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urbanaudreye's review
5.0
Leah Cutter's writing never ceases to amaze me. The pictures shelashings and tales that she weaves just suck me in completely.
Cassie is back, and this time she's "assisting" the police through her girlfriend, Sam, to find a bomber. What she discovers is a cult trying to raise Cthulu. Can she and Hunter release Posiedon and stop them before it's too late?
*I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.
Cassie is back, and this time she's "assisting" the police through her girlfriend, Sam, to find a bomber. What she discovers is a cult trying to raise Cthulu. Can she and Hunter release Posiedon and stop them before it's too late?
*I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.
soulfulsin's review
3.0
This is a book where I really have to gather my thoughts. For starters, let me say that I received a free copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. Moreover, I started reading this book without reading the summary or having read the first book in the series. I went in completely cold.
World-building for this series is pretty good. The writer provides a clear grasp of what different people can do, although I would have liked to have seen Cassie interact more with the alternate timelines. The world-building is part of what kept me reading, because I genuinely found that world immersive.
Leah Cutter also demonstrates that she can alternate writing styles fairly well too, between Hunter and Cassie. I prefer her third person POV, because first person POV, aside from being very limited, is in Cassie’s case rather crude compared to Hunter. Ideally, the book would have been in third person for me with alternating perspectives on a regular basis, so that one got the full story. There wasn’t a sense of that here.
Like I said, world building is pretty good, but there were still gaps. Steve’s story was underdeveloped, to the point where the climax felt entirely too anticlimactic. Beat up some bad guys, save the day, without any real build up to it. Or, rather, build up but no release. It’s like running flat out, expecting to jump, and then tripping.
Cassie’s POV, as I mentioned before, was problematic for a few reasons. For one, I didn’t particularly enjoy being in her head. Cassie is rude, crude, and has an attitude. She is also very repetitive. On the one hand, that made not reading the first book a non-issue, because she summarized everything that happened there. On the other hand, points were hammered in when I already got the message.
The setup reminded me of Anita Blake, before the series turned into plot what plot. In that sense, it was good at hooking the reader, but not necessarily cluing them into everything. It would make a decent second or third draft, but the lacking parts require revision.
Did I enjoy this book? Yes, to a degree. Would I recommend this book to others? Yes, with the stipulation that it may not be entirely satisfying, depending on personal preferences.
2.5 stars on LibraryThing, 3 stars on Goodreads.
World-building for this series is pretty good. The writer provides a clear grasp of what different people can do, although I would have liked to have seen Cassie interact more with the alternate timelines. The world-building is part of what kept me reading, because I genuinely found that world immersive.
Leah Cutter also demonstrates that she can alternate writing styles fairly well too, between Hunter and Cassie. I prefer her third person POV, because first person POV, aside from being very limited, is in Cassie’s case rather crude compared to Hunter. Ideally, the book would have been in third person for me with alternating perspectives on a regular basis, so that one got the full story. There wasn’t a sense of that here.
Like I said, world building is pretty good, but there were still gaps. Steve’s story was underdeveloped, to the point where the climax felt entirely too anticlimactic. Beat up some bad guys, save the day, without any real build up to it. Or, rather, build up but no release. It’s like running flat out, expecting to jump, and then tripping.
Cassie’s POV, as I mentioned before, was problematic for a few reasons. For one, I didn’t particularly enjoy being in her head. Cassie is rude, crude, and has an attitude. She is also very repetitive. On the one hand, that made not reading the first book a non-issue, because she summarized everything that happened there. On the other hand, points were hammered in when I already got the message.
The setup reminded me of Anita Blake, before the series turned into plot what plot. In that sense, it was good at hooking the reader, but not necessarily cluing them into everything. It would make a decent second or third draft, but the lacking parts require revision.
Did I enjoy this book? Yes, to a degree. Would I recommend this book to others? Yes, with the stipulation that it may not be entirely satisfying, depending on personal preferences.
2.5 stars on LibraryThing, 3 stars on Goodreads.
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