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Bezig met laden... Trailer Park Faedoor Lilith Saintcrow
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I liked the flowery writing style, but found the plot boring and a struggle to maintain interest to finish. I kept wondering if this was a spinoff from a series I'm not familiar with, since there was so much assumption of "of course you already know how abilities work in this world." But I never got even remotely interested enough to check if it actually is a spinoff from something else. Didn't find myself caring about Gallow, or any seelie or unseelie characters. I haven't read anything else from this author, and now I'm not sure I ever will, it was such a grind to finish reading - and this isn't a long book. This is a "goodreads" 2 star, which means it's okay/meh. This is not an "amazon" 2 star, which means it didn't quite make it as firewood. I'm having a bad streak apparently, so maybe I shouldn't even bother to review this, but here goes. I love 2 of Saintcrow's other series: Dante Valentine and Jill Kismet. I also enjoyed her Strange Angels YA/teen series. The world building is first class, the characters are gritty, and the stories themselves are overall unpredictable and therefore they are page turners. Saintcrow has a very flowy, wordy style which can be a bit much, as her characters repeat themselves in new and different ways every chapter or so but her grasp of language keeps it very readable. I will admit that all of the above fell apart for me in this book. I love fairies. I thought at first maybe I was just expecting too much, but I think in the end this story just had nothing new to offer. The fairies themselves are nothing new. They are exactly like all the fairies you ever read. There is the Seelie court, the Unseelie court and the free fae. There are pixies and brownies and high ladies exactly like every other unimaginative fairy collection. There is really no new take on any of them, which is very unlike Saintcrow. It felt as though she stumbled upon them, decided they were all weird enough and kept them. That's fine, I'm just admittedly bored with the regular, plain old fairies and you have to back it up with a story that makes it worth it to me to read the exact same creature stereotypes. I didn't find that here. The world building, as you would expect with the characters being incredibly recognizable, is based on all the usual fairy tropes. Glamours, dawn, a little bit of magic. The fairy courts look like exactly what you'd expect if you know anything about the Seelie and Unseelie. Like I said, I think maybe I was expecting too much. I think the lack of the world as a character is what really ruined it for me. Gallow and Ragged's powers are at least interesting but they were the rare glow in a sea of dullness. The story itself just didn't do it for me at all and I think this is what really dragged everything down for me. I'm going to share a few spoilers to explain how this book hit all three tropes I hate. I don't think any of them are that spoilery as I guessed all three within pages of meeting each of the three characters they involved. That tore away the last shreds of newness and discovery this book might have created for me. Let's be upfront. This story does not read like Urban Fantasy. This book is a Paranormal Romance trying to be an UF. Not my cup of tea. I would have picked it up anyway assuming Saintcrow could pull it off, as I have liked her other romances in the series I would consider actual UF. This is not the case from my point of view. While I feel like this story is striving to be UF and hits a few of the marks, it really doesn't manage to pull itself into UF territory. It feels like 90% of the drama is Ragged and Gallow falling all over each other cause they lurve each other and can't have each other. Alright, finally spoilers. Trope #2, and man I hate this one so much. Trope #3: I honestly to this point can't even remember what it is. It's all just balled up into "did not like" in my head and I can come up with about 3 other romance or writing tropes I do not enjoy from within these pages. I think this one was So, take away: If you like PNR, if you like Saintcrow's wordiness walking you in circles, if you enjoy romance tropes, if you are not bored with the same old fairies and nothing new in fairy world building you will probably like this book. It did not for one second live up to that awesome cover in my mind. That cover had me expecting a steam punky sort of battle royale. Instead that dude on the cover just sulks around after a woman who looks like his dead wife and gets in fights because she keeps running away and leaving him to die. This whole book can be summed up as "thought it would be my cuppa tea, definitely not my cuppa tea." I will not be coming back for book 2. It took me a month to finish this one. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with a new series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks. Jeremiah Gallow is just another construction worker, and that's the way he likes it. He's left his past behind, but some things cannot be erased. Like the tattoos on his arms that transform into a weapon, or that he was once closer to the Queen of Summer than any half-human should be. Now the half-sidhe all in Summer once feared is dragged back into the world of enchantment, danger, and fickle fae â?? by a woman who looks uncannily like his dead wife. Her name is Robin, and her secrets are more than enough to get them both killed. A plague has come, the fullborn-fae are dying, and the dark answer to Summer's Court is breaking loose. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I just realized -- several days after I finished this -- that I had Lilith Saintcrow mixed up in my head with Laurell K. Hamilton. And that's terribly unfair of me, since I really did love the Dante Valentine series so much. So, when reading this book, I was nervous for it to devolve into an all-out orgy sex scene, at which point I’d probably put it down. But it never did, and I enjoyed it. I do think it was overwritten to some degree -- the flowery language got distracting at times, rather than enhancing the scenery -- but I enjoyed it and the next book is already on my to-read list.
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