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A review by katyanaish
Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson
3.0
***3.5***
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a solid introduction to this world and these characters. But I am being a little cautious in my review and my expectations as I move forward with the series, because there are some serious shades of Anita Blake at play here. Given that that series became a total crap-fest, it makes me nervous. Anyway, here's what we have:
Our heroine, Persephone, is a more powerful witch than she realizes. Further, she seems to have an important role to play in keeping the balance between various factions in the supernatural world. This comes as a shock to her, because frankly she's a bit of a loner. I like her a lot.
Johnny is the powerful warewolf who is infatuated with her. He's sweet, strong, adores her, all good things. He is also wildly jealous of the attention she is receiving from a vampire, and is prone to doing shitty things and/or putting her into shitty positions because of that jealousy. At this stage of the game, I like him quite a bit (which was true with Richard in the beginning of Anita Blake, whereas now I would just like him to be run over by a truck), but I am wary because of these jealousy-induced poor decisions.
Menessos is the uber-powerful vampire (in the beginning here, the assumption is that he is out of the warewolf's league in terms of strength, which is again on-par with Anita Blake). He's mysterious and angsty (this is probably true of 99% of vamps in UF though), and seems to be utterly fascinated with Persephone. He is happy to manipulate her for his own ends, and compromise her so that she is forced to make devil's bargains with him. Sound familiar?
Anyway. I don't mean to make it sound like there is nothing else going on in the book - there is, and I enjoyed it, and I am already nearly through with the second book, honestly. But the above summarizes why I am approaching the series with caution. Not getting too invested.
Here's hoping things play out better for Persephone than they did with Anita.
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a solid introduction to this world and these characters. But I am being a little cautious in my review and my expectations as I move forward with the series, because there are some serious shades of Anita Blake at play here. Given that that series became a total crap-fest, it makes me nervous. Anyway, here's what we have:
Our heroine, Persephone, is a more powerful witch than she realizes. Further, she seems to have an important role to play in keeping the balance between various factions in the supernatural world. This comes as a shock to her, because frankly she's a bit of a loner. I like her a lot.
Johnny is the powerful warewolf who is infatuated with her. He's sweet, strong, adores her, all good things. He is also wildly jealous of the attention she is receiving from a vampire, and is prone to doing shitty things and/or putting her into shitty positions because of that jealousy. At this stage of the game, I like him quite a bit (which was true with Richard in the beginning of Anita Blake, whereas now I would just like him to be run over by a truck), but I am wary because of these jealousy-induced poor decisions.
Menessos is the uber-powerful vampire (in the beginning here, the assumption is that he is out of the warewolf's league in terms of strength, which is again on-par with Anita Blake). He's mysterious and angsty (this is probably true of 99% of vamps in UF though), and seems to be utterly fascinated with Persephone. He is happy to manipulate her for his own ends, and compromise her so that she is forced to make devil's bargains with him. Sound familiar?
Anyway. I don't mean to make it sound like there is nothing else going on in the book - there is, and I enjoyed it, and I am already nearly through with the second book, honestly. But the above summarizes why I am approaching the series with caution. Not getting too invested.
Here's hoping things play out better for Persephone than they did with Anita.