Julia
*4.5
Really enjoyed the book, but I thought the main characters reaction to things were a little off.
Spoilerwhen he finds out that Wynne is Death he acusses her of killing people and run away from her. And it doesn't make any sense to me, it is obvious that she is just leading the soul to the afterlife. Also I found that in the end he went through not accepting being Death to being ok with it really quickly
This book was disapointing in many aspects, I was expecting a cozy mystery with a cat that helps the main character solve the case. And technically we got that, but this book was not cozy enough and the cat participation let a lot to be desired.
In this book there is no point of view of the cat, and since the main character has no experience in dealling with cats his responses to the cat actions were annoying, even though I have read books with characters that are interacting with cats for the first time and liked them, in this one I was left annoyed and disspaointed.
I will not continue with this series.
3.5This was a reread. I knew that Artemis was sick, but it shocked me how serious it felt in the beggining of the book.The thing I didn't like about the book was the antagonistSPOILERS*
In the end of the book, the villain is “redeemed”, because he decided to go with Leonor and not explode the hospital.
First, I don't think what Tornabol feels for her is love, but instead it is obsession.
Second, he forced her to stay with him by brainwashing her. So basically kidnapping.
And for some reason, nobody mentions how their relationship is not healthy at all.
4.5*
I really liked this first book. We follow multiple points of view, so in the beginning there are parts where we don't know who is the character that is the point of the view.
There were two things that frustated me. The first one was keeping from us what the Erica and Patrik discovered, one example of this was when Erica redialled a number to discover who the last call was made to. And she is surprised to who the voicemail belongs to, but we don't learn who it is until later in the book.
The second thing, was the “romance”, which I didn't feel like was a romance at all. Erica and Patrik have two dinners and didn't talk for very long and then they have a lot of sex (not explicit) and then suddenly, it is like they feel like they were made to be and they feel perfect for each other. I though it was very rushed and forced, like she wanted to settle then as a couple in the first book.
There were two main things that I didn???t like about the book, almost everyone was a bastard (some a result of rape and others of consensual sex). And that all female characters that had a more prominent role (not counting child and older women) got pregnant or took permanent measures to avoid one, while all the others, even the ones in fire guards, were just named or had a line or two in the whole book.
I don???t know if this was intentional or not, but this book showed in the characters that got pregnant a reflex of how many women get pregnant today. One of the characters doesn???t like taking the preventive herbs and believes that this is something that will not happen to her, while the other doesn???t have access to the herbs and is ashamed to ask for help.
This is the first book in a mystery series. If you are looking for a good mystery, this is not the book for you. The crime was interesting, but the solution was bleh (I think I would have preferred no solution to the one that was given). This book focus on the main character, his non-existent dating and relationship skills (both romantic and familiar), his drinking habits and anger. I can???t think a single positive trait of this character. There were other detectives, but they all had as much personality as a stone. I only gave this book 2 stars because it was a look in the reality of Sweden.
This was my first cozy mystery book. This was a light and fun reading experience.
The one thing that I really didn???t like was the ???love triangle??? between Katie, Steve and Declan, not that anything besides a kiss happened. But I really didn???t like Steve and how he kept trying to go out with Katie, even when it was clear that she wasn???t comfortably around him (specially in the beginning). And Katie didn???t say outright to him that she wasn???t interested.
I liked how she didn???t believe from the beginning that magic was real and that only to the end of the book she truly believed in it and what she could do.
Tem uma rela????o entre uma professora e um aluno de ensino m??dio. Ele ?? tecnicamente um adulto e ela uma professora jovem, mas nope. Me recuso a ler isso
Read 456 pages of 575.
I just can't be bothered to finish this book, I just don't care about the characters and their dramas. This book is just to long and could have half of the pages and tell the same history.