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Discount Armageddon (2012)

by Seanan McGuire(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0756407133 (ISBN13: 9780756407131)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

DAW

series

InCryptid

review 1: This was a great story and super entertaining. Don't let your kid get into it! lol. I had to stop a few time when the characters got a little spicy and then wait until he wasn't with me. Which sucked because he was mad at me because he really loved the story otherwise. Not shocking because there was lots of fun and action in this one. I can tell how much my son enjoys a story by how mad he gets at me when I press pause and give him the "Adult stuff, sorry" line. Normally he doesn't care but he was fuming with this one.
review 2: Despite reading some good reviews for Discount Armageddon and being intrigued by the description, I could not get into it. I picked it up at least a dozen times, yet barely pushed through the first few chapters. I simply couldn't get in... moreto this book. First, each chapter started with a quote from a character that hadn't really been introduced, along with the location of where that particular scene was taking place, as if I were reading a play instead of a novel. And for some reason, having the location in bold print just bugged me. Shouldn't the reader be able to figure it out? It wasn't that hard to deduce where the action of that "scene" was taking place. With the quote and location, it just felt a bit too gimmicky for my tastes.Second, this book just didn't flow for me. Unlike some books, I will say the problem was not that the writing was choppy. It was more to do with the fact it was kind of blah and really wasn't going anywhere. I kept reading waiting for some hint of a plot, which according to the description was the main character meeting a Covenant boy, the enemies of her family (Romeo & Juliet anyone?). But after so many pages, I failed to find any hint of a plot other than the main character was a cryptozoologist who'd rather be a dancer, and her family had graced her with a year to live in NYC on her own. (Although there was no real explanation in the pages I read as to why living away from home was an issue for her family.) And I get that there has to be some world building, and world building can be tricky. Here, I find it failed. At least give me something to hang on to other than mystical mice and a boogie man owning a strip club while building the world.And was was up with the tribal-esque mice? Guess I'll never know since I failed to finish it. Either way, my to-read pile is too deep to waste time trying to push through a book I clearly was not enjoying. less

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