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telerit's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
ogreart's review
4.0
I am genuinely sorry that this is the last book of the series. I would read the hell out of any more the author would write.
lcdarkslayer's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
surfmonkey01's review against another edition
4.0
For the first 2/3, this was an INCREDIBLY strong read. Good mystery, interesting characters and development. Then as the curtain began to be pulled back on what was happening, it became a bit less interesting. This is one case where the resolution was much less interesting than the mystery itself.
I continue to enjoy the evolution of Eddie and his world, however, as each book gives him new depth and adds more interesting facets to the world. This series remains among my top 5 in Urban Fantasy (for those curious, the others are Harry Dresden, Felix Castor, Iron Druid, and the Leandros Brothers. Order TBD, although Dresden sits at the top of the heap for sure.)
Anyways, I digress. This is a very good book, and I recommend checking it out upon its release. Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy.
I continue to enjoy the evolution of Eddie and his world, however, as each book gives him new depth and adds more interesting facets to the world. This series remains among my top 5 in Urban Fantasy (for those curious, the others are Harry Dresden, Felix Castor, Iron Druid, and the Leandros Brothers. Order TBD, although Dresden sits at the top of the heap for sure.)
Anyways, I digress. This is a very good book, and I recommend checking it out upon its release. Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy.
git_r_read's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of my favorite series from one of my favorite authors. It's fantasy with anachronisms out the whoosie-whatsit and I don't care. I love finding them in the books and hearing them when I listen to the books as I have lately.
Each book gives us more of Eddie's background as a young man, when he left home, and his adventures as a 'sword-jockey' aka private investigator. This starts with Eddie, as a young man on his way to a battle, fighting a bear to help rescue a man from the attack. It doesn't work out well but Eddie rescues the baby that the doomed man was carrying. Eddie promises to help and the story goes from there with a flash to the 'present'.
Plenty of action, humor [bawdy and otherwise], swords, mischief, good deeds and bad, magic, science, romance, Eddie and Liz, so much going on and it's all excellent.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
Each book gives us more of Eddie's background as a young man, when he left home, and his adventures as a 'sword-jockey' aka private investigator. This starts with Eddie, as a young man on his way to a battle, fighting a bear to help rescue a man from the attack. It doesn't work out well but Eddie rescues the baby that the doomed man was carrying. Eddie promises to help and the story goes from there with a flash to the 'present'.
Plenty of action, humor [bawdy and otherwise], swords, mischief, good deeds and bad, magic, science, romance, Eddie and Liz, so much going on and it's all excellent.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
jaymeks's review against another edition
3.0
It was a good book, but not my favorite of the series. I liked a lot of what happened, but quite frankly, some of it was just silly. While I get that it was based on a Shakespearean model, some of the twists and turns were weird, and again, just silly. Not bad, but not my favorite.
alishaaye's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
lyndiane's review against another edition
5.0
Please Mr Bledsoe, sir, I've been waiting an awful long time now. When are you going to give us another story about Eddie la Crosse?
verkisto's review
3.0
For all the issues I've had with the Eddie LaCrosse series, I think it's safe to say that I'm a fan, both of the series and of the author. The stories are well-told, gripping, and engrossing, and even if they aren't perfect stories, they're fun reads, and that's enough for these kinds of stories. I can tear through them in a day or two, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series (and the Tufa series, and whatever else he writes).
The structure of this book is a little strange, as it starts out with a flashback from sixteen years before, and then jumps forward to Eddie's current time. This wouldn't be problematic in and of itself, but when we pick the story back up in the current time, part of the mystery is answered by the details we just read about, and Eddie even makes some parenthetical asides about how he should have clued in on some of the answers based on what he had already told us. Those parts were jarring, and removed the tension of that part of the mystery. I felt like the story would have had a more dramatic punch if he had somehow woven the first part of the book in with the main narrative. Luckily, that wasn't the only mystery, as the question of who Isidore really was still carried the rest of the book.
Part of the story wrapped up too neatly, without much explanation. It worked well enough, but it felt a little too much like a deus ex machina ending. There was a hint early on at how that part of the story might end, but then it was pretty much ignored until it was needed at the very end of the story, so it wasn't entirely unexpected, though it did seem too easy.
I'm not sure if this is my favorite Eddie LaCrosse book (that honor goes to either Burn Me Deadly or Wake of the Bloody Angel), but it's still a solid read, and right in line with the previous volumes in the series. It's a given that anyone who liked the first four should read this one, too.
The structure of this book is a little strange, as it starts out with a flashback from sixteen years before, and then jumps forward to Eddie's current time. This wouldn't be problematic in and of itself, but when we pick the story back up in the current time, part of the mystery is answered by the details we just read about, and Eddie even makes some parenthetical asides about how he should have clued in on some of the answers based on what he had already told us. Those parts were jarring, and removed the tension of that part of the mystery. I felt like the story would have had a more dramatic punch if he had somehow woven the first part of the book in with the main narrative. Luckily, that wasn't the only mystery, as the question of who Isidore really was still carried the rest of the book.
Part of the story wrapped up too neatly, without much explanation. It worked well enough, but it felt a little too much like a deus ex machina ending. There was a hint early on at how that part of the story might end, but then it was pretty much ignored until it was needed at the very end of the story, so it wasn't entirely unexpected, though it did seem too easy.
I'm not sure if this is my favorite Eddie LaCrosse book (that honor goes to either Burn Me Deadly or Wake of the Bloody Angel), but it's still a solid read, and right in line with the previous volumes in the series. It's a given that anyone who liked the first four should read this one, too.