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Honestly I don't read a lot of books about witches and magicks~ and whatnot, that whole sub-genre doesn't interest me much at all, but because I like the author I made the leap into her witchy novels a while back. As much as I usually enjoy Kelley Armstrong's books this is probably my least favourite. I can't exactly put my finger on what it is about it I don't like, I just know that at some point before I was halfway through it started to feel like a chore. The premise is fine, and I was aware of events prior to this novel regarding Eve and Savannah having read other -- better -- books, so that wasn't a problem for me. I've read the other Paige novels too, and I like her and Lucas as characters so they definitely perked up the parts of the story they were involved in, the connections between the character really were the saving grace in this story to me, because I felt that while it was a neat and simplistic idea and needed to be given that the setting is largely in the fictional afterlife of the Otherworld series it got very convoluted somehow, somewhere. All the partners of the Nix blurred together for me after a point, I couldn't recall who was who and who had done what and maybe that was just because my enthusiasm had waned catastrophically by that point but I definitely had a hard time slogging through some of the talky parts. There were a couple of genuinely spooky parts however, I was reading one of them while I was in bed at one point and I really did have chills going up my spine but aside from that there was a lot of talking and teleporting around and... I just couldn't get into it, my brain disconnected from what was going on and I digested what was happening on the page without really getting sucked in. Really, the only thing I liked a lot was Jamie's cameo. Actually it's a pretty big role in the story and when it ended I wanted to know more about her and how she was doing and what Jeremy was going to say when he found out what had happened. I actually think that of all the protagonists of Armstrong's novels Eve doesn't match up; Elena, Jamie, Hope and Even Robyn are much more dynamic and charismatic to me. I would like to read a novel about Eve when she was alive, I want to know about some of these awful things she's done, and what happened when she split with the Coven. I think I'd like her alive much more than I like her as a ghost. Sadly, I don't even have much to say about it really. I just ploughed through it so that I could get to the next book on my pile waiting to be read. Unlike some of Armstrong's other books that I will likely re-read in the future, this one will be a onetime deal.

2020-08-24 17:38