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A review by twocents
Early to Death, Early to Rise by Kim Harrison
3.0
I realized after I started on it that this is clearly not the first book in the story. I liked a lot of the characters, but thought the boyfriend, Josh, was a complete throwaway. As in, way too much time was devoted to talking about someone so irrelevant. Lots more potential with Barnabas and Paul.
As for the story itself, it took a little while to figure out what was going on, but I thought the premise was interesting. There was a bit of fridge logic, though, with the fact that most of the story seemed to have been set in motion by Madison's botched attempt to talk to Ace for the first time. It seemed like the whole plot wouldn't have happened without that major fail. I thought this was going to be addressed, but it never seems to occur to her either that she didn't really handle that exact moment all that well, and in fact, may have even given him an idea that he wouldn't have come up with on his own. Does give the whole fate/choice thing an interesting twist, as if his fate may have hinged on her fate to botch up talking to him.
All in all, a fast read, relatively interesting. I enjoyed it.
As for the story itself, it took a little while to figure out what was going on, but I thought the premise was interesting. There was a bit of fridge logic, though, with the fact that most of the story seemed to have been set in motion by Madison's botched attempt to talk to Ace for the first time. It seemed like the whole plot wouldn't have happened without that major fail. I thought this was going to be addressed, but it never seems to occur to her either that she didn't really handle that exact moment all that well, and in fact, may have even given him an idea that he wouldn't have come up with on his own. Does give the whole fate/choice thing an interesting twist, as if his fate may have hinged on her fate to botch up talking to him.
All in all, a fast read, relatively interesting. I enjoyed it.