Donna Smith
I'm re-reading the series and enjoying it more than any other urban fantasy series I've come across in the past year or so. I like the growth in the main characters, and the loyalty among comrades. The world-building is definitely complex enough to handle all the (equally entertaining) spin-off series.
After attempting and dropping half a dozen new urban fantasy series, here's one of many things that made me come back and re-read this one: when people get into fights in Annette Marie's books, you can tell that the author has done her time on a tae kwon do floor (or boxing or whatever) and knows what it feels like to take a punch, to strategize in a fight, to be exhausted after less than a minute. I'm tired of people writing fight scenes who don't know what it feels like to fight. It's getting to be a deal breaker when I try out a new author.
I'm re-reading the series and enjoying it more than any other urban fantasy series I've come across in the past year or so. I like the growth in the main characters, and the loyalty among comrades. The world-building is definitely complex enough to handle all the (equally entertaining) spin-off series.
After attempting and dropping half a dozen new urban fantasy series, here's one of many things that made me come back and re-read this one: when people get into fights in Annette Marie's books, you can tell that the author has done her time on a tae kwon do floor (or boxing or whatever) and knows what it feels like to take a punch, to strategize in a fight, to be exhausted after less than a minute. I'm tired of people writing fight scenes who don't know what it feels like to fight. It's getting to be a deal breaker when I try out a new author.
Updated a reading goal:
Read 10 books by December 30, 2024
Progress so far: 200 / 10 2000%
Too Far Gone
Ehh...I liked the characters, but this was a draft that needed more editing for continuity issues (had they met only once before, or...twice because they went to that restaurant with her uncle?!?) and to make the "marriage of convenience" trope believable. But, the turtle research was interesting, and I like other stuff this author has written.
Ehh...I liked the characters, but this was a draft that needed more editing for continuity issues (had they met only once before, or...twice because they went to that restaurant with her uncle?!?) and to make the "marriage of convenience" trope believable. But, the turtle research was interesting, and I like other stuff this author has written.
