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rianna_erfani's review against another edition
5.0
I liked the story. but sometimes the accidents are a little bit clichéd. the characters don't seem stressed in dangers and they ask stupid questions in hard situations. that makes me uncomfortable with the story and makes the characters seem unnatural
corita's review
Steven James kicks ass when it comes to mysteries, plot twists, conflict, action-packed adventure, and super nasty bad guys. CURSE, the last book of his Blur Trilogy, does all that.
Daniel's “blurs” are never fully explained, but I didn't expect they would be. Paranormal really can't be defined. CURSE like BLUR and FURY is fast-paced with an action-packed storyline. In this book, we get to know Daniel and his friends better. Overall it's a good YA book, not the best in the series, but it does give closure.
CURSE is primarily a mystery with elements of the paranormal. The paranormal makes me give the storyline a pass in a lot of areas because, well, in a paranormal world things work differently than in the real world.
However, near the end, I had some trouble suspending my disbelief. The plot is ambitious, and James tries to give logical reasons for a few things I found far-fetched. I don't have any problem believing that teenagers will take off and do stupid, even dangerous things. I was once a teenager and remember realizing after the fact, "Hey, that was pretty stupid. Why'd I do it?"
My problem was getting past adults and parents, sending three teens, one blind, off to find kidnappers, who have threatened to kill someone and a police officer agreeing to let teens walk into possibly dangerous situations.
Young adults may not have issues with adults allowing teens to take life and death risks. I debated about giving a three-star rating, but it deserves a 3.5 rating.
Daniel's “blurs” are never fully explained, but I didn't expect they would be. Paranormal really can't be defined. CURSE like BLUR and FURY is fast-paced with an action-packed storyline. In this book, we get to know Daniel and his friends better. Overall it's a good YA book, not the best in the series, but it does give closure.
CURSE is primarily a mystery with elements of the paranormal. The paranormal makes me give the storyline a pass in a lot of areas because, well, in a paranormal world things work differently than in the real world.
However, near the end, I had some trouble suspending my disbelief. The plot is ambitious, and James tries to give logical reasons for a few things I found far-fetched. I don't have any problem believing that teenagers will take off and do stupid, even dangerous things. I was once a teenager and remember realizing after the fact, "Hey, that was pretty stupid. Why'd I do it?"
My problem was getting past adults and parents, sending three teens, one blind, off to find kidnappers, who have threatened to kill someone and a police officer agreeing to let teens walk into possibly dangerous situations.
Young adults may not have issues with adults allowing teens to take life and death risks. I debated about giving a three-star rating, but it deserves a 3.5 rating.
whaney's review against another edition
4.0
It started out much slower than the first two, but then picked up and was quite good.
urlphantomhive's review against another edition
3.0
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Curse is the final book in the Blur trilogy, featuring Daniel who has been seeing 'blurs', which are basically hallucinations, or are they? In the previous books, he has been thrown into several murder cases because of this ability, but in Curse there is very little going on besides Daniel solving crime through his ability. Only, this time he is not only helped by his friends but also by some like-minded kids. By which I mean, they have special abilities as well. And these abilities just happen to be the exact ones they need to crack the case. What a coincidence, right?
This was another fast read, but I get the feeling more and more that I don't completely understand the YA mystery genre. Teens solving crime seems weird to me under the best of circumstances but where is the police in all this? The ending did not surprise me, but left me wondering because Daniel didn't really receive a way to better handling or accepting his blurs. As such, I had hoped Curse would bring more closure to the story.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
Curse is the final book in the Blur trilogy, featuring Daniel who has been seeing 'blurs', which are basically hallucinations, or are they? In the previous books, he has been thrown into several murder cases because of this ability, but in Curse there is very little going on besides Daniel solving crime through his ability. Only, this time he is not only helped by his friends but also by some like-minded kids. By which I mean, they have special abilities as well. And these abilities just happen to be the exact ones they need to crack the case. What a coincidence, right?
This was another fast read, but I get the feeling more and more that I don't completely understand the YA mystery genre. Teens solving crime seems weird to me under the best of circumstances but where is the police in all this? The ending did not surprise me, but left me wondering because Daniel didn't really receive a way to better handling or accepting his blurs. As such, I had hoped Curse would bring more closure to the story.
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
sasha23's review against another edition
4.0
I won a copy of this in a good reads giveaway. I enjoyed it and was happy to wrap up the series :)
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