Heidi Angell
Autor de The Hunters
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The Hunted starts where The Hunters ended. Fury, the Immortal, and Havoc and Screvin, the Weres, are searching for the Were girl who turned Screvin. Fury still wants to hunt vampires, but is going along for the time being while Havoc teaches Screvin how to deal with his new status.
They finally catch up with Avie the Were girl and persuade her to join them despite Screvin's mistrust of the girl. Havoc works with the two new Weres, teaching them to meditate and get ready for the change that will happen at the next Full moon.
It becomes clear that someone else is still pursuing them, and hampered by the two newbies, Fury and Havoc decide to try and escape the hunters.
There's a lot of fighting and good battle scenes here. I liked how Screvin had to learn to deal with his growing feelings for Avie. I also like Avie and the mystery around her was intriguing. I read this as an ARC from the author so there were a lot of grammatical errors, but I'm sure they were fixed before publication. Warning: there's a cliffhanger ending which is something that annoys me, but other readers probably won't mind. I gave this 3 and 1/2 stars and I want to thank Ms. Angell for allowing me to continue the adventure from The Hunters.… (más)
They finally catch up with Avie the Were girl and persuade her to join them despite Screvin's mistrust of the girl. Havoc works with the two new Weres, teaching them to meditate and get ready for the change that will happen at the next Full moon.
It becomes clear that someone else is still pursuing them, and hampered by the two newbies, Fury and Havoc decide to try and escape the hunters.
There's a lot of fighting and good battle scenes here. I liked how Screvin had to learn to deal with his growing feelings for Avie. I also like Avie and the mystery around her was intriguing. I read this as an ARC from the author so there were a lot of grammatical errors, but I'm sure they were fixed before publication. Warning: there's a cliffhanger ending which is something that annoys me, but other readers probably won't mind. I gave this 3 and 1/2 stars and I want to thank Ms. Angell for allowing me to continue the adventure from The Hunters.… (más)
The Hunters is a pretty good traditional vampire book where the vampires are evil and deserve to be killed. Chris and his brother Lucas are the only ones in their small town to realize that a group of vampires have invaded. They and some of their friends try to fight back, but are having a hard time until two strangers, Fury and Havoc, show up.
The teens that make up the small band of hunters are varied in their skill sets and characters. There's the football players, the nerds, and a mix of other kids that make the characters very realistic. Havoc and Fury are otherworldly characters, "supervampire hunters", who teach the kids how to fight back and there are some very good fighting scenes in the book.
The story flips among various POVs which is a little confusing, but the reader can adjust. I'd say this was a good book for YA and teens except for one scene with Fury/Havoc with Chris acting as voyeur which seemed out-of-place, but there weren't enough sex scenes to make this book like those of Kresley Cole or Gena Showalter, so I find it hard to decide where to class this.
Still, it's a good story. I especially liked how the teens had to face staking people they knew well or family members once they became vampires. That conflict of trying to save people who are actually dead and killers made for an interesting dynamic. This is a good book for readers who like vampire stories where they're the bad guys.… (más)
The teens that make up the small band of hunters are varied in their skill sets and characters. There's the football players, the nerds, and a mix of other kids that make the characters very realistic. Havoc and Fury are otherworldly characters, "supervampire hunters", who teach the kids how to fight back and there are some very good fighting scenes in the book.
The story flips among various POVs which is a little confusing, but the reader can adjust. I'd say this was a good book for YA and teens except for one scene with Fury/Havoc with Chris acting as voyeur which seemed out-of-place, but there weren't enough sex scenes to make this book like those of Kresley Cole or Gena Showalter, so I find it hard to decide where to class this.
Still, it's a good story. I especially liked how the teens had to face staking people they knew well or family members once they became vampires. That conflict of trying to save people who are actually dead and killers made for an interesting dynamic. This is a good book for readers who like vampire stories where they're the bad guys.… (más)
From the description given, this book seems like it has the potential to be interesting. Coming from the point of view of vampire hunters, it promises action and adventure. In most respects, this is true, and I wasn't disappointed.
The characters themselves were interesting enough, and the struggles they all found themselves dealing with are relate-able (minus vampire hunting...). The two strangers, Fate and Havoc are especially interesting. The mystery surrounding them is the biggest thing keeping the story going, and they're fun to read about.
If I could accurately rate this book, it would be a 2 1/2 star, not three. It's not bad enough to be a 2 though, so I'll settle for 3.
My main reason for not being very impressed, is the overall writing. Half of the time, we're getting what seems like a deeper look into the characters, then at others times, they're all just in the background, with walls up around the details, and everything is a big secret that we never find out.
