What happened to this series? The book before was bad and this was worse in some ways. It didn't even attempt to make some thing plausible. It just glWhat happened to this series? The book before was bad and this was worse in some ways. It didn't even attempt to make some thing plausible. It just glossed over them.
We get Bowen and Kaia. They have insta-love connection, which is really fucked up because Kaia thinks Bowen kidnapped and murdered her friends and family. Her literal reason for trusting him was because she was in love with him. And everyone in that place is all cool with it, basically. Even her cousin.
What's worse is that he's got the degrading chip in his head and he was brought to this facility to get "treatment". They gave him like a 5% chance of survival but that was never touched upon. He made no real plans. He just decides to seduce Kaia. He has two whole weeks and he does all this these elaborate things, while not having any access to anything. He's got TWO WEEKS with a 5% CHANCE of SURVIVAL and he's seducing his changling "mate" (who mate once per lifetime and either die or survive alone for the rest of their lives.) And no one's like 'um, why don't you wait until you've survived to mate with her?' or 'hey, you kidnapped and killed ppl. perhaps we shouldn't have you walking around our kids?'
And you know he's gunna survive the chip thing but still! You except... something! It's just like 'I'm still alive. Coolies.' and he continues on.
The outside plot with the other group was interesting but it was barely touched upon. He kept telling Mal 'I'll deal with it' and that would be that. His sister/friend did all the work. It was just one big romance fest.
Here we find a wild Author when she simply phones in her plot and makes the most genetic, boring, formI feel like I just ran a triathlon. I really do.
Here we find a wild Author when she simply phones in her plot and makes the most genetic, boring, formulaic book that ever has been. And fuck 'Silver Fucking Mercant'. Talk about the single most annoying saying in this book.
You wanna know how unmemorable this book is? How utterly boring it was? I finished this like 4 hrs or so ago, right? I had to look up Silver's last name just then.
Firstly, the author doesn't know anything about first aid. The MC is a paramedic/fire fighter and it's 2.5 stars - JFC, this is a hard one to review.
Firstly, the author doesn't know anything about first aid. The MC is a paramedic/fire fighter and it's blatantly obvious that the author didn't even bother to review the subject. The MC is hurt in ways that would've flat out killed her. There's a scene, in the beginning, when she's trying to flee him and he shoots her twice in the back with arrows. One is a gut wound that she feels nicked something vital. I'm thinking, well if she wants to kill herself and make her suffering end, she could just reach around and pull out the arrows. Then Pestilence comes and rips out the arrows, ties her to his horse, and rides off. A. Gut. Wound. He doesn't dress the wound in any way and he drags her behind the horse.
How the fuck did she not bleed out in 5 minutes, much less survive being dragged? That's a form of torture people used when you were sentenced to be Drawn and Quartered. It apparently dislocated one of her arms but let's gloss over that injury too, because having a dislocation for hours doesn't have lasting effects, amirite?
But it's cool because Pestilence can stop infection... Really. This is what she tells us. Because infection is the only thing that causes death.
Beyond that... the relationship... I just couldn't. The two did horrible, terrible things to each other. Sara because he was Pestilence and Pestilence out of revenge, and I couldn't get past them. And I mean horrible, HORRIBLE things. She burned him alive (pour liter fluid on him and all) and he shot her, dragged her behind him, made her stay with the plague victims to nurse them as they died, etc. I'm not one of those to think you can cancel bad things with other bad things, you know?
It was just too much.
Further beyond that, there really isn't a plot. He just rides through towns. It's just them talking, staying at houses, dealing with ppl trying to kill him, etc. It's meandering....more
This one truly made up for the last one. I love, love, loved this one. From start to finish. I love their relationship. I love the world building. I rThis one truly made up for the last one. I love, love, loved this one. From start to finish. I love their relationship. I love the world building. I really loved the sisters too. Seeing more from them was awesome. Just a good book from start to finish....more
I feel like my life has sunk to a new low. This is one of those books that makes you question all your life choices. I feel like I was on a tall bridgI feel like my life has sunk to a new low. This is one of those books that makes you question all your life choices. I feel like I was on a tall bridge, threatening suicide, and then someone said 'yes, kill yourself.' So I did and now I'm in the Hell of having read this POS.
I can't even think of one good thing to say. In this book, we get a stupid woman, insta love, triangle love, and everyone complimenting the stupid woman. She's 40 something and she's chasing after these two guys, who she spent MAYBE 30 minutes total alone time with, determined they're her true LOVE. We even get fucking electric sparks when she touches them. She's basically acting like a smitten 16 year old.
Wait, I thought this was the adult horror genre I was reading!
