Daniel Potter
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I expected an urban fantasy story with a somewhat well-defined magic system and a story about the MC being drawn into fae affairs. Which is technically what the book is about.
But what I actually got instead is a drug trip induced by strong hallucinogens that fits best into the "Magical Realism" genre if anything.
It's a weird amalgamation of urban fantasy where Fae start to return to the human realm setup with loose bits of classic body horror sprinkled in and real-life anime human-animal hybrids like catgirls even including general online otaku culture. Even the wish-fulfillment aspect of that genre is somehow present but falls strangely flat because it doesn't fit into the story of a straight FMC at all. It instead shows the sexy cat girls to the book audience which comes across very weirdly. It also borrows a lot from Japanese mythology and mixes it with the traditional european Fae folklore as well as lots of random pop culture from all over the place. There are enough individual ideas in the first half of this book to fill an entire 4 book series.
Quite a few sections really read like an LSD trip gone wrong with no rhyme or reason. It's just this weird soup out of anything and everything with no real direction and no logical consistency to anything. It sways back and forth between your classic high-octane fast-paced urban fantasy and ponderous whimsical magic.
My biggest problem with all that is that none of this is my genre. It is a book that spectacularly misses its target audience with its presentation in terms of cover, genres, and blurb.
I am sure there is an audience that can appreciate this kind of story. It's not particularly badly written but it's chaos and not my kind of story at all.… (meer)
But what I actually got instead is a drug trip induced by strong hallucinogens that fits best into the "Magical Realism" genre if anything.
It's a weird amalgamation of urban fantasy where Fae start to return to the human realm setup with loose bits of classic body horror sprinkled in and real-life anime human-animal hybrids like catgirls even including general online otaku culture. Even the wish-fulfillment aspect of that genre is somehow present but falls strangely flat because it doesn't fit into the story of a straight FMC at all. It instead shows the sexy cat girls to the book audience which comes across very weirdly. It also borrows a lot from Japanese mythology and mixes it with the traditional european Fae folklore as well as lots of random pop culture from all over the place. There are enough individual ideas in the first half of this book to fill an entire 4 book series.
Quite a few sections really read like an LSD trip gone wrong with no rhyme or reason. It's just this weird soup out of anything and everything with no real direction and no logical consistency to anything. It sways back and forth between your classic high-octane fast-paced urban fantasy and ponderous whimsical magic.
My biggest problem with all that is that none of this is my genre. It is a book that spectacularly misses its target audience with its presentation in terms of cover, genres, and blurb.
I am sure there is an audience that can appreciate this kind of story. It's not particularly badly written but it's chaos and not my kind of story at all.… (meer)
My Thoughts:
This book picks up where the last one ended. And tells us how the story went after the fall out after our hero saved his town. I liked that, because I did wonder how the people of Grantsville is going to cope afterwards... the clean-up work of that cluster-fuck just seemed so daunting... because we are not talking about straightening out the life of a person or a few people. We're talking about a whole town! And I like the way the story panned out. So much so that now I am apprehensive about reading the next book in this series because then I might be disappointed! I guess I'll know soon enough if I am being silly about it or not.
Like the first book, I love this story! Champion of the underdogs! Iron-clad sense of right and wrong! And an HEA (happily ever after) ending!
I like the way Jonathan Waters reads Jet (the goat)'s lines with a bit of a wobble to his voice, mimicking that of a goat's, if goats could talk.
Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 5
Pace = (10 hrs & 17 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 5
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5… (meer)
This book picks up where the last one ended. And tells us how the story went after the fall out after our hero saved his town. I liked that, because I did wonder how the people of Grantsville is going to cope afterwards... the clean-up work of that cluster-fuck just seemed so daunting... because we are not talking about straightening out the life of a person or a few people. We're talking about a whole town! And I like the way the story panned out. So much so that now I am apprehensive about reading the next book in this series because then I might be disappointed! I guess I'll know soon enough if I am being silly about it or not.
Like the first book, I love this story! Champion of the underdogs! Iron-clad sense of right and wrong! And an HEA (happily ever after) ending!
I like the way Jonathan Waters reads Jet (the goat)'s lines with a bit of a wobble to his voice, mimicking that of a goat's, if goats could talk.
Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 5
Pace = (10 hrs & 17 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 5
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5… (meer)
My Thoughts:
Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 5
Pace = (10 hrs & 17 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 5
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5… (meer)
I went into this book with a bit of an apprehension because it started in a high note. I was sure that it would only go downhill from there! It is probably going downhill, but not with this book just yet. And it probably is going to end up with our group of heroes poor and destitute again because they are trying to dress that scenario up as a win. However it still remains to be seen in the future books.
I wondered what happened to Alice and Grace... I am so glad to see them prospering and Grace maturing! And, yeah, my heart goes out to Carey! Poor thing!!
Book 4 and I am fast becoming a die-hard fan of this series! Couldn't wait to read the next book in the series!!
Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Writing Style = 4
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 5
Pace = (10 hrs & 17 mins listening time)
Plot = 4
Narration = 5
Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5… (meer)
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I was distracted by several punctuation errors and typos throughout, but the story itself is exactly what I was looking for when I picked it up.… (meer)