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anastasiaadamov 's review for:
Crimson Death
by Laurell K. Hamilton
This one took longer to read than I anticipated.
I enjoy intricate world the author has created and many characters that inhabit it.
While I was glad to see how Anita tackled Ireland and some new supernatural creatures; I'm not so sure how much I liked the development this book brought to the series as a whole.
Here are the things I have issues about:
Spoiler alert!
First, since it is still fresh that last death of Rodrigo was so convenient that it just left a bad aftertaste for the whole 700+ pages book!
Second, I'm not sure if this was the authors intention (?) but the fact that second part of the book actually happens outside of the USA my EU native feels started to show up. I have a nickname for Anita - Happy Trigger. When the clash of cultures between gun loving American stereotype came full on against the peace loving Irish Gardai who mostly don't even carry weapons the whole shoot first approach came in to light full swing.
I'm going to make a "benefit of the doubt" theory that the author has finally decided to open the character up to stop being a cop-like type of a character.
Otherwise the main character just comes of like a paranoid and delusional counterpart of the monsters she has battled for the last 25+ books...
Also the cop and military, AKKA boys and their toys references are really starting to be cringe worthy. I don't know if these repetitive extra lines and explanation on police and other mostly male dominant professions are induced by the editor or the author but somebody should intervene for them to stop...This would take out at least 100 pages out of the book. If somebody did not get that in the first 25 books they never will. Constantly explaining the same things over and over makes the readers feel treated as idiots. This way author comes as insecure woman that needs to keep mainspalining to her readers same thing over and over...
Last but not least - for a book that has been promoted as a trip to Ireland it took way too long for the actual travel to happen in the book. As usual once the action got started it all got over really quick. This kind of approach makes me feel kinda cheated on in the end...
Last few books character development was centered around other characters than Anita and I'm really interested in those.
I'm still staying on with this series but there were some really questionable moments in this book.
I enjoy intricate world the author has created and many characters that inhabit it.
While I was glad to see how Anita tackled Ireland and some new supernatural creatures; I'm not so sure how much I liked the development this book brought to the series as a whole.
Here are the things I have issues about:
Spoiler alert!
First, since it is still fresh that last death of Rodrigo was so convenient that it just left a bad aftertaste for the whole 700+ pages book!
Second, I'm not sure if this was the authors intention (?) but the fact that second part of the book actually happens outside of the USA my EU native feels started to show up. I have a nickname for Anita - Happy Trigger. When the clash of cultures between gun loving American stereotype came full on against the peace loving Irish Gardai who mostly don't even carry weapons the whole shoot first approach came in to light full swing.
I'm going to make a "benefit of the doubt" theory that the author has finally decided to open the character up to stop being a cop-like type of a character.
Otherwise the main character just comes of like a paranoid and delusional counterpart of the monsters she has battled for the last 25+ books...
Also the cop and military, AKKA boys and their toys references are really starting to be cringe worthy. I don't know if these repetitive extra lines and explanation on police and other mostly male dominant professions are induced by the editor or the author but somebody should intervene for them to stop...This would take out at least 100 pages out of the book. If somebody did not get that in the first 25 books they never will. Constantly explaining the same things over and over makes the readers feel treated as idiots. This way author comes as insecure woman that needs to keep mainspalining to her readers same thing over and over...
Last but not least - for a book that has been promoted as a trip to Ireland it took way too long for the actual travel to happen in the book. As usual once the action got started it all got over really quick. This kind of approach makes me feel kinda cheated on in the end...
Last few books character development was centered around other characters than Anita and I'm really interested in those.
I'm still staying on with this series but there were some really questionable moments in this book.