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Carregando... The Better Part of Darknessde Kelly Gay
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I really wanted to like this book. The main character was original: divorced with a kid, so I assumed she'd be mature and avoid the silly whining, stupid mistakes and teen girl crushes of other twenty-something main characters. Wrong. She makes incredibly stupid mistakes. I never made it beyond halfway through the book but by then she'd managed to ditch her back up every chance she got and throw herself into suicidal positions. What mother does that? Oh -'and let's not forget her Mary Sue ability to develop weird new powers that make her uber special. And the way too special partner who will predictably become her lover. Too bad he's boring and there's no spark. Over all tried too hard and was way too cliched. WOW! This book is amazing. I haven't read a book this imaginative in some time, which is definitely a good thing. I was starting to think the world ran out of creative ideas. The characters are awesome and richly developed; Hank is definitely by far my favorite. I also love how the characters are described as "beings from heaven and hell"; this book lends to both good and bad as well as the non-typical mythological creature...how often do you see a book with Sirens, let alone male Sirens. The plot is amazing and action packed from page one...just a totally awesome book. READ IT!!! sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sérieCharlie Madigan (1) Prêmios
Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil.... Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She's recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.'s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim -- but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The problem I had was that for all the fun and interesting that was Charlie, she was possibly the only character I wanted to read about. There were plenty of other characters--informants, coworkers, her partner, bad guys, etc--which is probably what made it hard to want to know any of them. Aside from her daughter and her partner, everyone else just came and went. While this works great for later in the series, when Kelly may want to call upon them and dive a bit deeper, for a first book it clutters my attention. It felt like each time I met one person someone new popped up.
The amount of detail Kelly puts into her version of Atlanta is awe-inspiring honestly. I've been there twice in my life and can recognize some of the places that Charlie talks about 'from before' but this Atlanta is so different. Its almost a character on its own honestly.
In the end I had trouble enjoying this book because I was uncertain who was doing what and when, or who was who. I have a feeling when the second book is released Kelly will have a stronger grasp on who she wants to have running around in her world however and look forward to that book. ( )