It was also frustrating, to have spurts of action that suddenly turned into the inner monologues of several characters. A lot of the issues the characters dealt with were repetitive, and it was somewhat irritating to have the action parts stop abruptly to re-read personal issues and fears of characters at random.
The point of view jumps around between several characters, in no distinguishable rhyme or pattern, which was somewhat maddening. It felt like, as the reader, I was constantly flitting around from person to person, getting details sometimes, and being pushed away at others.
I also didn't care for the ending- the last several chapters felt like a cop-out, just throwing together cliches to force an ending. The attempted cliff-hanger at the very end was frustrating, and made me want to just be done with it.
I also did not care at all, for the language that was used. It was enough to make me want to put it down all together, especially in the first half of the book. Note to parents there- this book is NOT suitable for younger audiences. The F word and "hell" were used in almost every other sentence, and it didn't seem at all necessary. While I can see why it fit for the situation the characters were in, and their frustrations, it was very unpleasant for me to read. I also didn't care for the randomly thrown in erotic scenes, and had it persisted much longer, I wouldn't have finished this book at all.
The overall effect made me not want to finish reading this book, and I only did because I agreed to read it for the author in exchange for this honest review, and had a mild curiosity as to how it would end. It was an ok story...not great though, and not a book I'll read again.
The overall story is interesting, and apart from the writing style and inappropriate language, the mix of the different mythical creatures did make for an interesting story. The action and fighting scenes with the vampires were well written and exciting, and probably the best part of the book, apart from Havoc and Fate.
This isn't a book I'd be quick to recommend, but if it sounds interesting, it's worth the read (if foul language doesn't bother you). It is a book that could appeal to a lot of readers, I just wasn't all that impressed. It has an interesting enough story to compete with the distasteful aspects though, which says a lot.… (más)
The characters themselves were interesting enough, and the struggles they all found themselves dealing with are relate-able (minus vampire hunting...). The two strangers, Fate and Havoc are especially interesting. The mystery surrounding them is the biggest thing keeping the story going, and they're fun to read about.
If I could accurately rate this book, it would be a 2 1/2 star, not three. It's not bad enough to be a 2 though, so I'll settle for 3.
My main reason for not being very impressed, is the overall writing. Half of the time, we're getting what seems like a deeper look into the characters, then at others times, they're all just in the background, with walls up around the details, and everything is a big secret that we never find out.
It was also frustrating, to have spurts of action that suddenly turned into the inner monologues of several characters. A lot of the issues the characters dealt with were repetitive, and it was somewhat irritating to have the action parts stop abruptly to re-read personal issues and fears of characters at random.
The point of view jumps around between several characters, in no distinguishable rhyme or pattern, which was somewhat maddening. It felt like, as the reader, I was constantly flitting around from person to person, getting details sometimes, and being pushed away at others.
I also didn't care for the ending- the last several chapters felt like a cop-out, just throwing together cliches to force an ending. The attempted cliff-hanger at the very end was frustrating, and made me want to just be done with it.
I also did not care at all, for the language that was used. It was enough to make me want to put it down all together, especially in the first half of the book. Note to parents there- this book is NOT suitable for younger audiences. The F word and "hell" were used in almost every other sentence, and it didn't seem at all necessary. While I can see why it fit for the situation the characters were in, and their frustrations, it was very unpleasant for me to read. I also didn't care for the randomly thrown in erotic scenes, and had it persisted much longer, I wouldn't have finished this book at all.
The overall effect made me not want to finish reading this book, and I only did because I agreed to read it for the author in exchange for this honest review, and had a mild curiosity as to how it would end. It was an ok story...not great though, and not a book I'll read again.
The overall story is interesting, and apart from the writing style and inappropriate language, the mix of the different mythical creatures did make for an interesting story. The action and fighting scenes with the vampires were well written and exciting, and probably the best part of the book, apart from Havoc and Fate.
This isn't a book I'd be quick to recommend, but if it sounds interesting, it's worth the read (if foul language doesn't bother you). It is a book that could appeal to a lot of readers, I just wasn't all that impressed. It has an interesting enough story to compete with the distasteful aspects though, which says a lot.… (más)
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- 13
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- 4.1
- Reseñas
- 7
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I felt the characters in this book were very well-fleshed out but it bothered me the way that Sam’s friends didn’t seem to care that the notes upset her. While she did have some support, in the form of Wes (one of her friend’s brother), it made the story seem more real and unsettling to show how isolated a person going through this kind of situation can feel. I can’t wait to see what else Sam has in store for her in the next installment of the series.… (más)