt like I could see their side but was still frustrated and worried about what was going to happen to them. The way this one ended tho, phew I'm looking forward to reading the 4th book just need to have some time to destress before picking it back up lol.
the_oakland_readers's review against another edition
2.0
The cheesiness factor is increasing with every book. Not sure how I feel about the use of "grown-ass man" in the narrative.
locdbooktician's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
5.0
We continue to learn about Fauna in this book. We meet some new characters who are either funny and extremely dangerous. We learn about how family is what you make of it and the definition changes. Something I was afraid of happening in book 1 happened in this book and I am not sure if I will recover. Tears ran, gosh did they run. I really enjoyed that we got most of his book from Fauna’s perspective. I find her to be endlessly intriguing. She most definitely
showed to her parents and those who uses her age as point to not be capable of things underestimate every time!
showed to her parents and those who uses her age as point to not be capable of things underestimate every time!
littlefemur's review
4.0
Not a YA book but its main character is a teenager and there’s no getting around the related drama. In the audiobook, I found Caitlin’s accent distracting the whole way through. Also that the narrator pronounced the Immortals names differently than the first narrators.
yanareadit's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
cleches's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This has been my least favorite installment in this series so far. However, it was still good. Fana, although immortal, still is a teenager who thinks she knows everything. She and her “friends” made some terrible decisions; their behaviors were exhausting. The introduction of the other sect of immortals will make for an interesting and terrifying turn.
imperfectcj's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I'm still enjoying watching this story unfold, even though some of the characters act in ways that don't completely make sense to me. The narrator of the audiobook also makes some accent choices that are kind of strange. I was tickled by the comment in the book that with gas at $6 a gallon, they couldn't afford to waste any, when the last time I filled up the tank, it was at $5.99/gallon. 2008 was longer ago than it seems.
verkisto's review
3.0
MAN, it took me a long time to finish this book. I like Due's style, and her plots have been interesting, but somehow Blood Colony took me about three weeks to finish. Even other, drier books haven't taken that long. Somehow I just couldn't stay engaged with this story like I did with her other two books (though The Living Blood took me about two weeks).
I do like how Due shifts her themes around from book to book. Each one has been a look at immortality, but where My Soul to Keep was a personal look, and The Living Blood looked at it from a more epic perspective, Blood Colony is a mixture of the two, since Due introduces us to a competing group of immortals while showing us Fana as she attempts to become her own person. As the two groups intersect, we see that the blood reveals a new power, and what it suggests is chilling. It's reminiscent of Carrion Comfort, in the way that the immortals can control other people, but it's not a carbon copy thriller.
I like where the book takes us, but I felt like it was a lot of story for not a lot of payoff. Part of it, I think, is how much ground Due has to cover. Not only does she have to give us the history of the new group of immortals, but she also has to show us what's happened with Fana over the last fifteen years or so. Since both stories take us to the same conclusion, we need them both to get the whole story, but it can sometimes feel long-winded.
The characterization feels weaker here, too. It may be due to Due bringing in so many characters, but I didn't feel the kind of connection with Fana and Jessica like I did in the first two books. I expected it to be the other way around, since by now I should be familiar with them, and Due wouldn't need to spend as much time developing them, but somehow I felt the distance. The book forces them apart, so the distance there is physical, but I didn't expect that to be true of them in the story, too.
Due gives the story a good depth, showing Jessica and Fana having started up a commune to disperse the blood for its healing effects, but the story doesn't have the same OOMPH as the first two books. There's one more book left in the series (so far; apparently, readers thought this would be the final book in the series, which would have been a disappointment), and I'm hoping Due can bring it back with that book. I'm eager to be finished with the series so I can move on to other books on my list.
I do like how Due shifts her themes around from book to book. Each one has been a look at immortality, but where My Soul to Keep was a personal look, and The Living Blood looked at it from a more epic perspective, Blood Colony is a mixture of the two, since Due introduces us to a competing group of immortals while showing us Fana as she attempts to become her own person. As the two groups intersect, we see that the blood reveals a new power, and what it suggests is chilling. It's reminiscent of Carrion Comfort, in the way that the immortals can control other people, but it's not a carbon copy thriller.
I like where the book takes us, but I felt like it was a lot of story for not a lot of payoff. Part of it, I think, is how much ground Due has to cover. Not only does she have to give us the history of the new group of immortals, but she also has to show us what's happened with Fana over the last fifteen years or so. Since both stories take us to the same conclusion, we need them both to get the whole story, but it can sometimes feel long-winded.
The characterization feels weaker here, too. It may be due to Due bringing in so many characters, but I didn't feel the kind of connection with Fana and Jessica like I did in the first two books. I expected it to be the other way around, since by now I should be familiar with them, and Due wouldn't need to spend as much time developing them, but somehow I felt the distance. The book forces them apart, so the distance there is physical, but I didn't expect that to be true of them in the story, too.
Due gives the story a good depth, showing Jessica and Fana having started up a commune to disperse the blood for its healing effects, but the story doesn't have the same OOMPH as the first two books. There's one more book left in the series (so far; apparently, readers thought this would be the final book in the series, which would have been a disappointment), and I'm hoping Due can bring it back with that book. I'm eager to be finished with the series so I can move on to other books on my list.