Greywalker
Ratings24
Average rating3.3
This book is very different from what I've read before. I enjoyed the different view of vampires, ghost and supernatural environments. It was a bit slow in parts but it was necessary for the story. Overall a very enjoyable read.
The world is interesting enough but the set up is clunky. Harper's response to the Grey (the in between area where supernatural creatures dwell) is overdone. I can understand freaking out about a supernatural world you didn't know existed, but for 70% of the book when you keep seeing and feeling the evidence. That's just willful and dumb ignorance, ecspecially when someone admits they're a vampire and Harper believes him yet, oh god nope the Grey can't exist. Not to mention she STILL refuses to accept her abilties with the Grey at the end of the book! Plus there's too much theory and information thrown around about the Grey's existence. It's over explained and I ended up skimming most of it. Harper doesn't seem to have a consistent personality either, and her sudden relationship with Will confuses me. The plot skips and Harper just flat out does the dumbest things when she was portrayed as a quick thinker on her feet. I want to know how she isn't dead from investigating human problems let alone the vampires she starts to help. The actual mechanics of the Grey are scattered at best. Sometimes it's just a place, but it seems like parts of it can be thrown around or drawn on to accomplish things. Not a series I will continue.
The concept and premise of this book are both of interest to me, and overall I enjoyed the story. But it definitely feels like a “set up the series” novel, which led to a few pacing issues, and there were times when word choices threw me out of the story.
Wow. Great, great first chapter. Had me hooked on the book within the first few paragraphs and really didn't let go.Solid, solid read. Action, little humor, dash of romance, and a really good crew of likeable characters.I had a couple of quibbles: There was one transition between chapters that involved a time jump, which (eventually) got enough explanation that I didn't feel shorted, but it didn't fit with the rest of the narrative style of the book. Too much of the book was Harper learning about the Grey–the world of magic/paranormal/etc., so it's hard to see what future installments would be like. Obviously, the series is pretty successful at this point, and this book makes it easy to see why, don't think I've felt this way about a debut UF book since [b:Rosemary and Rue 6294549 Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1) Seanan McGuire http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1308971694s/6294549.jpg 6478937].
Oh holy hell. I stuck with this book despite some seriously non-descript writing because I kept thinking, “this is an interesting premise. It has potential” but she just couldn't convince me of anything. The “grey world” was grey. Wow. Really. That's as descriptive as you can get. Fingers reaching into her chest were icy. That's it? C'mon... give me something more to hold on to here.
So, at the less-than-roaring climax, I started to skim. The last 50 pages and I had to shuffle through the pages hoping for a nugget of colorful, detailed writing. Nope. Not there either.
So, I think I'll take a pass on the rest of the series unless someone can convince me the author has decided to embrace metaphors and the occasional adjective.