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Death's Rival (Jane Yellowrock, #5)
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bookshelves: urban-fantasy
Sep 17, 2012
bookshelves: urban-fantasy
Read 2 times. Last read October 28, 2012 to October 30, 2012.
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.
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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September 17, 2012
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October 28, 2012
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Oct 31, 2012 03:31AM
Is this a series I should be reading?
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Doll Noa wrote: "Is this a series I should be reading?"It's pure UF and it's really quite good. There are things about it that will remind you of Anita Blake, at least parts of Anita Blake, but not entirely. I am finding the romantic elements frustrating but not enough to make me lose interest yet. The world is good and the characters are interesting - flawed in ways that are complex enough to not make you want to smack them and tell them to grow up, and yet not so horribly broken that you feel swamped with over-done angst, either.
Jane's a good character, very strong and independent - and not prone to drag hanging onto misconceptions out for decades - she learns quickly. She's just a little stupid when it comes to tube steak. Not so stupid that you can't stand her but enough to remind you that she spent her entire youth alone in the wild buried in the consciousness of a puma and subsequently in an orphanage and never had any roll models of healthy relationships to draw expectations from.
