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divapitbull 's review for:
The Scribe
by Elizabeth Hunter
The Scribe was very well written, the world building parts of the story were interesting and overall it was plausible for a paranormal romance/urban fantasy (with the exception of the gun incident - because yes, a world famous director would totally think that was a good idea - not). It just wasn't for me. The only reason I read TS was because it was part of the Darkly Dreaming anthology which I picked up for a different story - and then suffered the curse of the OCD reader and felt compelled to read every other story included.
The premise of TS did sound interesting. I liked the idea of fallen angels and their descendants. The angels fell because they lusted after the hot human women. When God decided to give the angels a free pass - some of them (the forgiven) returned to heaven; and in return God looked upon their children and descendants with favor and they became The Scribes - the Irin and Irina - and they were charged with guiding and watching over humanity. Some of the fallen, however decided to live by the old maxim - better to rule in hell (or on earth as the case may be) then serve in heaven - so they decided to stay fallen. Their children and descendants - which interestingly enough seem to be only male - became the Grigori and they continued to prey on human women – in a soul sucking, leave ‘em for dead, incubi sort of way.
Ava, who has heard voices all her life and was thought to be mentally ill; was flitting about remote areas of the globe looking for peace and working as a free-lance photojournalist when she landed in Istanbul and attracted the attention of both the Grigori and the Irin. It soon became apparent that Ava was something, but crazy wasn’t it.
My complaints with the story are that not much actually seemed to happen. The pace felt incredibly slow. The romance when it developed between Ava and Malachi was quite sweet, but boring and lukewarm at best. The sex which was not overly graphic did nothing to salvage things in the romance department…and with nothing much else going on…
The story which is part of a trilogy, ends on a MFN – that would be a “miserable for now” – which is OK because there are 2 more books in which something needs to happen. I just can’t bring myself to care what that might be.
The premise of TS did sound interesting. I liked the idea of fallen angels and their descendants. The angels fell because they lusted after the hot human women. When God decided to give the angels a free pass - some of them (the forgiven) returned to heaven; and in return God looked upon their children and descendants with favor and they became The Scribes - the Irin and Irina - and they were charged with guiding and watching over humanity. Some of the fallen, however decided to live by the old maxim - better to rule in hell (or on earth as the case may be) then serve in heaven - so they decided to stay fallen. Their children and descendants - which interestingly enough seem to be only male - became the Grigori and they continued to prey on human women – in a soul sucking, leave ‘em for dead, incubi sort of way.
Ava, who has heard voices all her life and was thought to be mentally ill; was flitting about remote areas of the globe looking for peace and working as a free-lance photojournalist when she landed in Istanbul and attracted the attention of both the Grigori and the Irin. It soon became apparent that Ava was something, but crazy wasn’t it.
My complaints with the story are that not much actually seemed to happen. The pace felt incredibly slow. The romance when it developed between Ava and Malachi was quite sweet, but boring and lukewarm at best. The sex which was not overly graphic did nothing to salvage things in the romance department…and with nothing much else going on…
The story which is part of a trilogy, ends on a MFN – that would be a “miserable for now” – which is OK because there are 2 more books in which something needs to happen. I just can’t bring myself to care what that might be.