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13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very disappointing, September 7, 2008
This novel was horribly disappointing, mostly in that it lacked a viable premise. I have been an avid reader of the Anna Strong series, and in fact had written down the release date of this book months in advance, only to be almost disgusted by the negligible way the author cobbled this story together. Instead of an enjoyable mystery for the heroine to solve, we are instead treated to Anna bumbling about, doing one act of stupidity after another. Half of the book contains many varied lines of characters ( including Anna herself) acknowledging her stupidity in one way or another. One of the most ridiculous (SPOILER ALERT) is that she goes to confront 2 hostile werewolves without bothering to bring a silver weapon along to protect herself, even though she had just recently finished reading a werewolf handbook, for Pete's sake!! Plus, the ending was so anti-climactic, I was pounding my head in deep frustration. This book makes me feel like the author just churned out a half-baked novel just to make some quick cash, not caring that it might hurt her fan base in the process. Ive always been a subscriber of the " If you are going to do something, then do it well" club, and this definitely was NOT it.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Missed the Mark!, September 19, 2008
While reading this book I had the feeling something was missing and when I got to the end of the book I realized it was the PLOT! Anna is again coming to grips with her loss of humanity and accepting she is a vampire. The main plot was about Gloria, who is her partner David's girlfriend, who is accused of murder. Then there are two women werewolves that she meets in Mexico and one of them turns out to be Avery's, ex-wife, Sandra. Avery was Anna's vampire lover in book one that she killed. Now Sandra is possessed by Avery. Neither plot was fleshed out. The most exciting part of the book was told in the last few pages and frankly I spent the whole book wondering what this book about. The book was entertaining enough. I like Anna and I like the authors writing style but compared to the first three books, this book lacked umph! If you skipped it, I don't think you would have missed anything as far as progression of Anna's character.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing 4th Installment, December 2, 2008
I really enjoyed the first three novels in this series, and if you haven't read them, I absolutely would recommend them. I pre-ordered this book ages ago, and was very excited to read it. Unfortunately it was... eh. Just kind of eh. I was happy to read more about Anna, follow the characters and plot along, but all throughout the book, I kept feeling like Stein perhaps was under the gun owing the publisher a new book, and slapped this together quickly. The plot is not all that interesting, and never really gets totally resolved (at least not enough for me). Also, you don't learn much about the characters you already know, there isn't much character development, it's all just sort of in stasis.
I was disappointed in this one, though I know I'll read the next, but might end up getting it from the library, rather than pre-ordering it.
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