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A review by frostbitsky
Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I got this almost 10 years ago at New York Comic Con 2013. There was a free signing that a friend and I got in line for. I don't know what prompted us to do so except that at the time I would get anything that was free at a con. Now I'm more thoughtful and selective.
I liked the world building and the mythology. It's a good start to a series because it does leave a lot of questions.
Zoe being an archeologist reminded me of Diana Bishop from A Discovery of Witches becoming an alchemy historian. Both were ignorant of their supernatural abilities and yet were instinctively drawn to choose professions that are linked to those abilities.
There are lots of characters and details to remember. I did sometimes forget some of them. There are several different groups of villains after Zoe. Zoe also makes several (questionable?) allies.
There's lots of action in different locations. Sometimes I did find the actions scenes to be too vague and I couldn't picture what was happening.
The story is not all dark and heavy. The humor did make me chuckle.
The end did have a dark turn though and it ends on a cliffhanger. Makes sense since it's a trilogy. I want answers, but I also didn't love it. So I'm not motivated to continue. I wonder if I read it 10 years ago if I would've loved it and read the sequels. I'll never know.
3 out of 5 Artifacts.
Quote I liked:
Page 334 - All archeology is destruction, I thought as I worked, trying to ignore the blood welling from the cuts on my clawed fingers. As we dig, we destroy context. But we do it so that we can get the information, more important the artifacts themselves, no matter how fascinating they might be.
I liked the world building and the mythology. It's a good start to a series because it does leave a lot of questions.
Zoe being an archeologist reminded me of Diana Bishop from A Discovery of Witches becoming an alchemy historian. Both were ignorant of their supernatural abilities and yet were instinctively drawn to choose professions that are linked to those abilities.
There are lots of characters and details to remember. I did sometimes forget some of them. There are several different groups of villains after Zoe. Zoe also makes several (questionable?) allies.
There's lots of action in different locations. Sometimes I did find the actions scenes to be too vague and I couldn't picture what was happening.
The story is not all dark and heavy. The humor did make me chuckle.
The end did have a dark turn though and it ends on a cliffhanger. Makes sense since it's a trilogy. I want answers, but I also didn't love it. So I'm not motivated to continue. I wonder if I read it 10 years ago if I would've loved it and read the sequels. I'll never know.
3 out of 5 Artifacts.
Quote I liked:
Page 334 - All archeology is destruction, I thought as I worked, trying to ignore the blood welling from the cuts on my clawed fingers. As we dig, we destroy context. But we do it so that we can get the information, more important the artifacts themselves, no matter how fascinating they might be.