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A review by kayteeem
Omens by Kelley Armstrong
I wasn't really happy with this book, overall. It had a slow start, and I didn't care for the protagonist very much -- she was rather carried along by events without showing much courage about sticking up for what she thought and felt. (Now, nothing wrong with setting up for some contrast to later behavior, but the setup seemed to go on for a long time.)
The middle of the book trundled along fairly nicely, but again, it was slow-paced. It struck me as sort of Anne Tyler light, with just a hint of odd things around the corners.
And then I realized I was rapidly running out of book, without much movement in the plot. And it looks like the author realized that, too, because there was a complete change in tone and pace in order to wrap up one corner of the plot before the book ended.
I'm sort of curious as to the mystery of what's going on behind the scenes, but I'm not finding myself drawn to reading the next four novels worth of material to get there.
The middle of the book trundled along fairly nicely, but again, it was slow-paced. It struck me as sort of Anne Tyler light, with just a hint of odd things around the corners.
And then I realized I was rapidly running out of book, without much movement in the plot. And it looks like the author realized that, too, because there was a complete change in tone and pace in order to wrap up one corner of the plot before the book ended.
Spoiler
Leftover MK Ultra mind control plots from the '60s! The "gun for safety" from 100 pages back coming back into play with an extended action sequence not hinted at earlier in the book! (But without an emotional impact, strangely) Then 20 pages of sort of wrapping things up to an ending without much sense of closure.I'm sort of curious as to the mystery of what's going on behind the scenes, but I'm not finding myself drawn to reading the next four novels worth of material to get there.