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mackle13 's review for:
Dead of Winter
by Lee Collins
This book was "ok", and that's about it.
In the Old West, Cora and her husband Ben are bounty hunters of supernatural critters. Ben annoyed me for most of the book, though, because he didn't really do much of anything. There's a reason for this you find out later, but it didn't really change how I felt about the earlier parts.
And Cora - well, Cora's a nasty drunk and a generally disagreeable person. I mean, I liked flawed protagonists and all, but Cora was just kind of annoying, and it was hard to really get into her story all that much.
Anyway - there are sort of two stories, as the town we're in, whose name I forget, gets attacked first by one creature and then another. I did give the book some points for having the first creature be something you don't see everyday in these sorts of books - a, and also for sticking to the lore pretty well.
But a lot of the story was pretty basic - information sessions to discover the nature of the bounty, and some fights that ya gotta lose a bit first, and then win, so on and so forth.
As I was never really invested in the characters, and as the plotline didn't offer much in the way of originality - the one twist having been telegraphed from about a mile away and, thus, offering no surprise or pathos - nor was it written in any kind of interesting way, I was pretty meh about the whole thing.
Not a horrible book, but far from great, and I doubt I'll be continuing the series.
In the Old West, Cora and her husband Ben are bounty hunters of supernatural critters. Ben annoyed me for most of the book, though, because he didn't really do much of anything. There's a reason for this you find out later, but it didn't really change how I felt about the earlier parts.
And Cora - well, Cora's a nasty drunk and a generally disagreeable person. I mean, I liked flawed protagonists and all, but Cora was just kind of annoying, and it was hard to really get into her story all that much.
Anyway - there are sort of two stories, as the town we're in, whose name I forget, gets attacked first by one creature and then another. I did give the book some points for having the first creature be something you don't see everyday in these sorts of books - a
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WendigoBut a lot of the story was pretty basic - information sessions to discover the nature of the bounty, and some fights that ya gotta lose a bit first, and then win, so on and so forth.
As I was never really invested in the characters, and as the plotline didn't offer much in the way of originality - the one twist having been telegraphed from about a mile away and, thus, offering no surprise or pathos - nor was it written in any kind of interesting way, I was pretty meh about the whole thing.
Not a horrible book, but far from great, and I doubt I'll be continuing the series.