Lisbeth and Mikael are back to battle new villains with their SSDD energy.
I am going to look to Lisbeth on how I want to review this one:
“Isn’t thaLisbeth and Mikael are back to battle new villains with their SSDD energy.
I am going to look to Lisbeth on how I want to review this one:
“Isn’t that precisely what she loathes about people? Emotion-based decisions. Lack of logic.�
This series needs to stop out of respect for the original author and the characters he created. What it has become is a shadow of what it was. It is now flanderized characters thrown into a blender with generic villain stories, and a splash of current events like material to keep it relevant. I just can’t anymore. The book before this one I tried with all I had to be nice about, but this one did me in. I am all out of nice. My husband likes to preorder books for me, and I told him to pull this series from his list. Done.
“She has made her choice and will stick with it. Relationships are tiresome. She doesn’t know if she is even capable of feeling anything warmer than horniness. In any case, she has no intention of finding out.�
One star to a book that was the death blow to a “once upon a time� interesting series....more
Coriolanus Snow is young and driven to be the best he can be so that he can improve his family’s situation and restore their name to glory. When he isCoriolanus Snow is young and driven to be the best he can be so that he can improve his family’s situation and restore their name to glory. When he is assigned a mentor roll in the Hunger Games, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to accomplish this. What he does not foresee is the type of tribute he will be assigned and the impact they could have on his plans.
To be blunt, I found this addition to the series to be terrible and I would have been fine without it. I am not going to say I was super excited when I heard it existed, but I was interested. I thought it would be fun to dip into some backstory and revisit the thoughts and feelings I had while reading the other three books. What was not fun was the quality of the story and how it was told. It was poorly put together and centered around a character I had not a care for. The supporting characters were bland and offered nothing to counter the crappy lead. The only character worth tracking was the secondary and even she was mediocre.
The story did have potential to be better and I think that is what disappointed me the most. It had a rush job feel to it like the clock was ticking and a book had to be finished at a set time, regardless of quality. The first and middle parts were slower and more methodically written whereas the ending was rushed and read like random shit was thrown together to finish it. There is one moment that sticks out in my mind the most and I can honestly say it is what I thought about the whole time I wrote this review.
Two stars to a book that was better left unread. I know I have ended other reviews with this same line, but it speaks my truth efficiently....more
I can’t even put together the words I need to express how disgusted and disappointed I feel right now. What a freaking series killer. What a waste of I can’t even put together the words I need to express how disgusted and disappointed I feel right now. What a freaking series killer. What a waste of time.
I eagerly anticipated reading this book. I thought it would be a continuation of what I read in the first two, not necessarily in story but with the actual personality of the main character. WRONG. WRONG. WRONG. This isn’t even close to the same Bridget I bonded with and loved to read about as she dealt with her ever changing life. She became a complete and total joke and regressed in years instead of naturally and reasonably aging. That plus the introduction of new poorly developed characters completely killed any last bit of like I might have held on to.
All I want to stay about the story itself, is that it felt forced with bits and pieces of random funny glued together to form a mess of crap. I am just so beyond irritated with this book that I don’t want to waste another moment thinking about it. I just hope I am able to wash the bad taste out of my mouth before it spoils my memory of the first two. ...more
Either my memory of what Rice’s books are supposed to be like is flawed or this book is just awful. So long, so boring and so pointless. The only reasEither my memory of what Rice’s books are supposed to be like is flawed or this book is just awful. So long, so boring and so pointless. The only reason I stuck with it was because I have read and enjoyed so many of her books in the past. ...more
Another series I’m going to put to bed. I think what I want out of a read at this point in my life and what this book gave are on two different planesAnother series I’m going to put to bed. I think what I want out of a read at this point in my life and what this book gave are on two different planes. I just can’t with certain plot points that were used to get past obstacles in the story, which I won’t discuss here because they are spoilers and I am too lazy to separate them out. Let’s just say that when they happened, I instantly cringed and wanted to launch the book across the room.
CONCLUSION: This series went from something I thoroughly enjoyed to another run-of-the-mill-please-end-it-before-it-becomes-a-joke series for me. I honestly kept flashing back to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series and thinking to myself, “Hasn’t the concept of a band of magical brothers looking for love been done before?�...more
Useless, boring-ass details can kill a book and that’s the moral of the story with this read. Why anyone would need to know every last damn detail aboUseless, boring-ass details can kill a book and that’s the moral of the story with this read. Why anyone would need to know every last damn detail about each thread of fabric worn by a character that happens upon a page is beyond me. I guess clothing does make the vampire, or at least that’s the message being pounded repeatedly into the reader’s mind.
If excessive details was the frosting on the cake, then the dry crumbly center would be the poor mix of too many characters with too little plot. At first I was ecstatic to see all my old favorites waltzing back in, but then when it became page after page after page of it I quickly lost interest. Especially when I realized that what we were being built up to was about as transparent as plastic wrap panties.
Between the overkill on apparel descriptions and the slow and steady march of every character that every crossed the mind of the author, I found myself buried in information overload. I had that moment that most every reader dreads, the moment you realize you give zero fucks about what happens in the story. All you crave is the sweet release of a final page. It’s even worse when it’s a beloved series and you are left clutching the apparent walk-away book in your hands, knowing that those were the series� final death throes you just witnessed. (OR FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING SHOULD BE)
So you can say I had my cake and ate it too and then decided it was most definitely intended for someone else. I am officially done with this series. ...more
Another series ender for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the series up to this point and am quite disgusted by the lasting impression this book has left me wAnother series ender for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the series up to this point and am quite disgusted by the lasting impression this book has left me with. It’s not that I ever expect a story to go a certain way, because I love and prefer a story with a natural flow. I am completely accepting of life’s realities in a book: Not everyone gets their desired loved interest, not everyone gets to be the hero and not everyone gets to live to see the end. What I don’t like is when a story doesn’t respect itself, when something is changed or lost in the process and that precious flow is either interrupted or broken altogether. This book did exactly that for me and having the author’s other series fall flat at the same time means I am all out of second chances.
This book read like regurgitated bits of all the other previous books in the series. Picture a computer that has mated with a wood chipper. Now picturThis book read like regurgitated bits of all the other previous books in the series. Picture a computer that has mated with a wood chipper. Now picture a peon slowly feeding books 1 -21 into the chipper portion of it while clicking a RANDOMIZE key on the keyboard. VOILA! Instant book.
I knew things were on a slow and steady decline but this, this is the straw that broke the hobbit’s back (My husband’s pet name for me. He LOVES sleeping on the couch.) I managed to suffer through it until the last page, but have zero plans to read any future installments of this series. It’s sad really, because once upon a time I really did enjoy it.
Too many great books, not enough time to waste on duds....more
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