Ratings29
Average rating3.6
No lo odié tanto como pensaba.
Mi problema con este libro es el mismo que tenía antes de empezar a leerlo, y es la edad de Dani. Apenas que se pierda en Faery por 5 años, no sé como esto puede terminar bien.
En cuanto a los demás personajes: Ryodan no me provoca nada y odié a Christian. Por otro lado Dancer si despertó mi interés.
Let me just get my irk out of the way. The way Dani is written is highly irritating: I've had my fill of “dude,” “I seen,” “all the sudden,” and the like. As a middle-aged word nerd, I couldn't ignore it.
But my goodness is this kid lovable, equally because of her brash exterior and despite it. There's really a lot to like here and it's a great story.
The grown, immortal men taken with a 14yo are gross in their state of smit, but are otherwise really fascinating characters: Christian's slow transition to full Unseelie prince and Ryodan's semblance of humanity. On the human side, Dancer is as adorable as Dani (can be) and the two of them are adorable together. There is a grand, climactic showdown with multiple big bads at the end, and I enjoyed this one the most so far; it's action-packed, really intense, and immensely gratifying. Yes, yes, Dani and Mac's relationship doesn't really get touched this time around. This would be really problematic, were there no more books in the series. Thankfully, there are, and I'm off to read the next one right now.
2.5 stars.
Thank God, it's over!
I didn't have great expectations for this book, but it really disappointed me.
Ok, let's try writing a valid review.
sigh
The plot would be nice and enjoyable if not overshadowed by the characters and their relationship.
The book is set in Dublin, of course, and it occurs that some spots of the city are deadly frozen and our characters want to investigate the cause, the “modus operandi”, the criteria and why.
I'd say: “great! what a good idea to come back to Dublin!”, but here are the problems.
SPOILER ALERT!
1. Dani: a 14-year-old girl whose speaking consists of repeated “dude”, “feck/fecking”, “i am the Mega/the superhero”. I CAN'T stand her. I tried, she improved a little bit, but eventually I managed I don't stand her.
2. Ryodan: if he is more faster than Dani, more experienced than her, is everything more than her, WHY did he hire her for the investigation? The author seems not give a valid explanation for this. And why did he take also Jo under a fake contract? Just to have a beautiful waitress in his club and have sex with her -just with a nod-?
3. Three adult men that clearly have a kind of love interest in Dani! Ryodan, Christian and Dancer
WTF is this S**T?
I wanted to know about the investigation, about hidden information, not a “love-square” T.T
4. NOT contextualized sex scenes, such as the ones between Ryo and Jo, just to put sex however. It's not for me. Now I understand all those romance chicks who only care of Dani's HEA. I don't care. SHE IS 14, HELLOOOO!
5. The chapters from Kat's POV and the fact that in order to repay one of Ryodan's favors, he hires Kat's boyfriend as a waiter (he has to work almost naked!!! Whaaaat?!). What kind of repayment is that?
And why do we have to read so many boring chapters about Kat (casual sex is in it, of course!). Once we are told that Cruce tries corrupting her over and over, there's nothing more to say.
I just hope that Burned will be better, because for now I lost my interest in reading it.
This was an excellent book! I like Dani being fleshed out even more and having a better look at her thoughts. I could not believe the ending. WTF is Mac doing with pointing a spear at Dani? What has got her all pissed off even more than usual?