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A review by doritobabe
The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa
2.0
Alright, now that I have read the whole series, I will give a legitimate and long-winded review.
2.5/5 stars
Mild spoilers going forward.
As another reviewer said: this book was just one big soap opera.
Since the second book, I was hoping that Zeke would die and remain dead...mainly to avoid 90% of the romantic dialogues that easily consumed 30% of the latter half of this book (since his reunion with the group.)
Not to mention his horrible angst. It is understandable, I suppose, but boy was I glad when the author made Jackal say to both Zeke and Allison what every reader was already thinking.
There were some character loose ends (jackal/james) and by the story's conclusion you could tell that there was almost an excess of characters for Kagawa to play with. There were several stereotypical instances of so-n-so showing up at the last second to save the day; the typical villian with a heart character, the martyr... but why, all of a sudden, is Allison now a master? OUT OF NO WHERE?!
In addition, super tedious that this three volume series only bounced back and forth between the same three locations... I mean, you have a whole world to play with; make it exciting!! Same goes for the characters, how come no new ones? Where's the spice in Allison's angsty, teen, vampire life.
I was only excited for this book at the end, with the final showdown. Probably the only gorey, horrific and exciting part of the whole book. This could have easily been added to create a giant second volume, or a very slim and succinct third novel. I think the thing I hate most about trilogies is terrible amounts of repetition and summarizing by the time you get to the third/final book in a series.
Anyways, I am glad this series is over. It *was* refreshing until all of this "our forever" silliness that appeared...then, it just turned into another typical vamp series. Never trust harlequin teen (obviously...my mistake) if you want to get away from that stuff.
2.5/5 stars
Mild spoilers going forward.
As another reviewer said: this book was just one big soap opera.
Since the second book, I was hoping that Zeke would die and remain dead...mainly to avoid 90% of the romantic dialogues that easily consumed 30% of the latter half of this book (since his reunion with the group.)
Not to mention his horrible angst. It is understandable, I suppose, but boy was I glad when the author made Jackal say to both Zeke and Allison what every reader was already thinking.
There were some character loose ends (jackal/james) and by the story's conclusion you could tell that there was almost an excess of characters for Kagawa to play with. There were several stereotypical instances of so-n-so showing up at the last second to save the day; the typical villian with a heart character, the martyr... but why, all of a sudden, is Allison now a master? OUT OF NO WHERE?!
In addition, super tedious that this three volume series only bounced back and forth between the same three locations... I mean, you have a whole world to play with; make it exciting!! Same goes for the characters, how come no new ones? Where's the spice in Allison's angsty, teen, vampire life.
I was only excited for this book at the end, with the final showdown. Probably the only gorey, horrific and exciting part of the whole book. This could have easily been added to create a giant second volume, or a very slim and succinct third novel. I think the thing I hate most about trilogies is terrible amounts of repetition and summarizing by the time you get to the third/final book in a series.
Anyways, I am glad this series is over. It *was* refreshing until all of this "our forever" silliness that appeared...then, it just turned into another typical vamp series. Never trust harlequin teen (obviously...my mistake) if you want to get away from that stuff.