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Breed Of Innocence (2012)

by Lanie Jordan(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

LJ Books

series

The Breed Chronicles

review 1: Breed of Innocence – Phase 1 – Book OneJade was living in a girls’ home run by the lovely Mrs. Gill (aka Fishface). Two cops (Holt and Walden) appear at the home and ask to speak privately with Jade. Jade cannot think of a think she’s done to warrant a visit from the cops, but she’s also sure Mrs. Gill or one of the other girls will be more than happy to blame something on her. Jade’s mother and brother were murdered when Jade was 14. Almost two years have passed since that time, but the crime is still vivid in her mind. She saw the murderer. It was a demon. Of course, no one believed her, and the crime remains unsolved. Jade sneaks out of the group home to hunt demons on a regular basis. The men who’ve come to see her work for the Consortium of Genetic Engin... moreeering, or CGE, and they want to offer her a job hunting demons. At first, she has a hard time believing they are sincere. After they take her on a small mission and actually capture a demon that is in the process of assaulting a woman, Jade’s hesitancy vanishes. She’s in. She still has to finish her education and train extensively prior to being allowed to actually hunt demons, but she’s good with that, as long as she is able to eventually hunt down the demon that killed her family. She will also be required to give DNA for scientific research. Almost immediately upon her arrival she makes friends with a handsome young man, Linc Stone, and enemies with a young woman named Felecia. The first phase of Jade’s training is not filled with just routine exercises; her life has never been so simple. Danger lurks.Lanie Jordan is an excellent author; sometimes the book has an almost Harry Potter-ish feel to it, at least Book One does, for brief instances, as the descriptions of the students, cliques, and classes are discussed. This is not a bad thing, it is done in an almost teasing manner, lending a comforting feel to the school. The characters are very well developed, most being multi-faceted. Jade can be an emotional rollercoaster, the kind of person who can be fun and loyal, but also tiring if her moods start swinging. Linc is strong, thoughtful, and an almost perfect friend. Felecia is the most conniving, lowlife enemy one could ever hope to read about. Jordan portrays these people so well through their interactions, they live and breathe; they become beings the reader can care about or love to care nothing about, as the case may be. The demons are even well developed. They are so vividly and realistically depicted, the reader might expect to find one in their own warehouse district late at night. Thus, the world Jordan has created sparkles with life. It is frightening in its possibilities. I received a free ARC through LoP via Goodreads in exchange for an honest review.
review 2: I won a copy of this book in Elle Casey's Springtime Indie Book Giveaway.Very cool! I liked the heroine, Jade, quite a lot. She's a smart, strong, and sassy kind of girl, who has developed a take-no-crap attitude as a result of having gone through, well, some crap. At the same time, she remains a sweet person without the thick walls that so many "strong female characters" seem to be given by default these days. Although at times -- especially in the first few chapters -- she seems to speak less like a real teenage girl and more like how an adult author would imagine a smart, strong, and sassy teenage girl to speak, she is generally believable. There are a few parts of this book that are slightly repetitive, such as Jade's later conversations with Director Greene -- enough so that the denouement felt a little anticlimactic -- but overall it's well-written and paced. The secrets and mysteries of this near-future, near-realistic dystopia are revealed in good time. And they are more sci-fi than fantasy!I enjoyed Jade's friendship with Linc, another student (or "prospect") at the GCE's "school for demon hunters", and how it develops into a very solid friendship regardless of any potential romantic involvement or attraction. I only wish we got to know a little more about Linc as an individual, apart from simply in relation to Jade.It's understandable, given how much time Jade is contrived to spend studying, that she wouldn't have many other friendships, but it's a little disappointing that the only other student we see all that much of is Felecia, a somewhat typical "Mean Girl" antagonist. I hope to see Jade develop a few more peer friendships in Book 2 - which I've already started reading! less

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