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With Silent Screams (2014)

by Steve McHugh(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1612184588 (ISBN13: 9781612184586)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

47North

series

Hellequin Chronicles

review 1: Hrm. With this installment, my interest in the Hellequin Chronicles wains.Also, if Hellequin makes you think "Harlequin", this is not the book you're looking for.WHAT I LIKED----------------* Humor. Characters have a quick-and-dark wit. Mostly snappy dialogue.* History-Present-Repeat. McHugh does a good job of lacing together a historical plot and a current day plot with the ties that make them relevant to each other.* Moves fast, plenty of action.WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE---------------------* Really confusing plot. I'm no simpleton, and I like myself a deep plot, but I have to admit I had trouble keeping up with how the gates, guardians, and tattoo people all worked together. Which also meant I had trouble figuring out why the bad folks were doing the bad things. I re-read some... more big chunks here and there to try to maximize my understanding, but I still finished the book thinking, "...okay. Well, the good guy won, and there was lots of cool action, anyway."* Nate is now *way* overpowered. This means the bad folks have to be *way* overpowered, too. Which, I think, is what leads to the kind of convoluted storyline in this book. While Hellequin reminds me a lot of Harry Dresden, the sorcerer/wizard differences really become obvious in this installments. Harry builds things, learns things, studies, and "levels up", if you will, between books. Hellequin just get more powers, or stronger versions of powers he already has, or loses one type of power to gain another. I find this less interesting, despite the author trying to spice it up by tying those things to "unknowns" in Hellequin's past.This will probably be the last Hellequin book I read, but everyone has different tastes. If you purchased the first two and really liked them, you might want check this one out of your library or borrow it, before continuing to invest in the series.
review 2: As a BIG fan of urban fantasy I ate these books up in moments when I found them. However, of the three currently available I preferred 1 and 2. This book is a pretty good read and explores the nature of alternate realms nicely (providing some answers to my questions about the location of Camelot etc after the other two books), but it would have been nice to see more progression in Nate's history as the Hellequin.Overall a good book, but it felt a little slow compared to the previous ones with less Hellequin ass kicking action. But this could be ground work towards a great book number 4. Looking forward to "Prison of Hope". less

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