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  • Drink Deep & The Broken Lands

    Posted on October 20, 2022 9:50 am by Offkorn Comment

    Whatever it was I liked about Chloe Neill‘s Chicagoland Vampires series enough to read through the first four books, it does not appear to be present in the fifth. This book is infuriating practically from beginning to end with pretty much nothing to recommended it. Character interactions, plot developments, setting… it’s all bad.

    T.A. White‘s Broken Lands series meanwhile is, perhaps unsurprisingly, much like the Firebird Chronicles in many ways. The general setup and character personalities are quite familiar while the setting is completely different; post-apocalyptic fantasy rather than sci-fi.

    The first three novels (Pathfinder’s Way, Mist’s Edge, and Wayfarer’s Keep) are something of a trilogy, with The Wind’s Call (and presumably its follow-up) featuring a different protagonist. That said, the new protagonist and her love interest are much like the previous ones… who still happen to be present. The end result being far too many characters with the same personality crowding about one another. So choosing whether or not to follow this series beyond the third book will heavily depend on your tolerance for repetition.

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    This entry was posted in Book Related and tagged Chicagoland Vampires Chloe Neill Fantasy Paranormal Romance T.A. White The Broken Lands Urban Fantasy
  • The Firebird Chronicles

    Posted on October 13, 2022 4:56 am by Offkorn Comment

    T.A. White’s Firebird Chronicles reminds me of series like Sirantha Jax and Theirs Not to Reason Why. Series that I had almost forgotten I’d missed.

    What’s interesting about these first four books (Rules of Redemption, Age of Deception, Threshold of Annihilation, and Facets of Revolution) is that they tell a continuous story; the next book begins immediately from where the previous ends in an unbroken scene. This poses a bit of a problem since the series is currently incomplete… although I’m not sure if it’s better or worse than using a conventional style of cliffhanger.

    Content-wise you have your standard brash female protagonist with abnormal power forced onto a path she initially doesn’t want which features a love interest it initially seems like a bad idea to get involved with. Yet, despite the fact that I really hate stories where people in positions of power force their views/goals on others this one ends up managing to walk a tightrope balance by having those rulers actually care about the people they’re trying to rule. Which opens the door for compromise (following a conflict of some sort of course).

    That said, the way Facets of Revolution sets the stage for its presumed follow-up is incredibly contrived. Just cringe-inducingly stupid behavior from all involved that does not bode well for whatever the author intends as the endgame.

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