paulgoatallen wrote:
ThirstyFlea wrote:
I read this one right away- I loved the first book so much! Although to be honest, I was a little lost at first with this second installment, like I needed a refresher of the first book...
I would love to hear everyone's thoughts!!
Excellent comment, Thirsty – I should get to this one next week and I'll post my thoughts. What was your final assessment – mediocre, very good, great....
I would go with "very good" on this one, but maybe it was because I was not remembering enough from the first? I'm terrible at putting my thoughts together, so please bear with me!
I didn't really feel connected to her husband Lex (he just seemed like a jealous a-hole to me), and Zachary Harrison was not very prominent in the story, despite Cat trying to break from him in the first part of the book. After that... not so much. Or at least I feel like he was kind of pushed aside as a background character. I really wanted to see more of him and his changing relationship with Cat. I also missed Cat's faerie cousin Portia- she just wasn't around much. When she was, it was great, but I missed her too.
I did like the development of Zach's banished faerie uncle (forgot his name!), Lex's sister, and the escort to hell (forgot her name too). Those were great additions to the cast of characters! Oh and I loved learniing about the hell world here- very cool.
The dragons vs. helicopters? Um, didn't really like that scenario too much. And when Cat & Lex were being challenged on their positions as Titania and Oberon, it just seemed too easily resolved and like an undeveloped story line.
I don't know- I think I just felt like there was so much more in the first one- it felt like 3 books in one to me. This one just felt like one, and feeling like I was missing something. Not as much happened in this one, I guess, it just felt anti-climactic to me, and just not as developed.
Yet despite all my negative comments, I did like it! It just didn't feel as substantial to me as the first...
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Here's another sequel that I've been waiting a while for. Last year, Robyn Bachar released Blood, Smoke and Mirrors, a debut novel that I went into with absolutely no expectations and came away with very much impressed. (The link to my review is below.)
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