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A review by catpingu
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
3.0
Despite Kelley Armstrong's enchanting voice in this series and her ability to write from different POVs of already-known characters, I couldn't help but be leery of reading this book. And because of this leeriness, it took me much longer to actually read it. I had to force myself to read through this, and I still don't really like it at all. So basically, 2 stars for plot and 1 more star for the consistently incorporating great dialogue into the book.
Eve Levine is dead, but she's never been closer to being alive. After helping Paige and Lucas get out of...uhm, is "limbo" a good word to use here? It's more like "a separate ghosts-only dimension," not exactly "purgatory" or anything. But anyway, Eve's promised the Fates a favor, and they're cashing it in. Eve has to track down the elusive serial-killing Nix, a body-hopping demon who's about to start threatening her dear daughter in the living world. Between demon-hunting and passive-aggressive angel support (yes, angels are real and they could be anything but helpful!), how is Eve going to rise above all of this?
Armstrong is literally shoving a lot of stuff into this book. Sorry, but true. Witches, sorcerers, demons, ghosts, and necromancers are a given. But now Armstrong's added angels to the mix, in a desperate attempt to fix an over-crowded character story. They do literally nothing. Armstrong's trying to make the angels do something, but the bottom line is, they're practically useless and more of a downside than an upside to the situation.
There are a lot of underlying plots because of the Nix's body-jumping which take a lot to get used to, and a certain willpower to wander through a stranger's mind that lacks the sarcasm we love so much in Armstrong's protagonists. While the plots are overall helpful in the way Eve tracks that demon, I can't help but feel totally and entirely exasperated with them. The switching between POVs that are not the characters I like/follow is not pleasant when you do it more than 3 times in a single book.
Eve Levine is dead, but she's never been closer to being alive. After helping Paige and Lucas get out of...uhm, is "limbo" a good word to use here? It's more like "a separate ghosts-only dimension," not exactly "purgatory" or anything. But anyway, Eve's promised the Fates a favor, and they're cashing it in. Eve has to track down the elusive serial-killing Nix, a body-hopping demon who's about to start threatening her dear daughter in the living world. Between demon-hunting and passive-aggressive angel support (yes, angels are real and they could be anything but helpful!), how is Eve going to rise above all of this?
Armstrong is literally shoving a lot of stuff into this book. Sorry, but true. Witches, sorcerers, demons, ghosts, and necromancers are a given. But now Armstrong's added angels to the mix, in a desperate attempt to fix an over-crowded character story. They do literally nothing. Armstrong's trying to make the angels do something, but the bottom line is, they're practically useless and more of a downside than an upside to the situation.
There are a lot of underlying plots because of the Nix's body-jumping which take a lot to get used to, and a certain willpower to wander through a stranger's mind that lacks the sarcasm we love so much in Armstrong's protagonists. While the plots are overall helpful in the way Eve tracks that demon, I can't help but feel totally and entirely exasperated with them. The switching between POVs that are not the characters I like/follow is not pleasant when you do it more than 3 times in a single book.