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Thirteen
by Kelley Armstrong
Taken that this is the last book in the series, I have so many issues.
Spoilers ahead.
So just to cite a few off the top of my head, in no particular order of appearance:
- Bringing Eve back into the world of the living. Emotionally, love it, but if I think about it, there was no point to it. The baddies don't do anything with her, including capture, so why did they work so hard to bring her back?
- We have this super clairvoyant boy in the midst of things, as the strongest one ever, and a divine sign to the supernatural world. Do we ever meet him, despite the big search going to find him? No.
- If we are at that, Giles did a whole speech about the signs, mentioning another sorcerer/witch hybrid that we never get to hear any more about. Basically, besides Savannah and Hope, no Holy Sign of Revolution actually is in the book.
- Savannah was said to be so important, but honestly she doesn't do much, and the baddie doesn't want much to do with her either.
- People are talking about Jeremy's kitsune lineage casually, but as far as I remember we had no reveal of it. It just randomly showed up as a fact and that's about it.
- In Frostbitten, the Russian Pack leader hints Elena might have werewolf lineage, and I've been dying to see Elena go and find it out. She doesn't. Or if she does, it's off-screen so it's not like we'd know about it.
My point is: there were so many signs and hints placed, characters carefully constructed, storylines throughout multiple books set up. But in the end, it felt anticlimactic. The big baddie wants to spread a virus, which doesn't even need the army he collected, by the way, and is of course duped. Papa Lucifer can't interfere but still makes an appearance. Savannah loses her powers for a reason, but I didn't see much change or point when she gets them back. Basically, anyone else could've lost their powers for the same reason and that's about it.
Savannah was supposed to be the strongest supernatural. Since she was a child she was special. She had a special coming of age ceremony to fully unbind her powers by Hekate. She had a boy sacrificed to protect her life. And we never really hear about these or see their effects.
So yeah, I love the world, the characters, especially the Levine women, they were awesome, but I would've liked to be blown away by the ending. Instead, it felt a bit like this revolution was broken down silently, despite the big looming war that was promised by the synopsis. And yes, I'm sad to have no more to read, and to have to switch to other books now.
Spoilers ahead.
So just to cite a few off the top of my head, in no particular order of appearance:
- Bringing Eve back into the world of the living. Emotionally, love it, but if I think about it, there was no point to it. The baddies don't do anything with her, including capture, so why did they work so hard to bring her back?
- We have this super clairvoyant boy in the midst of things, as the strongest one ever, and a divine sign to the supernatural world. Do we ever meet him, despite the big search going to find him? No.
- If we are at that, Giles did a whole speech about the signs, mentioning another sorcerer/witch hybrid that we never get to hear any more about. Basically, besides Savannah and Hope, no Holy Sign of Revolution actually is in the book.
- Savannah was said to be so important, but honestly she doesn't do much, and the baddie doesn't want much to do with her either.
- People are talking about Jeremy's kitsune lineage casually, but as far as I remember we had no reveal of it. It just randomly showed up as a fact and that's about it.
- In Frostbitten, the Russian Pack leader hints Elena might have werewolf lineage, and I've been dying to see Elena go and find it out. She doesn't. Or if she does, it's off-screen so it's not like we'd know about it.
My point is: there were so many signs and hints placed, characters carefully constructed, storylines throughout multiple books set up. But in the end, it felt anticlimactic. The big baddie wants to spread a virus, which doesn't even need the army he collected, by the way, and is of course duped. Papa Lucifer can't interfere but still makes an appearance. Savannah loses her powers for a reason, but I didn't see much change or point when she gets them back. Basically, anyone else could've lost their powers for the same reason and that's about it.
Savannah was supposed to be the strongest supernatural. Since she was a child she was special. She had a special coming of age ceremony to fully unbind her powers by Hekate. She had a boy sacrificed to protect her life. And we never really hear about these or see their effects.
So yeah, I love the world, the characters, especially the Levine women, they were awesome, but I would've liked to be blown away by the ending. Instead, it felt a bit like this revolution was broken down silently, despite the big looming war that was promised by the synopsis. And yes, I'm sad to have no more to read, and to have to switch to other books now.