{"id":562,"date":"2013-09-02T00:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog-new\/?p=562"},"modified":"2013-09-02T00:38:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:38:34","slug":"possession-twisted-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/possession-twisted-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Possession, Twisted, & Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Possession<\/em> is the eighth installment in Kat Richardson’s Greywalker<\/a> series. After the reading sixth book, Downpour<\/em>, I wasn’t planning on continuing this series… then Sea Witch<\/em> arrived out of nowhere (apparently I blindly pre-ordered it) and it was enjoyable enough to reverse that decision. This one is much more like Downpour<\/em> than Sea Witch<\/em>; dry, not very interesting, and fairly detached. It feels more like reading a history student’s dissertation than a fantasy novel.<\/p>\n

I picked up two of Laura Griffin<\/a>‘s Tracers<\/em> novels basically on a whim, hoping a change from the urban fantasy genre might open up some new avenues. Sadly, both of these books (Twisted<\/em>, Exposed<\/em>) are structured remarkably similar to your generic one-shot paranormal romance novel. I was getting flashbacks to Gena Showalter<\/a>‘s novels while reading them, and that’s not really a good thing if you’re looking for something on the realistic side.<\/p>\n

If you just want some spontaneous\/forced romance (Twisted<\/em>‘s isn’t as bad as Exposed<\/em>‘s in this regard) tinged with a bit of excitement though, in the form of racing against the clock to stop a killer, then these books are pretty good at delivering just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possession is the eighth installment in Kat Richardson’s Greywalker series. After the reading sixth book, Downpour, I wasn’t planning on continuing this series… then Sea Witch arrived out of nowhere (apparently I blindly pre-ordered it) and it was enjoyable enough to reverse that decision. This one is much more like Downpour than Sea Witch; dry, not very interesting, and fairly detached. It feels more like reading a history student’s dissertation than a fantasy novel. I picked up two of Laura Griffin‘s Tracers novels basically on a whim, hoping a change from the urban fantasy genre might open up some new avenues. Sadly, both of these books (Twisted, Exposed) are structured remarkably similar to your generic one-shot paranormal romance novel. I was getting flashbacks to Gena Showalter‘s novels while reading them, and that’s not really a good thing if you’re looking for something on the realistic side. If you just want some spontaneous\/forced romance (Twisted‘s isn’t as bad as Exposed‘s in this regard) tinged with a bit of excitement though, in the form of racing against the clock to stop a killer, then these books are pretty good at delivering just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[94,91,92,64,95,93,30],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-greywalker","tag-kat-richardson","tag-laura-griffin","tag-romance","tag-thriller","tag-tracers","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}