All in all, the end wasn't horrible. What a dreg to get there though.
Out of 480 pages, about 100 are passable, 50 of which are genuinely enjoyable.
Rachel whines. She might be in a tough spot, but she whines a lot. It takes her forever to get off her ass and do stuff. She just sits there and takes punches for the first half of the book and only does fuck-all about it in the last hundred or so pages. Mostly, I just thought "where did her spark go, for God's sake? She's more dull than flat 7up..."
What ruins it is Pierce. Pierce gets more screen time than Jenks, which is un-fucking-believable. There's no chemistry there, no spark, nothing, and yet he's constantly being shoved down the reader's throat. As you can probably expect, the intimate moments are just *shivers* god-awful.
Ivy is an afterthought. She's often there but mostly she only watches, she does very little, and she has only the briefest cute moments. She sorta kicks a little ass towards the end, but mostly, she's criminally underused, as usual. There's nary a bone to be found for Ravy shippers in the whole book, but, *********SPOILERS********* Rachel does finally admit attraction and feelings "more than sisterly that she can't pursue". I'm not getting my hopes up. The burns from the last time(s) still hurt.
Jenks rocks in this one, though. Gotta give KH her due, she knows her four inches tall blabber mouths.
Al is fairly entertaining, but fuck it, I don't want Rachel to cozy up to him, he's not in a fucking grey moral area, he's at the black end of the spectrum.
Trent is being a bad guy in this one, which is how I like him the most. Of course, in the end, it's not his fault, as usual. Huge whatever.
The bad guys, even if they're supposed to be these nasty badass boogey men, come off as annoying wimps bordering on incompetence after the first few encounters. Their nasty evil master plot is just... urgh. Let's just say you'll be tired of hearing the words "lobotomy" and "ovaries" by the time you hit page 50.
All in all, it's bad. Real bad. I can't recommend it in good faith. All I can say is stay away.
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Date: 2010-02-25 02:14 am (UTC)All in all, the end wasn't horrible. What a dreg to get there though.
Out of 480 pages, about 100 are passable, 50 of which are genuinely enjoyable.
Rachel whines. She might be in a tough spot, but she whines a lot. It takes her forever to get off her ass and do stuff. She just sits there and takes punches for the first half of the book and only does fuck-all about it in the last hundred or so pages. Mostly, I just thought "where did her spark go, for God's sake? She's more dull than flat 7up..."
What ruins it is Pierce. Pierce gets more screen time than Jenks, which is un-fucking-believable. There's no chemistry there, no spark, nothing, and yet he's constantly being shoved down the reader's throat. As you can probably expect, the intimate moments are just *shivers* god-awful.
Ivy is an afterthought. She's often there but mostly she only watches, she does very little, and she has only the briefest cute moments. She sorta kicks a little ass towards the end, but mostly, she's criminally underused, as usual. There's nary a bone to be found for Ravy shippers in the whole book, but, *********SPOILERS********* Rachel does finally admit attraction and feelings "more than sisterly that she can't pursue". I'm not getting my hopes up. The burns from the last time(s) still hurt.
Jenks rocks in this one, though. Gotta give KH her due, she knows her four inches tall blabber mouths.
Al is fairly entertaining, but fuck it, I don't want Rachel to cozy up to him, he's not in a fucking grey moral area, he's at the black end of the spectrum.
Trent is being a bad guy in this one, which is how I like him the most. Of course, in the end, it's not his fault, as usual. Huge whatever.
The bad guys, even if they're supposed to be these nasty badass boogey men, come off as annoying wimps bordering on incompetence after the first few encounters. Their nasty evil master plot is just... urgh. Let's just say you'll be tired of hearing the words "lobotomy" and "ovaries" by the time you hit page 50.
All in all, it's bad. Real bad. I can't recommend it in good faith. All I can say is stay away.