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Red Blooded (2014)

by Amanda Carlson(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316404330 (ISBN13: 9780316404334)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Orbit

series

Jessica McClain

review 1: Well, once again Jessica prevails only to end the book on a cliffhanger. This time the book started five days after her brother was taken to the Underworld. Even though it was a lot of action I still felt as if it dragged a bit. There were even more new creatures introduced, so I'm thinking the number of supernaturals in this series is up around 106. Okay, not really, but it seems as if there's something new on every other page. For most of the book it's just Jessica running around the Hell with a new "friend" and getting out of all trouble that comes her way. Then the rest of her pack shows up to help save her, but of course Jessica saves everybody. I think I would've been happier if the last two or three chapters didn't happen or ended differently. I'm glad Jessica and R... moreourke got a few days of R&R, but then another emergency that only Jessica can fix happens and enter dire warning and it's over. There's never any getting use to her new powers or magic before she fights and uses it and seems to automatically know what she's supposed to do. At least this book didn't end in a kidnapping. Just talk of someone giving themselves up, so that's different from the other three books in the series.Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.
review 2: Red Blooded, Amanda CarlsonReview from jeannie zelos book reviews Well, sadly for me this series has gone downhill. I enjoyed the first book, but with reservations – that's common I find though in first books in a series, they’ve a tough job introducing worlds and characters, and delivering a decent story. Then the second had a few things that grated, somehow I missed book three and now we’re on book four.I was able to pick up the story easily despite missing the third book. It’s the end of the series for me though – what seemed promising has for me turned too repetitive. Each danger seems to go the same way, unexpected creatures or familiar ones acting in an unexpected way and – hey - someone develops a new power and comes to the rescue in the nick of time....This time too the major actions take place in Hell, and that's not really my niche. I want to see characters interacting – the people I know and love from the series, but here they play a secondary role, it seems to me.Jessica is gaining more new powers, and it seems everyone from her group seem to be “unique” in some way. Really? A small group of people and yet almost everyone of them is developing some new and unheard of power or talent? Jessica was the first one and that worked, but now everyone seems to be getting some new side that makes them special and it just isn’t...special that is! Familiarity breeds contempt and all that. There’s more too – my real pet hate in fantasy is when a character gets some new and unheard of skill just at the critical moment to get them out of trouble – Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake went this way, and that was one of the things that made me give up on that series. She became someone I just didn’t recognise as the same person from the start. Growth of character is fine but for me they still need to be recognisable. I want my characters to work, I need to feel the danger is real, and if they just keep getting powers like this it takes all the element of skill in getting out of trouble away. With the action taking place in the underworld too this book didn’t feel the same to me, with little interaction from all the people we’ve come to know so far, and Jessica meeting constant new types of demons, but getting powers somehow or help from new sources to overcome them. Sorry Amanda, you’re a great writer and I loved the premise of this series, but for me its become one I’ve lost interest in. This book just proved to me how far away from the first the series has come for me. Stars: Two – but again that’s just me, and I'm sure others will five star it. ARC supplied by Netgalley and publishers. less

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