[Spoilers!] This book was just horrible. First off, I was constantly double checking as it read like a book late in a series–it just jumped right in to relationships and action that apparently had been developing for centuries. Academically, it’s an interesting writing device. Perhaps we’ll get the rest in a flashback, but no, that’s not happening.
Instead, the author “caught us up” by blatantly telling us all about the characters, which strikes me as lazy–like using voiceover in a movie to advance the plot rather than taking the time to write scenes and dialogue that reveals it. Then there’s the annoyance of characters that are familiar to anyone who reads these type of novels–there’s really not much new here.
By the time I got through all that to the plot itself, I didn’t much care that there was something there, as I was pretty done with the whole thing. I read cover to cover, but was speed reading at the end, just to get it over with as quickly as possible. I won’t be picking up any more in the series, or from the author, she’s now in the category with Morgan Rice.
