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A review by magikspells
Evildoer by Dannika Dark
2.0
Nothing like giving a lackluster series a pretty boring ending. I'm 100% convinced that the author had no idea where she was going with this series. Every book had a series of cobbled together evil doers who had almost no impact on the overall plot. And even the parts that did carry over weren't good. Chaos, Fletcher, Lenore, all are supposed to be some kinda antagonist, but because of the POV of the book, it feels like all of their antics are left as afterthoughts to explain away holes in the plot.
The characters have very little depth besides the single thing the author gave them to do (ex Blue wear flowing dresses, Wyatt has snack foods, Shepard has weapons, Nico has his weird pants, Jem has roller skates). And they all have an annoying phase that they keep repeating to remind us that the character is who they say they are.
Admittedly, I read this book because I think there's parts of it that are interesting. But I'm frustrated to keep seeing urban fantasy as an excuse for misogyny, racism, and anti-queer ideologies. The idea of writing an entire species as sexist just because that's how they are is lazy. And I'm sorry, if there are so many immortals, how are they all straight, heteronormative, allo-sexual carbon copies.
Whatever, it's over and I'm not reading that ending novella because I'm done with Raven and Christian.
The characters have very little depth besides the single thing the author gave them to do (ex Blue wear flowing dresses, Wyatt has snack foods, Shepard has weapons, Nico has his weird pants, Jem has roller skates). And they all have an annoying phase that they keep repeating to remind us that the character is who they say they are.
Admittedly, I read this book because I think there's parts of it that are interesting. But I'm frustrated to keep seeing urban fantasy as an excuse for misogyny, racism, and anti-queer ideologies. The idea of writing an entire species as sexist just because that's how they are is lazy. And I'm sorry, if there are so many immortals, how are they all straight, heteronormative, allo-sexual carbon copies.
Whatever, it's over and I'm not reading that ending novella because I'm done with Raven and Christian.