It had a few chuckle out loud moments but overall I thought the reunion scene, which is also shown in the series about Michael, was a bit anticlimactiIt had a few chuckle out loud moments but overall I thought the reunion scene, which is also shown in the series about Michael, was a bit anticlimactic and... immature.
Overall kinda fun, but certainly not the end of the series.
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It had a few chuckle out loud moments but overall I thought the reunion scene, which is also shown in the series about Michael, was a bit anticlimactic and... immature.
Overall kinda fun, but certainly not the end of the series....more
Better. Or I'm getting invested in the characters, but I do think it was better than its predecessors.
I have to admit that there is so much 3.5 stars
Better. Or I'm getting invested in the characters, but I do think it was better than its predecessors.
I have to admit that there is so much action in these that I lose my attention to the story during the action and end up missing things and have to go back to see what I missed.
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3.5 stars
Better. Or I'm getting invested in the characters, but I do think it was better than its predecessors.
I have to admit that there is so much action in these that I lose my attention to the story during the action and end up missing things and have to go back to see what I missed....more
I would have given this four stars as a rate-up from about 3.75, in spite of the mostly-improper use of "nauseous" where "nauseated" was best. It's a I would have given this four stars as a rate-up from about 3.75, in spite of the mostly-improper use of "nauseous" where "nauseated" was best. It's a pet peeve that is so often done incorrectly that the incorrect way has become correct due to language slippage/evolution; but it's enough to take me out of a story. Being in a male teen's head instead of the female teen's head this time around gave us more relationship angst than I expected, but ok. It was nice to get a second go-round of a teen finding out that dragons are real and the world isn't how they've been told. Tomas is a good, if young, character. Again with this installation of this series the author has made a believably young adult main character (much to my personal chagrin).
I rated down because the end is not an ending, it's just a shitty place to stop the story that feels a lot like a contrived hook to sell the next book. I always rate down for those as I don't appreciate marketing manipulation in a thing I have purchased. Instead of my hearing a "thank you for your patronage" I hear "buy the next one or fuck off." It seems an incongruous way to attract more business. I used to give single stars for them. Perhaps I have mellowed over time. I will never like non-consensual titillation and I am never titillated into spending money. I already bought the third audiobook or I probably would have stopped here because of that ending.
Still hoping to see YA characters walk into adulthood. The story is great but I wonder if she's got an adult (not necessarily sexual but simply older characters) version.
I should probably stop trying with YA.
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I would have given this four stars as a rate-up from about 3.75, in spite of the mostly-improper use of "nauseous" where "nauseated" was best. It's a pet peeve that is so often done incorrectly that the incorrect way has become correct due to language slippage/evolution; but it's enough to take me out of a story. Being in a male teen's head instead of the female teen's head this time around gave us more relationship angst than I expected, but ok. It was nice to get a second go-round of a teen finding out that dragons are real and the world isn't how they've been told. Tomas is a good, if young, character. Again with this installation of this series the author has made a believably young adult main character (much to my personal chagrin).
I rated down because the end is not an ending, it's just a shitty place to stop the story that feels a lot like a contrived hook to sell the next book. I always rate down for those as I don't appreciate marketing manipulation in a thing I have purchased. Instead of my hearing a "thank you for your patronage" I hear "buy the next one or fuck off." It seems an incongruous way to attract more business. I used to give single stars for them. Perhaps I have mellowed over time. I will never like non-consensual titillation and I am never titillated into spending money. I already bought the third audiobook or I probably would have stopped here because of that ending.
Still hoping to see YA characters walk into adulthood. The story is great but I wonder if she's got an adult (not necessarily sexual but simply older characters) version.
This is a 3+ with potential for me. Full disclosure - I am not a huge fan of YA and the MC in this is a very believable young adult. If you like spendThis is a 3+ with potential for me. Full disclosure - I am not a huge fan of YA and the MC in this is a very believable young adult. If you like spending your time in the head of a smarter-than-average teenager then you may enjoy that more than I as this is a competently executed trope in this instance.
I have heard a lot of comparison's with McCaffrey's Pern and, while I think this is a good dragon story in its own right, it doesn't hit my radar like Pern. But I did enjoy it enough to see how it progresses and how the MCs mature. I must confess a lifelong fascination with the notion of dragon riding and telepathic/empathic bonds with dragons so I'm kinda the target market, if not for the YA bit. Perhaps she will mature quickly. :) In a perfect world.
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This is a 3+ with potential for me. Full disclosure - I am not a huge fan of YA and the MC in this is a very believable young adult. If you like spending your time in the head of a smarter-than-average teenager then you may enjoy that more than I as this is a competently executed trope in this instance.
I have heard a lot of comparison's with McCaffrey's Pern and, while I think this is a good dragon story in its own right, it doesn't hit my radar like Pern. But I did enjoy it enough to see how it progresses and how the MCs mature. I must confess a lifelong fascination with the notion of dragon riding and telepathic/empathic bonds with dragons so I'm kinda the target market, if not for the YA bit. Perhaps she will mature quickly. :) In a perfect world....more
There was too much exposition in this book to keep me engaged, until the last 10% or so of the story when the characters were allowed2.5 to 2.75 stars
There was too much exposition in this book to keep me engaged, until the last 10% or so of the story when the characters were allowed to have more than a line or two of dialog.
It's an interesting premise, the living gods and how they interact with the populations they claim. I wasn't crazy about the delivery, though.
