Delightful, honestly. Enjoyable characters, decent story, bad guys you hate and no boring bits. ( )

Acceptable

Not bad. The writing moves well. The story is consistent. The dialogue is mostly believable and occasionally amusing.

But there is at least one glaring plot hole. And some of the characters don't always react true to form.

A light read, with some cleverness. ( )

I don't give many 5 star reviews, and I was a little hesitant doing so with this one, but I decided to round up because it's a well-written, thoroughly enjoyable book from beginning to end. The narrative and dialogue are well-written without a wasted, superfluous word. This is not a roller coaster story with its slow up and crazy, exciting downs. It's more like a rocket car the blasts off and pushes you back in your seat for the entire ride. Editing is very good. I caught a missing opening quotation mark near the end of the book, and that's the only oops I recall seeing. Was it perfect? Of course not. Haven't met the book that is. I felt a slight decline near the end. The enemy is described as this huge, powerful paramilitary force bent on eradicating all non humans. This made the ending a little implausible as it was wrapped up neatly and with relative ease. The bad guys have this big noise machine (I assume it blasts a combination of gangsta rap and jazz) that's supposed to turn non human brains into mush, but they don't bother to use it until the hero is nearby and able to shut it off before it makes his kind extinct. It's also only briefly mentioned and isn't really part of the story until the end. A bit of a plot hole. ( )

This is an urban fantasy. No cliffhanger, no sex, lots of violence but nothing overly descriptive. It’s part of a series and there isn’t exactly a HEA, but everybody lives so that’s a plus.

This story was pretty straight forward. It wasn’t hard to figure out the players and the plot was simple enough. The whole story was an adventure – kind of a death at every turn kind of adventure. This world focused on the OtherWorld. Gideon is the main character and though he is clueless to begin with, it was a sink or swim sort of scenario. If he didn’t figure out the puzzle, he was dead.

The secondary characters were ok. They were put together well enough, but I did have a tough time picturing them. I liked the story and it wasn’t complicated. If you want a good book that is 98% action and adventure, this story would be right up your alley. ( )

Loved it! This book had to perfect amount of comedy and action. I gotta say, Gideon held it together pretty well while learning about this new side of life. And the triangle between Gideon, Sadie, and Taeral is interesting and I can't wait to find out how it's solved. ( )