The mystery was ridiculous and very simple. You see through the mysteries instantly. It took her the whole fucking book to realize Nate's story didn't add up -- all it took me was a minute and basic arithmetic. Then we finally get to the mystery (after she's chased the two guys around like a horny teen) and the "evil" is laughable. It's like the most cliche version of evil, complete with evil laughter and telling the girl all the details.
JFC. The saddest part is is that, no, I didn't die when I jumped off that bridge and now I get to live with the memory of this festering shit pile. This is one of the very few books I'll go through the trouble of returning....more
I really enjoyed this. Harrison is sort of hit and miss for me. I either love her or hate her stuff.
The biggest problem I had with this was with SophiI really enjoyed this. Harrison is sort of hit and miss for me. I either love her or hate her stuff.
The biggest problem I had with this was with Sophie. My god, Sophie. She was a cliche and a caricature all rapped in one. This is really, really bad when she was one half of the couple. My god was she annoying! It was like Harrison took the most cliche version of a feminist, the over the top butch kind, put her in a nice, cute body, and called it a day.
This girl literally bitches Every. Single. Time. ANYONE gives her ANY orders. She has to stop everything to inform everyone around her how she's an independent woman, who's her own country, and how she won't just do whatever a man tells her. This was regardless of what was happening. I think there was only one time in the book that she let it go without a comment.
It was really over the top. Ridiculously so. I'm an adult. I don't need to tell everyone I meet that I'm an adult. If I don't want to do what they tell me to do, I just don't do it. I don't need to make a fucking speech about it.
And then she'd just roll over most of the time anyway.
This was the conflict in their relationship. This was the entire conflict and they fought about it daily. They literally knew each other for about 3 days over the course of the book and they had two sessions of "make up" sex.
It was so asinine. Like, right at the end, after the big battle, she just drives off to prove to Nick that she's an adult and she can leave if she wants to. They didn't catch the big bad guy. The house was still in her name, and that was the critical issue for the entire book. There were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of lives depending on that, and she just drives away. To make a point about how mature and independent she is. What is that? I'm honestly curious.
I liked the concept. I liked that the betrayer wasn't the obvious choice, but I disliked this aspect of Sophie so much that I'm not certain I'll read the other books....more
What's wrong with this is basically... the everything. I can't think of anything good about it.
Wait. I lied. There was two things: it's very, very shoWhat's wrong with this is basically... the everything. I can't think of anything good about it.
Wait. I lied. There was two things: it's very, very short and it was action from start to finish.
You might be thinking that isn't bad. An action packed UF! Wow!
You should know, however, that 95% of the events in the book had nothing to do with the plot of the book. She's a tracker who tracks kids. She's given a kid to track but, right from the beginning, we learn this kid isn't in the "real world" so she goes to tell her computer savvy friend to find likely spots for where she is. And after that, it's just basically killing time until her friend calls her back.
The entire book is just one long time killer.
It could've still been interesting but for, well, the fact that this author is a HUGE believer in deus ex machina and conveniences. She doesn't get out of anything on her own. Every, single, freakin' time someone either saves her or there's a convenience that means it became way easier than the author told us it would be.
She also has a destiny, of which we are told by like 10 different characters. Over and over. And tri-colored eyes. Because two different colors are SO last year.
But on the subject of conveniences/ deus ex machina, this author is like... golden. Every would-be author should read this book to learn what not to do. It is the worst case of this I've ever read. Example:
Three harpies swoop to kill her. We're told they're ubber strong and she and her witchy friend barely managed to kill on a year ago. She literally kills the first in the first swing of the sword. It was a "lucky" hit. She gets in her car. She's in the middle of a desert but no problem. There just so happens to be a large herd of Unicorns, the natural enemies of harpies, that swoop in to save her from the second and she learns a special word to save her from the third.
She needs climbing gear to go down this mine so she and the guy goes out. Nonsense action, they come back, oh look -- the police following them are helpfully killed by harpy 3, the magical word works, and WOW! all the climbing gear and shit she needs is magically in the police vehicles! How convenient is that?!
It's like that the entire book. Utter bullshit from start to finish....more
Let me just say that I think she did a very good job with the challenges that this book presented. Almost every character that had a book or short stoLet me just say that I think she did a very good job with the challenges that this book presented. Almost every character that had a book or short story is in this one. She used three loose main plot lines to do this. They were fuzzy but I don't think she could've done better than that.
Why the 3 stars then? Well, because it was very hard to read. I had to break it up. It was more the nature of the genre/series than anything. It was one very, very long sap fest. Was there a scene that someone's heart DIDN'T explode or someone's life wasn't shattered by their boundless love?
Every breath every character took was a earth breaking, heart exploding, etc fest. There were hearts exploding wherever. JFC, 20% in and I was like CALL THE FUCKING DOCTOR! THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG ABOUT ALL THESE HEARTS EXPLODING.
