Nina Berry
Autor de Otherkin
Sobre El Autor
Nina Berry grew up in Honolulu and went to college at the University of Chicago, where she took a lot of film classes, wrote her thesis on A Hard Day¿s Night, and graduated with honors. After getting her Masters in Film and TV from Northwestern University, she moved to Los Angeles, where she works mostrar más in television by day and writes novels by night. She¿s the author of the acclaimed paranormal Otherkin series from Kensington Books. Her title The Notorious Pagan Jones made the teen webinar titles list. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
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- Obras
- 8
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- 1
- Miembros
- 224
- Popularidad
- #100,172
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 28
- ISBNs
- 27
Even if Pagan isn’t fully involved in the spy action until closer to the end, from early on she is investigating her mom’s past, trying to figure out her man of mystery guardian Devin, there’s the constant question of will she fall off the wagon and when things do turn more action-oriented it’s very much Pagan taking the lead on that, so there is still plenty of intrigue here even if it ultimately wasn’t as much of a full on spy story as I’d anticipated going in.
The time period details lived up to my expectations without going overboard or slowing things, I especially loved the fashion and glimpses of movie-making in that era.
I enjoyed Pagan’s chemistry with Devin (he’s only three years older and not a guardian in a parental sense so it’s not creepy) yet at the same time I appreciated that a romance between them never became the primary focus of the book given that there were other aspects to the story that I felt like were more vital to the development of Pagan’s character.
I loved every messy bit of Pagan’s personality and her life, the guilt and PTSD she carries over what she did to her dad and sister were palpable and brilliantly came into play at a pivotal moment, her lingering feelings for/and scenes with the ex who abandoned her were completely absorbing, and maybe more than anything else I liked that her drinking problem is handled realistically, ever present, ever challenging for her.… (más)