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#5 Platform - No Humans Involved
May. 22nd, 2007 01:28 pmNecromancers beat werewolves any day.
Book #23: No Humans Involved
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Provenance: Bought off of Amazon.ca
I've been a fan of Kelley Armstrong since I was in Yamagata, when I read Dime Store Magic. For the most part, she's been very consistent and very good, with compelling characters and twisty but realistic enough plots, along with good dialogue.
She switches her first person narrators around, though, and they're of varying quality. The one for this book, Jaime Vegas, has been around for a while, but has this as her first main novel. Turns out, she's better than Elena (the werewolf who did books 1, 2, and 6), but not as good as Eve (the ghost/witch from book 5) and certainly not as good as Paige (the witch who's the center of 3 and 4). That she still feels like a different character from the previous narrators is nice, though.
Here, there are seances and a ring that seems to be going into sacrificing people, and so having the necromancer front and center does make sense. Like her other books, there're a lot of characters floating around, and I think increasingly, you need to have read the other ones to enjoy them at this point. But the plot is still twisty and fun, and I guessed the wrong culprit; it's always nice when that happens realistically.
The main problem I have with it is that she's gone back to having rather more sexual content; this fit the Jaime character, but I personally feel sorta meh about it. And the love interest character, who's been around for a long time, felt out of character at points to me, mostly to accomodate the love interest plotline. So I felt particularly meh about it, but maybe she'll mesh it in better in later books.
All in all, still the same fun, fast, slightly guilty novel that I expect and enjoy from Armstrong, and definitely better than the last entry in the series.
Next up: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. I feel like some non-fiction.
Book #23: No Humans Involved
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Provenance: Bought off of Amazon.ca
I've been a fan of Kelley Armstrong since I was in Yamagata, when I read Dime Store Magic. For the most part, she's been very consistent and very good, with compelling characters and twisty but realistic enough plots, along with good dialogue.
She switches her first person narrators around, though, and they're of varying quality. The one for this book, Jaime Vegas, has been around for a while, but has this as her first main novel. Turns out, she's better than Elena (the werewolf who did books 1, 2, and 6), but not as good as Eve (the ghost/witch from book 5) and certainly not as good as Paige (the witch who's the center of 3 and 4). That she still feels like a different character from the previous narrators is nice, though.
Here, there are seances and a ring that seems to be going into sacrificing people, and so having the necromancer front and center does make sense. Like her other books, there're a lot of characters floating around, and I think increasingly, you need to have read the other ones to enjoy them at this point. But the plot is still twisty and fun, and I guessed the wrong culprit; it's always nice when that happens realistically.
The main problem I have with it is that she's gone back to having rather more sexual content; this fit the Jaime character, but I personally feel sorta meh about it. And the love interest character, who's been around for a long time, felt out of character at points to me, mostly to accomodate the love interest plotline. So I felt particularly meh about it, but maybe she'll mesh it in better in later books.
All in all, still the same fun, fast, slightly guilty novel that I expect and enjoy from Armstrong, and definitely better than the last entry in the series.
Next up: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. I feel like some non-fiction.