In the Romantic genre, you get that. I understand. But much of those books have a limit to the sap. The couple often hates or doesn't give a shit about the potential partner. We only get the heart exploding from two characters, and that generally happens mostly in the second half.
I'm in a reading slump. A READING SLUMP! Shoot me. So I thought I'd pick up a genre I haven't read in YEARS. Thus, PR and a Feehan dark story. I lovedI'm in a reading slump. A READING SLUMP! Shoot me. So I thought I'd pick up a genre I haven't read in YEARS. Thus, PR and a Feehan dark story. I loved her dark series in the beginning but after 10+, they really went down hill fast. Still, this is a novella so I thought what the hell?
I realize that's exactly what I got. T_T This book is great if...
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Basically. It's Feehan's basic set up. Girl in trouble, overly aggressive man, etc. Except this one is just horrible. They have sex literally the first time they met and all the while she's saying NO. This goes on for chapters. At one point, he demands a blow job and is like 'look at me while you're doing it so I know you want to do it' while she's STILL SAYING NO. Seriously. And he's using his superior psychic abilities to force her and he tied them together before they'd even spoken like 10 sentences to each other.
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You know what people in the real world call that? We call that rape.
Skipped the sex scenes again. LOL. A bit better than the last. I wish they'd tell the world about her animal though. I kind of feel like this child isSkipped the sex scenes again. LOL. A bit better than the last. I wish they'd tell the world about her animal though. I kind of feel like this child is to make up for the author screwing up the whole Liam thing but maybe not.
It felt abrupt though. Like suddenly Dragos was okay and The. End....more
I... didn't like this. I fell flat for me. There was action and that kept me reading, but that's about all.
I just didn't like how abrupt it was in theI... didn't like this. I fell flat for me. There was action and that kept me reading, but that's about all.
I just didn't like how abrupt it was in the character development department. It's like people tell her something and she immediately was like 'okei dokei' and that was that.
"You know you're a Prime." "Alright." "You know you love me." "Alright."
Bleh. I also thought the villains and their actions were stupid. They all conveniently die before they can tell their motives so the progression of the story line really isn't in this one.
It was also very unmemorable. I literally forgot the contents of this book days after I read it and that almost never happens. Thus the reason this review is so late. I've been trying to make myself reread it but I finally said screw it.
I DID love Cornelius and his daughter. They are great additions to the plot. I loved seeing the sisters in action too. Their magic is so fascinating....more
I didn't even know this book was coming out. I loved it. XD Rogan reminded me of Curren, though. I bet Nev's a prime. I didn't even know this book was coming out. I loved it. XD Rogan reminded me of Curren, though. I bet Nev's a prime. ...more
Horrible! Absolutely horrible! He's two thousand years or more old and yet it would seem like he'd never smelled food before. It was bad enough that IHorrible! Absolutely horrible! He's two thousand years or more old and yet it would seem like he'd never smelled food before. It was bad enough that I actually felt embarrassed reading this book. That's a new experience!...more
Boring. I was going through my audible books to see if I'd missed reading one and found this. I found this to be boring and I skimmed through much of Boring. I was going through my audible books to see if I'd missed reading one and found this. I found this to be boring and I skimmed through much of the book....more
God, save me from these utterly shitty books. I read this book hoping that it would be better then the last but I honestly feel like it's much worse. God, save me from these utterly shitty books. I read this book hoping that it would be better then the last but I honestly feel like it's much worse. That's a bad thing, seeing as the first book was fucking terrible. I skimmed and skipped more in this book than the last.
I hate all the characters but especially the main character. It's like she's a 'tween and it so fucking annoying. I love how the author tried to back peddle that whole 'we can't pick winning lotto numbers because it doesn't work that way' shit. The whole money issues in this book are completely unwarranted -- see as she just proved she could make millions off betting on races and such.
The relationship is terrible. I don't know why he puts up with her. She's a screw. He's doing his job, saving lives and all that. It's like she's some jealous man that can't stand to see any other man talk to his girl. That's totally the vibe I got.
Her relationship to her sister is shameful. I get she wants to be independent and all, but grow the fuck up. Stop thinking about yourself so damn much. People like giving things to their loved ones. So what if she's a billionaire or whatever. Deal with it. Martyring yourself is so fucking annoying.
Oh, but the cherry on this steaming pile of shit is how the author victim blamed his work partner when she was killed. Suddenly, she's a terrible FBI agent. Suddenly, she's not taking enough precautions. My mind seriously came to a complete halt and I thought 'did the author just kill off a character because her immature MC didn't like her?'
Why, yes, I do believe that's the came. I'll never read this author again....more
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