![]() ![]() I did like that she took time out from her busy life solving some kind of cosmic mystery to help people trapped by rubble from an earthquake. 5 - A long day's journey into some sort of mystic realm. 4 - The mystery felt a little too cosmic woowoo. I mean, if she's supposed to save the world, and some of them need her to do that, why not just tell her whatever the hell it is she's supposed to know? - 3 Lots of tough talk but not a lot of actual toughness. ![]() ![]() 2 Too much talking about a mystery and not enough actual information, in ways that felt driven more by the need to have secrets than by the need of characters to keep secrets. ![]() Fragments of sentences, repeated, dramatically. This did not really work for me, despite an interesting premise (living demonic tattoos that can separate from the body together, they fight demons, but also, they are demons), interesting approach (the book felt like it was really starting in media res of an ordinary paranormal romance arc) and a lot of things that I ordinarily like: female protagonist, maternal line, relative lack of unnecessary romantic tension, swords (eventually). ![]()
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