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Vengeance of The Fallen
by Dani René
This is such a train wreck of a book. I don't know why I continued to read after 25% or so, probably because I wanted to see just how bad it could get. The answer was very. There are lots of continuity errors, events so far-fetched they lie somewhere beyond Jupiter, and an utter lack of connection between any of the characters. Other than their names (those stupid bird nicknames) there was nothing, not a single damn thing, to differentiate one from another. The author clearly hoped to write a dark book without actually having anyone other than the bad guy suffer. Note to author - it really didn't work, especially the ridiculousness of Missy and the twins' fates.
Our three "heroes" live in a small town where their nearest neighbours are 50 miles away. The very definition of a town (at least in England where I live AND where the book is nominally set) is that if your nearest neighbour lives over 50 miles away you aren't in a town. Said town was also close enough to London to snatch Lucille if necessary - if your closest neighbour is 50 miles away you are not very close to London... unless they were planning to use a helicopter to snatch her. I'm not sure if there is anywhere in England where your closest neighbour is 50 miles away. Potentially if you lived on an uninhabited island, and definitely possible if you live in Scotland or Wales - but these are not in England #justsaying.
The timeline is incredibly ropey, the plot has more holes in it than a string bag, the resolution lends a lot more to deus ex machina than is comfortable, and there is nothing that would suggest any of these lacklustre and fairly stupid characters have fallen in anything other than lust. The author used a lot of inner monologue and vagueness which I can only presume was to make the book dark. Instead, it made the story slow-paced, lacking in depth, and forgettable. Probably the only thing I will remember is how the book was riddled with continuity errors and contradictions. Certainly, it won't be our deadly assassins who were very easily tricked by the Bratva and could find anything out but never tried to find their missing siblings. It won't be Lucille, whose entire personality was that she liked rough sex. Actually I won't remember the book at all.
Our three "heroes" live in a small town where their nearest neighbours are 50 miles away. The very definition of a town (at least in England where I live AND where the book is nominally set) is that if your nearest neighbour lives over 50 miles away you aren't in a town. Said town was also close enough to London to snatch Lucille if necessary - if your closest neighbour is 50 miles away you are not very close to London... unless they were planning to use a helicopter to snatch her. I'm not sure if there is anywhere in England where your closest neighbour is 50 miles away. Potentially if you lived on an uninhabited island, and definitely possible if you live in Scotland or Wales - but these are not in England #justsaying.
The timeline is incredibly ropey, the plot has more holes in it than a string bag, the resolution lends a lot more to deus ex machina than is comfortable, and there is nothing that would suggest any of these lacklustre and fairly stupid characters have fallen in anything other than lust. The author used a lot of inner monologue and vagueness which I can only presume was to make the book dark. Instead, it made the story slow-paced, lacking in depth, and forgettable. Probably the only thing I will remember is how the book was riddled with continuity errors and contradictions. Certainly, it won't be our deadly assassins who were very easily tricked by the Bratva and could find anything out but never tried to find their missing siblings. It won't be Lucille, whose entire personality was that she liked rough sex. Actually I won't remember the book at all.