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rens_reading_glenn 's review for:
Raven Cursed
by Faith Hunter
While I am really enjoying this series - with this book in particular, since it kept me up reading until 1 am and that hasn't happened in a while - I also have a similar uneasy feeling to some of the other reviewers as it dips closer and closer to the same themes that eventually put me off of the Anita Blake series.
Anita Blake was my first urban fantasy, and I loved it, zipping through the books like a bag of delicious caramels... until everything became entirely focused on sex and lust and power, and less on action, adventure, and general bad-assery of what was once one of the strongest female characters I had ever run across. And after four book, I am mighty worried that Jane Yellowrock is tumbling down that same path.
I get it. Sex sells, and I have nothing against a little romance or unresolved sexual tension to keep things interesting, but the blood and bones that will keep me reading a series are excellent, amazing, well developed characters - and the chance for them to BE excellent, amazing and well developed. I have very little patience for keeping up with series where that is taken away, and zero patience when the awesome characters I have grown to love get turned into sex-crazed flesh puppets.
So far, Jane Yellowrock is staying awesome, but I worry that she's walking a fine line. In Raven Cursed, she really does get a chance to shine, coming into her own and ON her own in a way she never has been before... but at a cost.
It also introduced a heck of a lot of uncertainty about which road she'll take from here on out, and whether or not it's one I'll be interested in following with her.
Anita Blake was my first urban fantasy, and I loved it, zipping through the books like a bag of delicious caramels... until everything became entirely focused on sex and lust and power, and less on action, adventure, and general bad-assery of what was once one of the strongest female characters I had ever run across. And after four book, I am mighty worried that Jane Yellowrock is tumbling down that same path.
I get it. Sex sells, and I have nothing against a little romance or unresolved sexual tension to keep things interesting, but the blood and bones that will keep me reading a series are excellent, amazing, well developed characters - and the chance for them to BE excellent, amazing and well developed. I have very little patience for keeping up with series where that is taken away, and zero patience when the awesome characters I have grown to love get turned into sex-crazed flesh puppets.
So far, Jane Yellowrock is staying awesome, but I worry that she's walking a fine line. In Raven Cursed, she really does get a chance to shine, coming into her own and ON her own in a way she never has been before... but at a cost.
It also introduced a heck of a lot of uncertainty about which road she'll take from here on out, and whether or not it's one I'll be interested in following with her.