My last post was a rant on the whole "trilogy" and overall "series" mentality of modern authors. Now, I'm going to start reviewing the recent ebooks I've been reading, almost exclusively from the perspective of whether I view them as stand-alone adventures or not. So, read below if you care.
The first books of two "In Her Name" trilogies by Michael R. Hicks
were good engaging stories, but not complete. They interested me enough
that if I could find the rest of the trilogies at a library, I would
read them. I even tried the interlibrary loan deal at our local
library. But there's no way I'm going to buy the books, because they
aren't stand-alone.
I also downloaded "Paranormal 13
(13 free ebooks featuring witches, vampires, werewolves, mermaids,
psychics, Loki, time travel, and more!)". Here's my review of what I've
read of it so far. It's not generally good.
The first
3 books were all female lead characters acting in some sort of romance
fashion. I don't have a problem with female lead characters, but I
don't read romance novels. If you do, have fun. But the first one,
"Darkangle (Witches of Cleopatra Hill Book 1)", spent the entire book
talking about this chick's future "consort" and making more than enough
snide remarks about avoiding one particular evil family that you knew
from the beginning that's where the consort was coming from. So to put
it in context, the entire book is the small portion of the cinderella
story where the prince is trying shoes on the various women. Then he
finds out he is prejudiced against the one that it fits, and it's "by
the next book please.".
The second book, "Twin Souls
(Nevermore Book 1)" is all about a girl falling in love with a sexy
vampire guy, overcoming one tiny obstacle while enlightening us not one
whit over major obstacles in the story, and then asking us to buy the
next book.
The third book, "The Girl (Guardians Book
1)" is an interesting twist on the heaven/hell, angel/demon, creation
myth stories. But it is still just a story of improper love between an
angel and mortal, the obstacles they take a small step toward
overcoming, and buy the next book.
More reviews on the way in the next post (but at least you won't have to pay for it).
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