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Minion (A Vampire Huntress Legend) |
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Rebemdee (USA: CA) (2006/08/14):
It took me awhile to finish this. It has everything...except a decent plot. The cliches are fast and furious, with a molten lava lake, circles of hell, hybrid vampires, a sassy vampire slayer, and her forbidden love interest. It shamelessly rips off other vampire novels and Buffy. The writing is atrocious. There are glimpses of the U of Penn educated writer, i.e. her uneducated young huntress using terms like "carte blanche," and then the "from da hood" writing comes out, with silly conjugations such as, "Ima," as in, "Ima gonna kick some ass." I found the writing painful. It's not hip, it is ridiculous. The black and white characters change speech patterns as easily as clothes; I'm not sure who was a brother and who was a poseur. But then again, I don't care. This novel is dreadfully bad, both in plot and writing. I'd rather have my throat ripped out than read this author's work again, which is unfortunate, as I stupidly got the second in the series before reading the first. Do I dare read the second book, hoping it's better than the first? Probably not.
SimplyBkuz (USA: CA) (2008/09/14):
I agree with some other reviews of this book. It isn't great. Basically, it's a primer for the other books in the series. I found it a little hard to get through, although I will say it was worth reading. It has a cliffhanger ending which makes you really want to read the second book, The Awakening, which is a really good read. I'm currently on the third book in the series and now I am glad that I put the time into reading this first book.
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