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A review by chloefrizzle
Uncanny Vows by Laura Anne Gilman
3.0
This is the story of 1910's monster hunters. The hunters are a sibling duo with a perfectly entertaining dynamic. There's also larger politics at play with the secretive monster hunter organization.
Though this book has great bones -- intriguing monster, dynamic characters, I feel like this book fell short of that potential. The characters are flawed, but don't face any consequences for those weaknesses here. The hunt is intriguing, until it spends way too long in the same place spinning its wheels. There is a vague threat from their bosses, and yet it doesn't really pan out.
Despite not having read the next books in the series yet, this feels like a case of middle-book-syndrome: a book that is there to set the characters up for a finale, but doesn't actually justify its existence.
It was fine, and I still recommend the series. I just hope that the next book has more going on, both in terms of plot and character development.
Thanks to Netgalley and Gallery/Saga Press for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.
Though this book has great bones -- intriguing monster, dynamic characters, I feel like this book fell short of that potential. The characters are flawed, but don't face any consequences for those weaknesses here. The hunt is intriguing, until it spends way too long in the same place spinning its wheels. There is a vague threat from their bosses, and yet it doesn't really pan out.
Despite not having read the next books in the series yet, this feels like a case of middle-book-syndrome: a book that is there to set the characters up for a finale, but doesn't actually justify its existence.
It was fine, and I still recommend the series. I just hope that the next book has more going on, both in terms of plot and character development.
Thanks to Netgalley and Gallery/Saga Press for a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own.