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A review by feliciaday
Dying Bites by D.D. Barant
3.0
So this is a mystery/thriller/fantasy/paranormal/romance-y hybrid. I like the idea of this a lot, an FBI investigator woman transported into an alt universe where humans are the minority, vamps and werewolfs and golems are the majority. It's just the execution is spotty because the world is just unbelievable in some of the building blocks. And unfortunately the deeper you get into this series the harder it is to have your disbelief suspended because of some of those worldbuilding aspects as well.
-Liked the main character, pretty standard tough-girl but not too forced, so I liked her. I liked that she got involved with a dude and it wasn't "WE ARE MEAN TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER". More realistic and I appreciated that
-Loved the Golems, thought that was the cleverest part of the book and made it different from typical Vampire/Werewolf stories.
-Hated the whole gun rationale, it was just ridiculous. And the whole drug thing that she had to take and, well, a few other things like this took me out of the book, which is my basic overall negative. Building worlds from scratch is hard, and this one has a few potholes.
Overall this satisfied my itch for an urban paranormal book on the beach!
-Liked the main character, pretty standard tough-girl but not too forced, so I liked her. I liked that she got involved with a dude and it wasn't "WE ARE MEAN TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER". More realistic and I appreciated that
-Loved the Golems, thought that was the cleverest part of the book and made it different from typical Vampire/Werewolf stories.
-Hated the whole gun rationale, it was just ridiculous. And the whole drug thing that she had to take and, well, a few other things like this took me out of the book, which is my basic overall negative. Building worlds from scratch is hard, and this one has a few potholes.
Overall this satisfied my itch for an urban paranormal book on the beach!