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A review by hemloc
Forsaken by Kelley Armstrong
4.0
Six reasons to read Forsaken:
1) The story opens with international werewolf politics. There is no way to make that uninteresting if you're a writer like Kelley Armstrong.
2) There’s a lot of family drama, which I enjoyed because it creates conflict and shows that, even in fiction, no family is perfect.
3) I've not always been a fan of Clay's, but he has grown a lot since the first book and is no longer the kind of character I instantly dislike. I loved how worried he was over losing Kate, how afraid he was of telling Elena, and how even so many years later he still enjoys antagonising Karl.
4) This is the first time we really see the whole Pack work together!
5) The twins’s casual commentary as they watch their mother fight was funny.
6) The final plot twist is wonderful.
Four drawbacks to Forsaken:
1) I don't always enjoy how the twins are characterised. They're often too mature even for kids who spend most of their time around adults, especially Logan. Of the two, he’s the least interesting because he isn't given any proper flaws.
2) The plot is convoluted because what the villains are up to doesn't make sense. The scheme they hatch is stupidly complicated and implausible. It’s obvious that it's a means to an end, that end being character development and the final plot twist, but I would have enjoyed the story more if everyone's actions made sense.
3) The story occasionally did that thing where it makes side-characters unrealistically vile so that the hero can shine.
4) Elena annoyed me. All that talk about how women aren't hysterical, yet that's exactly how she acted when Kate went missing. To the point where she kept passing out.
1) The story opens with international werewolf politics. There is no way to make that uninteresting if you're a writer like Kelley Armstrong.
2) There’s a lot of family drama, which I enjoyed because it creates conflict and shows that, even in fiction, no family is perfect.
3) I've not always been a fan of Clay's, but he has grown a lot since the first book and is no longer the kind of character I instantly dislike. I loved how worried he was over losing Kate, how afraid he was of telling Elena, and how even so many years later he still enjoys antagonising Karl.
4) This is the first time we really see the whole Pack work together!
5) The twins’s casual commentary as they watch their mother fight was funny.
6) The final plot twist is wonderful.
Four drawbacks to Forsaken:
1) I don't always enjoy how the twins are characterised. They're often too mature even for kids who spend most of their time around adults, especially Logan. Of the two, he’s the least interesting because he isn't given any proper flaws.
2) The plot is convoluted because what the villains are up to doesn't make sense. The scheme they hatch is stupidly complicated and implausible. It’s obvious that it's a means to an end, that end being character development and the final plot twist, but I would have enjoyed the story more if everyone's actions made sense.
3) The story occasionally did that thing where it makes side-characters unrealistically vile so that the hero can shine.
4) Elena annoyed me. All that talk about how women aren't hysterical, yet that's exactly how she acted when Kate went missing. To the point where she kept passing out.