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Brimstone Kiss (2008)

by Carole Nelson Douglas(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0809573040 (ISBN13: 9780809573042)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Pocket Books

series

Delilah Street

review 1: I am not enjoying the author's writing style at all. She seems overly obsessed with turning her main character into a victim, and seems to really think her including imagined rape scenes over and over is titillating or edgy. It's not, it's just disgusting. I was angered by the repetition of what makes Del such an attraction to the "unhuman" predators in the first book, as well as what I consider lazy writing - repetition, inconsistencies, unexplained plot points (not even ones that are meant to be mysteries, some were just dropped), etc. The magic in the world is what made me decide to check out the second book, but I am already regretting it. Going with some of the reviews, it looks like I won't be enjoying the book if I do try to finish it.Did not finish. If I ever ... morecome back to it and finish it, I'll edit my review.Edit: I went back and finished it and it never got much better if any better at all. The big questions that really should have more information on do not, and in fact, have more questions. I don't like anything in this series enough to continue, and I almost felt that way about the first book. I would have felt the same about that book, if it weren't for the intriguing hints that Del's magic gave off of being something special. Even the magic is not enough to sustain my interest in this series. The second half of the book was like an entirely different book; it was not connected in hardly any way, shape, or form to the first half of the book, and had a different tone to it. The information about the "bad guys" was interesting, and showed promise, but once again not enough to make this a good book. Del jumps to conclusions at the end of the book that just happen to be right. She didn't have enough evidence to make those conclusions, and everyone who came to the rescue probably wouldn't have done so. It just feels like a case of the author says it happened this way, is too lazy to figure out a better way to develop reasons to explain why they happened, and so they just do.
review 2: I really tried to ignore the bad reviews this book was given by other readers, but... I finished it even after hitting the most blatantly lazy writing ever! Either Carole forgot she used the passage before or she was just lazy, but a paragraph on page 56 and one on page 43 are almost verbatim! The dialog between Ric and Delilah is identical. As my daughter would say, "wtf?"But I like the mythology Ms. Douglas is developing and want to see where she goes with it. I just hope she will write more carefully in the next installment - or hire a better proofreader! Do they think even casual readers would put it down as a case of deja vu? less

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