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#5 Platform - Personal Demon
Apr. 1st, 2008 08:10 pmBecause I just can't stop myself from reading more about Lucas Cortez...
Book #12: Personal Demon
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Provenance: Bought new off of amazon.ca
It's not a secret that I'm a Kelley Armstrong fan, so it's perhaps not a surprise that I picked this up and read it as soon as I could when it came out. I was pretty happy with the results, but it's not perfect.
Here, we have two narrators: Hope, a half-demon who's got a hunger for chaos, and also Lucas, the sorceror first in Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic. The latter definitely has his own voice, and it shows in his narration. The former, unfortunately, I felt seems pretty close to some of the previous narrators in the series. She's definitely different in terms of her power set, so it's not like a direct overlap, but it does feel not as far off as I'd like.
Still, I like the writing style on the whole, you get some characters you like back, and some new ones. And the plot is very solid: twisty, but in ways that work well and tie into the rest of the series. Hope infiltrates a gang that might have pretentions to taking on a Cabal, and both the parts with the gang and the fallout once all the schemes are working goes quite well. It was engrossing; I tore through the book in a couple of days, basically.
I'm mostly dinging it for the character similiarities, but everything else here is good, and I like it better than the previous book in the series, which is a good sign. If you like her, you'll like this one, too.
Next up: Tokyo Rising. Should finish the other half while the first is fresh in my mind.
Book #12: Personal Demon
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Provenance: Bought new off of amazon.ca
It's not a secret that I'm a Kelley Armstrong fan, so it's perhaps not a surprise that I picked this up and read it as soon as I could when it came out. I was pretty happy with the results, but it's not perfect.
Here, we have two narrators: Hope, a half-demon who's got a hunger for chaos, and also Lucas, the sorceror first in Dime Store Magic and Industrial Magic. The latter definitely has his own voice, and it shows in his narration. The former, unfortunately, I felt seems pretty close to some of the previous narrators in the series. She's definitely different in terms of her power set, so it's not like a direct overlap, but it does feel not as far off as I'd like.
Still, I like the writing style on the whole, you get some characters you like back, and some new ones. And the plot is very solid: twisty, but in ways that work well and tie into the rest of the series. Hope infiltrates a gang that might have pretentions to taking on a Cabal, and both the parts with the gang and the fallout once all the schemes are working goes quite well. It was engrossing; I tore through the book in a couple of days, basically.
I'm mostly dinging it for the character similiarities, but everything else here is good, and I like it better than the previous book in the series, which is a good sign. If you like her, you'll like this one, too.
Next up: Tokyo Rising. Should finish the other half while the first is fresh in my mind.