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2.5 to 2.75 stars
There was too much exposition in this book to keep me engaged, until the last 10% or so of the story when the characters were allowed to have more than a line or two of dialog.
It's an interesting premise, the living gods and how they interact with the populations they claim. I wasn't crazy about the delivery, though....more
I really like this series. They are too long to be called novellas and a bit shorter than the average current UF series novel, but they go dow4+ stars
I really like this series. They are too long to be called novellas and a bit shorter than the average current UF series novel, but they go down as quickly as novellas.
While Discordia does have a touch of the "special snowflake" trope happening, it's framed in such a way that it's not intolerable or intrusive. It's also another one of the things that is slowly being revealed as the series goes on. One of the things that I love about the series is that Cordi is always growing and learning, there is always character growth for herself and many of the secondary recurring characters.
The stories are engaging, fast paced, and there is just enough romance and smexy to know that it's there but not so much to wonder if this is actually a romance rather than an urban fantasy.
This addition to the series was no exception to the previous ones. I look forward to these books. I consider the series one of my finds of the year.
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4+ stars
I really like this series. They are too long to be called novellas and a bit shorter than the average current UF series novel, but they go down as quickly as novellas.
While Discordia does have a touch of the "special snowflake" trope happening, it's framed in such a way that it's not intolerable or intrusive. It's also another one of the things that is slowly being revealed as the series goes on. One of the things that I love about the series is that Cordi is always growing and learning, there is always character growth for herself and many of the secondary recurring characters.
The stories are engaging, fast paced, and there is just enough romance and smexy to know that it's there but not so much to wonder if this is actually a romance rather than an urban fantasy.
This addition to the series was no exception to the previous ones. I look forward to these books. I consider the series one of my finds of the year....more
Strong 4 to 4.5 stars. There was a lot of personal growth for Jane in this installment, which was my biggest complaint with the last one. She's rediscStrong 4 to 4.5 stars. There was a lot of personal growth for Jane in this installment, which was my biggest complaint with the last one. She's rediscovering who she is and how that relates to the world. I liked that a lot.
I'm getting pretty tired of her being involved with impossible guys, though. This book added a new one to the mix and brought the other two back (when I thought one of the other two was gone). Although I've always been a big Bruiser fan and this book had lots of him in it I can't say that I enjoyed his interaction that much. It's abundantly obvious that he can't ever make her his priority and I'd like to see Jane have someone in her life that puts her first. She's never had that and deserves it. Leo and Bruiser and Katie pissed me off enough to want them all staked.
I like the new guy well enough but feel pretty neutral about him over all. We'll see how it develops. I found his younger brother to be a more interesting character.
The end left me wondering if the series was going to go in a new direction, as the entire book seemed to be moving towards, of if it was going to slide back into the same format-becoming-formula of all the previous books.
Either way, I enjoyed this book a great deal. Quite possibly the best in the entire series so far.
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Strong 4 to 4.5 stars. There was a lot of personal growth for Jane in this installment, which was my biggest complaint with the last one. She's rediscovering who she is and how that relates to the world. I liked that a lot.
I'm getting pretty tired of her being involved with impossible guys, though. This book added a new one to the mix and brought the other two back (when I thought one of the other two was gone). Although I've always been a big Bruiser fan and this book had lots of him in it I can't say that I enjoyed his interaction that much. It's abundantly obvious that he can't ever make her his priority and I'd like to see Jane have someone in her life that puts her first. She's never had that and deserves it. Leo and Bruiser and Katie pissed me off enough to want them all staked.
I like the new guy well enough but feel pretty neutral about him over all. We'll see how it develops. I found his younger brother to be a more interesting character.
The end left me wondering if the series was going to go in a new direction, as the entire book seemed to be moving towards, of if it was going to slide back into the same format-becoming-formula of all the previous books.
Either way, I enjoyed this book a great deal. Quite possibly the best in the entire series so far....more
4 short, 3 new. A nice addition to the series. One of the shorts is from Beast's POV from the hunger times. The writing was a little disjointed but it4 short, 3 new. A nice addition to the series. One of the shorts is from Beast's POV from the hunger times. The writing was a little disjointed but it was very short and conveyed beasts' thinking adequately.
Two of the shorts were from Molly's perspective and it was nice to get to know her better. I think it will fatten the Jane stories for me.
The last short was from Jane's POV, occurring between books 4 & 5. It's nice to see Jane find another way.
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4 short, 3 new. A nice addition to the series. One of the shorts is from Beast's POV from the hunger times. The writing was a little disjointed but it was very short and conveyed beasts' thinking adequately.
Two of the shorts were from Molly's perspective and it was nice to get to know her better. I think it will fatten the Jane stories for me.
The last short was from Jane's POV, occurring between books 4 & 5. It's nice to see Jane find another way....more
I can't say that I hated this one but when I heard the narrator say "Epilogue" my thought was "finally."
I think Cherryh is building to expanding the3+
I can't say that I hated this one but when I heard the narrator say "Epilogue" my thought was "finally."
I think Cherryh is building to expanding the world considerably, but the world building and slice of life stuff, which she's usually exceptionally good at, isn't as engrossing as usual for me. My life is upside down at the moment, so it's entirely possible it's me.
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I can't say that I hated this one but when I heard the narrator say "Epilogue" my thought was "finally."
I think Cherryh is building to expanding the world considerably, but the world building and slice of life stuff, which she's usually exceptionally good at, isn't as engrossing as usual for me. My life is upside down at the moment, so it's entirely possible it's me....more
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