coral reviewed Dark debt by Chloe Neill (Chicagoland vampires novels)
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4 stars
I haven't been good about reviewing this series (which I'd feel more guilty about, but it's apparently finished, meaning that the author does not need reviews that badly). I can't help but comment, at least briefly, about this installment, though: it feels like it's full of homages to other paranormal romance/urban fantasy authors, notably Laurell K. Hamilton (an antagonist with a French accent and sex-based powers? come on, it was like she mashed up Jean Claude and Narcissus into one guy) and Kim Harrison (two characters used one of Jenks's catchphrases, "crap on toast"). I wonder which others I missed.
(Homer doesn't count.)
I keep giving these books 4 stars, so clearly I like them well enough. They're not super deep, and they feature Yet Another Lit Major As Paranormal Heroine, but they're entertaining. And the audiobook performer has finally started pronouncing "sups" as "soops" and not "suhps," at this …
I haven't been good about reviewing this series (which I'd feel more guilty about, but it's apparently finished, meaning that the author does not need reviews that badly). I can't help but comment, at least briefly, about this installment, though: it feels like it's full of homages to other paranormal romance/urban fantasy authors, notably Laurell K. Hamilton (an antagonist with a French accent and sex-based powers? come on, it was like she mashed up Jean Claude and Narcissus into one guy) and Kim Harrison (two characters used one of Jenks's catchphrases, "crap on toast"). I wonder which others I missed.
(Homer doesn't count.)
I keep giving these books 4 stars, so clearly I like them well enough. They're not super deep, and they feature Yet Another Lit Major As Paranormal Heroine, but they're entertaining. And the audiobook performer has finally started pronouncing "sups" as "soops" and not "suhps," at this point in the series, so that's nice. (I get the sense she doesn't have quite the vocabulary the author does. She's an excellent performer, with good character voices and accents, but her mispronunciations—of real words, not just common made-up ones—can be really distracting.)