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A review by kaje_harper
Bleeding Out by Jes Battis
4.0
This book was an odd mix, and for me some parts were 5-star, some were barely 3, and the combination was fascinating but not quite workable... the rating is a compromise.
The things I liked best about this series were still there although only in parts of this book. Tess Corday is a more-than-half demon but still very human magic-wielder with a self-made family consisting of her telepathic gay best friend, his deaf boyfriend, her adopted/fostered two teenage vampires, and a dead necromancer boyfriend. The family parts of these stories really worked for me - maternal angst, teen snark, BFF and romance insecurities.
The magic parts were more problematic while at the same time engendering some truly wonderful language and images that I reread just for the flow of words. However in the end I found it hard to pay attention to or care about the details. There were several events relating to the deaths and world-building in this book, and I'm still not sure the resolution worked for me. So this is an interesting, at times gorgeous (in the I-hate-inner-angsting-for-pages-but-this-is-kind-of-amazing sense,) sometimes fun, ending to a series I've enjoyed.
The things I liked best about this series were still there although only in parts of this book. Tess Corday is a more-than-half demon but still very human magic-wielder with a self-made family consisting of her telepathic gay best friend, his deaf boyfriend, her adopted/fostered two teenage vampires, and a dead necromancer boyfriend. The family parts of these stories really worked for me - maternal angst, teen snark, BFF and romance insecurities.
The magic parts were more problematic while at the same time engendering some truly wonderful language and images that I reread just for the flow of words. However in the end I found it hard to pay attention to or care about the details. There were several events relating to the deaths and world-building in this book, and I'm still not sure the resolution worked for me. So this is an interesting, at times gorgeous (in the I-hate-inner-angsting-for-pages-but-this-is-kind-of-amazing sense,) sometimes fun, ending to a series I've enjoyed.