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A review by connie_flower
A Brush of Darkness by Allison Pang
2.0
This book is soooo frustrating because overall the idea of it was good but it was just let down so many times by the author. The story starts off with Abby Sinclair, a woman who's recently lost her mother and been seriously injured in a tragic car accident AND taken on some big resposibilities in the supernatural world. You think that alone would make a good book, but Pang really neglects to fill us in on the backstory enough, just drops bits hear and there to allow the main character to moan about how hard and tragic her life is.
The characters are pretty flat too. They are either JUST the scarey angel or JUST the guy-candy. They aren't at all fully rounded personalities which makes me feel like I couldn't fully relate or connect to what was going on. I couldn't be that bothered either way if half of them lived or died, and I repeatedly got mixed up between to of the peripheral characters - Melanie and Charlie. It's all Abby Abby Abby.
The whole detective style mystery which the plot centers around was terrible, mostly because it took the characters ages to follow up on even the simplest leads. Too busy with disjointed conversations and completely unbelievable relationships, I suppose.
It wasn't so bad, but those few things irritated me so much I wasn't able to focus on the positives. Okay to read on a daily train ride, but I wouldn't pull it off the bookshelf again.
The characters are pretty flat too. They are either JUST the scarey angel or JUST the guy-candy. They aren't at all fully rounded personalities which makes me feel like I couldn't fully relate or connect to what was going on. I couldn't be that bothered either way if half of them lived or died, and I repeatedly got mixed up between to of the peripheral characters - Melanie and Charlie. It's all Abby Abby Abby.
The whole detective style mystery which the plot centers around was terrible, mostly because it took the characters ages to follow up on even the simplest leads. Too busy with disjointed conversations and completely unbelievable relationships, I suppose.
It wasn't so bad, but those few things irritated me so much I wasn't able to focus on the positives. Okay to read on a daily train ride, but I wouldn't pull it off the bookshelf again.