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A review by saviola
Reckoning by Lili St. Crow
3.0
It took me a whole week to finish reading Reckoning because it was so hard to get hooked into. It's not that the plot isn't interesting; it is: Dru on the run, fighting off suckers left and right, things blowing up, tons of fighting and action, Christophe and Graves, 'nuff said. But, it's just so anticlimatic. I feel like Ms. St. Crow's southern-flared style of writing doesn't coalesce quite well with all the butt-kicking and it sort of washes out the action, if you know what I mean. Which by the way, I can't be the only one who gets driven mad by her style of writing. It's pretty much incomprehensible most of the time. The way she describes things that are happening makes you want to ask "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" It's completely mind-blowing. Sometimes she never fully describes how something happens and then later she'll bring it up and say something happened that you didn't know happened. For example: Dru was fighting suckers and she was trying to tell Ash to go find Graves, but he was hesitant to leave her. In order to make him obey she had to do something specific, but you're not really told what. All it says is that she felt the "touch" in her mind, like always, and then Ash yelped and ran off to find Graves... I read that part over like three times before I just moved on. Then later Dru says something about being able to use the "touch" to make Ash obey and all I thought was "Oh, is that what happened? How was I supposed to know that? Her "touch" is ALWAYS flexing and reaching and whatever else, how was I supposed to know that time was any different?" Anyway, a lot of the book is like that, and most of the time there are no explanations, later on or otherwise.
So, it's either that, or I'm just fed up with Dru's inner-monologue. It grates on my brain like glass on a chalkboard. It's the same crap EVERY TIME! She misses her dad and gran and is always imagining things they would do or say if they were still with her, she's sad because her life is a total abysmal wreck and she keeps ruining it worse and worse, she's always hurting and exhausted "to the core", she's always got something lodged in her throat and needs to swallow, and she's pretty much in a continuous state of weeping throughout the entire book. Blah Blah Blah, right? I'm tired of her stupid stretching "touch", and her mother's hot-cold locket, and her citrusy-flavored tongue. All of which are unexplained, by the way. And what's up with her attitude? Christophe nearly dies multiple times for her and in the end she tells him he's creepy and old? Graves almost dies for her once, sells her out multiple other times, and then she cries because he doesn't want to be her boyfriend? FOR-EFFING-REAL?! I just... I can't.
Anyway, if you're anything like me, you hate to see a series end. I've been devastated at times to have to say goodbye to some of my favorite characters; however, that is not the case with Strange Angels. I don't think it's because I don't care - although I was quite relieved to see the last page - but more that I don't really believe it's ending, because that was not an ending. Reckoning's "ending" involves the introduction of a new race of people with more information on who Dru really is, someone leaving but promising to come back, people still missing, problems still needing to be solved, and Dru still not knowing what she wants (Really? that's the type of thing you do at the beginning of a series. By the time it ends you should have gone through some sort of self-discovery or period of enlightenment and decided what, and who, you want.) Which, by the way, "What does Dru stand for anyway?"... "I'll tell you when you come back." WHAT?! Not an ending. Especially that Epilogue. That was the most irrelevant Epilogue I have ever read. Mark my words: It is not finished.
If this truly is the end, and you haven't started the series yet, DON'T! This "ending" is too dissapointing to bother reading through the whole series. If you've started it, you might as well finish, but don't expect any feelings of satisfaction and resolve.
So, it's either that, or I'm just fed up with Dru's inner-monologue. It grates on my brain like glass on a chalkboard. It's the same crap EVERY TIME! She misses her dad and gran and is always imagining things they would do or say if they were still with her, she's sad because her life is a total abysmal wreck and she keeps ruining it worse and worse, she's always hurting and exhausted "to the core", she's always got something lodged in her throat and needs to swallow, and she's pretty much in a continuous state of weeping throughout the entire book. Blah Blah Blah, right? I'm tired of her stupid stretching "touch", and her mother's hot-cold locket, and her citrusy-flavored tongue. All of which are unexplained, by the way. And what's up with her attitude? Christophe nearly dies multiple times for her and in the end she tells him he's creepy and old? Graves almost dies for her once, sells her out multiple other times, and then she cries because he doesn't want to be her boyfriend? FOR-EFFING-REAL?! I just... I can't.
Anyway, if you're anything like me, you hate to see a series end. I've been devastated at times to have to say goodbye to some of my favorite characters; however, that is not the case with Strange Angels. I don't think it's because I don't care - although I was quite relieved to see the last page - but more that I don't really believe it's ending, because that was not an ending. Reckoning's "ending" involves the introduction of a new race of people with more information on who Dru really is, someone leaving but promising to come back, people still missing, problems still needing to be solved, and Dru still not knowing what she wants (Really? that's the type of thing you do at the beginning of a series. By the time it ends you should have gone through some sort of self-discovery or period of enlightenment and decided what, and who, you want.) Which, by the way, "What does Dru stand for anyway?"... "I'll tell you when you come back." WHAT?! Not an ending. Especially that Epilogue. That was the most irrelevant Epilogue I have ever read. Mark my words: It is not finished.
If this truly is the end, and you haven't started the series yet, DON'T! This "ending" is too dissapointing to bother reading through the whole series. If you've started it, you might as well finish, but don't expect any feelings of satisfaction and resolve.