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Alexander Death (2000)

by J.L. Bryan(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

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Romance

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The Paranormals

review 1: The first 2 books in the Paranormals series were really great, this installment though was a disappointment. Especially character development was handled extremely poorly, Tommy and Esmaralda are almost non-existent and get horrible last scene, Ashleigh and Alexander never get granted any depth but are villains by the book, Jenny herself changes her mind about things (including love) within a page. There was almost nothing left of the slow build and introspection "Jenny Pox" had. If the mythology would have blossomed I might have been not as critical with these short comings but that was disaster field, too. We don't really get much new information on where the Paranormals come from and I didn't enjoy how they mostly seemed ruled by their powers and did the same things li... morefe after life. Only Jenny and Seth have something like free will? The reincarnation aspect could have been an interesting exploration about choices but it failed on that (and how does that work anyway, they all were similar age, but now that some have died will they reincarnate right away? Does that mean the last time they died at the same time???); we learn that Seth and Jenny do choose love but that was done so cheesy the last page made me want to throw my kindle out the window. This book had too much plot to focus on the interesting things and didn't have enough plot to come up with something interesting, in the other books I wondered where things might go, here I foresaw most turns and was gutted about the wasted potential. So sad how this series went downhill, but apparently most other fans here on goodreads seem to be satisfied. I am not sure I will go for the 4th book, right now I cannot see how there could be recovery from the damage done in "Alexander Death", it literally killed all the hopes I had after reading the first 2; maybe my hopes were unrealistic but they were born out of the other books so they couldn't have been too far out of reach. Just slightly above a 1 star rating for me.
review 2: I really loved Alexander in this book. He was a charmer. There were certain twists involving him that I saw coming, but it didn’t make him anymore less of a fun character. That and when Jenny was in his presence, she was FUN. I was really disappointed in Jenny at the end of the book. Not because it was out of character, but because I really preferred her other option. More FUN.Drugged Jenny = Fun Jenny.Sober Jenny = OMG life sucks Jenny.The locations in this book were so vivid that I could just imagine myself there with the characters. If it weren’t for the discrepancies, I might have loved this book more than the second. Those minor mistakes pulled me out of the story and turned this fantasy world back into just a book.I think that the setup for this part of Jenny’s story was flawed. The discrepancies from book 2 to 3 is the only reason I rated this book as low as I did.The most flawed was the character, Heather. In the second book she didn’t have much of a personality. She does things for plot purposes but overall she is very indifferent and focused on her work. All of a sudden in book 3, Heather tries to act like Mom of the Year because her daughter is in the hospital with cancer and she’s on chemo. How was this not mentioned in book two? At all (I double checked!)? Heather is in Haiti for months (two I think), goes directly to Fallen Oaks to investigate, goes to Charleston to investigate that, and never once visits or talks to her daughter. She talks to her husband ONCE in book two and shows disinterest when he mentions what their daughter is up to. Heather shows no regret in being absent from her daughter’s life, so I really don’t get the switch up.Also, in this book Seth finds Jenny’s car after 3 months of it being abandoned in a parking garage. But, how were the cops not able to find the car? There is a nationwide search for her and her vehicle, but the cops (who were directed by a certain villain to the exact location of Jenny and her vehicle) weren’t able to find it. It was on the top level of a full parking garage next to the area where all hell breaks loose. Why wouldn’t the cops search this place? It doesn’t make sense.Oh, and Seth is completely oblivious (aka dumb) to clues about what’s really going on. I really can’t stand him and I don’t understand why Jenny likes him considering everything that has happened. (C+)(I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.) less

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