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A review by saphibella
The Lies of Vampires and Slayers by K.M. Shea
3.0
3.5 stars although I loved large parts of this, there was an aspect that was written in a manner that ruined that part. I plan to read book 2, so those lackluster parts did not take away from the overall enjoyment.
Part fantasy. Part developing romance? Part detective/police mystery.
I have read two other magiford series, I know the world building, and find it solid and interesting.
I love the developing relationship between Considine and Jade, both the masked and unmasked interactions are fun and engaging.
Jade’s personality quirks are quite fun. Her ability to burn any food that requires heating is reaching absurd levels. Her social anxiety is well written.
Considine also has quite the personality quirk. He is exasperated with his charges, that his best friend made him promise to care for and protect as he was dying. He is overall bored with existence, but manage to see the absurd in most things, and thus finds amusement that way.
Where the book stumbles is Jades job, because the detective part of this is not well written. Clues are found, but who has what clues, and what is reported and not reported is unclear. Someone is plotting something, Jade has her thoughts about what is going on, but we are not told which thoughts are shared, and which are just guesses she has not yet shared with her superiors, it is one big mess.
But suddenly her superiors have concluded who the culprit is, even though the steps to how they reached that conclusion are missing in what the reader gets informed about, so I sat with a feeling of accidentally having skipped something because I was confused as to how they reached that conclusion, and how they got the clues that they had.
It also seems that they might have been to quick in their conclusions, but are still open to other developments, but the author really needs to straighten her writing, so as to ensure that the reader is brought along, instead of just dumping something in there for the reader to believe.
Part fantasy. Part developing romance? Part detective/police mystery.
I have read two other magiford series, I know the world building, and find it solid and interesting.
I love the developing relationship between Considine and Jade, both the masked and unmasked interactions are fun and engaging.
Jade’s personality quirks are quite fun. Her ability to burn any food that requires heating is reaching absurd levels. Her social anxiety is well written.
Considine also has quite the personality quirk. He is exasperated with his charges, that his best friend made him promise to care for and protect as he was dying. He is overall bored with existence, but manage to see the absurd in most things, and thus finds amusement that way.
Where the book stumbles is Jades job, because the detective part of this is not well written. Clues are found, but who has what clues, and what is reported and not reported is unclear. Someone is plotting something, Jade has her thoughts about what is going on, but we are not told which thoughts are shared, and which are just guesses she has not yet shared with her superiors, it is one big mess.
But suddenly her superiors have concluded who the culprit is, even though the steps to how they reached that conclusion are missing in what the reader gets informed about, so I sat with a feeling of accidentally having skipped something because I was confused as to how they reached that conclusion, and how they got the clues that they had.
It also seems that they might have been to quick in their conclusions, but are still open to other developments, but the author really needs to straighten her writing, so as to ensure that the reader is brought along, instead of just dumping something in there for the reader to believe.