(Blood & Magic, #1)
by Danielle Annett
Publication date: February 18th, 2018
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy
SYNOPSIS:
Blood is going to spill …
I just hope it won’t be mine.
After two weeks of searching, I found the seven-year-old I’d been hired to find too late. His body broken and discarded. Dead.
My boss doesn’t want me to hunt down his killers. It’s too dangerous.
But the Pacific Northwest Pack steps in, hiring me to bring the bastards to justice.
Turns out the kid was half shifter. And shifters don’t abandon their own.
In a search that takes me through the maze of shifter hierarchy and the depths of the paranormal underworld, these killers underestimate how determined I am to mete out their punishment.
Vigilante justice is the only kind these people understand.
Yes, blood will spill. And I’m determined it will be theirs.
REVIEW:
I just hope it won’t be mine.
After two weeks of searching, I found the seven-year-old I’d been hired to find too late. His body broken and discarded. Dead.
My boss doesn’t want me to hunt down his killers. It’s too dangerous.
But the Pacific Northwest Pack steps in, hiring me to bring the bastards to justice.
Turns out the kid was half shifter. And shifters don’t abandon their own.
In a search that takes me through the maze of shifter hierarchy and the depths of the paranormal underworld, these killers underestimate how determined I am to mete out their punishment.
Vigilante justice is the only kind these people understand.
Yes, blood will spill. And I’m determined it will be theirs.
REVIEW:
This book wasn’t awful… it just
wasn’t very good. The general idea
behind the story was a good one; the premise drawing me in enough to request
the book in the first place. But the
follow through just wasn’t there. Here
is this entire world completely different from ours, with all of these
different fantastical creatures, various groups, power structures, etc; and yet
it’s all just given a cursory explanation, with no real world-building or
explanation happening. There was a ton
repetition of some ideas, to the point of it being annoying; and blatant
contradiction of others.
Aria’s character was a
disaster. Here she was supposed to be
this tough person working as a mercenary, and she couldn’t even take care of
herself. And her detective skills suck;
her supposed best friend James is basically an enforcer for the mob, and she’s
the only person in the entire city who doesn’t know it. The most ridiculous aspect though was the
fact that she is supposed to be a pyrokinetic in hiding that somehow nobody
knows about; and yet she constantly overheating herself, warming up rooms, even
lighting things on fire.
None of the secondary
characters were any better, and her expressed associations with most of them
just didn’t come across as real.
Supposedly Aria’s boss Mike is like a father figure to her, but there’s
not really any show of this, just tell; which does not make it feel all that
genuine. Her relationship with James isn’t
much better, although he is probably the most fleshed out character in the
entire book. And Inarus, while he’s
meant to be a mystery, is more of a cipher, a fact which makes him almost not
worth noticing.
There were apparently a ton of different
things going on that we’re unaware of, and lots of plot building that seemed to
really be going somewhere, and then… didn’t.
The story just kind of ends, not on a cliffhanger per say, but with nothing
actually resolved. I was left wondering
what had happened, what in the heck was going on, and why I should care.
It appears that there are three
other volumes in this series, so perhaps they eventually give us some answers,
but I don’t know that I could be persuaded to care enough to read them.
~
I received an eBook copy of this title free from Xpresso Book Tours,
and have willingly provided an honest review.
and have willingly provided an honest review.
New and old covers of "Cursed by Fire (Blood & Magic, #1)" by Danielle Annett.
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