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Cracked
by Eliza Crewe
Buddy Read 15Feb15 with Buddies Books & Baubles!
3.5 stars
This is a tough one because I love the overall premise and I adore the main character. She's everything I could ever want in an MC -- she kicks ass, she has the snarkiest inner monologue I've ever heard, she's unapologetically sarcastic aloud, and she's stubborn as hell. She doesn't go falling all over the first attractive guy she meetsshe waits til she finds the second or third hottest guy and she's not needy or clingy in any way. She might act like it as part of a cover, but in the meantime she's saying I could take all you bitches with my eyes closed in the back of her mind.
And GOD was I glad she didn't even think about dumbing herself down for that first hot guy, because Chi (NOT Chee, it's Malachi so it's KY, as I internally screamed to myself every time I read his name) is someone I really found laughable. He's got the hero complex and the hot bod, but good lord this boy doesn't seem like he's seen much of the world. Jo was awesome in a (very) prickly way; she doesn't let her handicap stop her and gets pissed as hell when someone else tries to caution her because of it. That's my kinda girl. And I have to say, the whole demons vs Templars + an ass-kicking character named Jo make my brain head down the Supernatural path, and that is NOT a bad thing. You want action, this book's got it. You want tortured lead characters, they're here.
The only problem I had with this book was that it seemed to hit a bit of a lull somewhere near the middle, once the crew was on the run. It might have been because I put the book down for a few days longer than I meant to as well, but yeah. Another part of the mild disappointment may have come from finishing the Croak trilogy and being literally blown away by them, then told that Cracked is better than those books. That set the bar beyond sky-high. That said, I'm definitely picking up the next one because this had so much potential and I really liked the majority of it. And MEDA.
Also, I adored Uri. For some reason by the end of the book I was getting this huge vibe that paralleled him to Ziri from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone books -- anyone else get that?
3.5 stars
This is a tough one because I love the overall premise and I adore the main character. She's everything I could ever want in an MC -- she kicks ass, she has the snarkiest inner monologue I've ever heard, she's unapologetically sarcastic aloud, and she's stubborn as hell. She doesn't go falling all over the first attractive guy she meets
And GOD was I glad she didn't even think about dumbing herself down for that first hot guy, because Chi (NOT Chee, it's Malachi so it's KY, as I internally screamed to myself every time I read his name) is someone I really found laughable. He's got the hero complex and the hot bod, but good lord this boy doesn't seem like he's seen much of the world. Jo was awesome in a (very) prickly way; she doesn't let her handicap stop her and gets pissed as hell when someone else tries to caution her because of it. That's my kinda girl. And I have to say, the whole demons vs Templars + an ass-kicking character named Jo make my brain head down the Supernatural path, and that is NOT a bad thing. You want action, this book's got it. You want tortured lead characters, they're here.
The only problem I had with this book was that it seemed to hit a bit of a lull somewhere near the middle, once the crew was on the run. It might have been because I put the book down for a few days longer than I meant to as well, but yeah. Another part of the mild disappointment may have come from finishing the Croak trilogy and being literally blown away by them, then told that Cracked is better than those books. That set the bar beyond sky-high. That said, I'm definitely picking up the next one because this had so much potential and I really liked the majority of it. And MEDA.
Also, I adored Uri. For some reason by the end of the book I was getting this huge vibe that paralleled him to Ziri from the Daughter of Smoke & Bone books -- anyone else get that?