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Yay, my review is on The Best Books Ever because Sarah is the best (see what I did there?). Speaking of reviews, I should probably start writing up the backlog. Onwards:
In which Chantaal is all over the place because Omens was so all over the place...
Apparently there are tons of people disappointed in how little paranormal action there was in this novel, and I feel bit sorry for anyone who had high hopes for more of the same Kelley Armstrong fare. I’ve read maybe one other book of hers, so I went into Omens with no expectations, and found to be just alright.
The novel opens with Olivia Taylor-Jones learning that she is adopted, and her parents were serial killers. The idea of it intrigued me from the start, but as we start to follow Olivia in the days after she learns this news, she began to annoy me. So much. Look Olivia, I know it’s got to rock your world to get news like that, and sure, having basically no support from your mother has got to suck, but turning around and running away from everyone and everything you know just because you’ve got to “figure things out” on your own? It smacks of irrationality and immaturity, and I nearly didn’t finish the book because I was so irritated.
So much of Olivia’s reactions from the start felt like they had to happen in a certain way (personality and logic be damned!) just to get Olivia to the small town of Cainsville, and it didn’t leave me with much hope for the rest of the novel.
I’m glad I left some of that hope by the wayside, because the rest of it wasn’t too much better. Olivia reluctantly teams up with Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer she meets in Cainsville. (There are some interesting moments between the two, and I have to say I’m glad there wasn’t a huge rush into romance in this first novel.) Team Olivia and Gabriel are working on her birth mother’s request, trying to prove that they couldn’t have possibly killed that one couple (and then maybe the rest of the murders will fall by the wayside?). Their investigation is interesting and moves at a rapid pace, but then veers off in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION WHAT EVEN and I wondered if Armstrong just couldn’t decide on a single idea or genre and wanted to give up again. But I’d already read too much, and finished it up.
What little paranormal nods the novel had were interesting, but not nearly enough to get me committed to reading the second novel. Maybe I’ll just go back and read some more of the Women of the Otherworld novels and see what the fuss is all about.
In which Chantaal is all over the place because Omens was so all over the place...
Apparently there are tons of people disappointed in how little paranormal action there was in this novel, and I feel bit sorry for anyone who had high hopes for more of the same Kelley Armstrong fare. I’ve read maybe one other book of hers, so I went into Omens with no expectations, and found to be just alright.
The novel opens with Olivia Taylor-Jones learning that she is adopted, and her parents were serial killers. The idea of it intrigued me from the start, but as we start to follow Olivia in the days after she learns this news, she began to annoy me. So much. Look Olivia, I know it’s got to rock your world to get news like that, and sure, having basically no support from your mother has got to suck, but turning around and running away from everyone and everything you know just because you’ve got to “figure things out” on your own? It smacks of irrationality and immaturity, and I nearly didn’t finish the book because I was so irritated.
So much of Olivia’s reactions from the start felt like they had to happen in a certain way (personality and logic be damned!) just to get Olivia to the small town of Cainsville, and it didn’t leave me with much hope for the rest of the novel.
I’m glad I left some of that hope by the wayside, because the rest of it wasn’t too much better. Olivia reluctantly teams up with Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer she meets in Cainsville. (There are some interesting moments between the two, and I have to say I’m glad there wasn’t a huge rush into romance in this first novel.) Team Olivia and Gabriel are working on her birth mother’s request, trying to prove that they couldn’t have possibly killed that one couple (and then maybe the rest of the murders will fall by the wayside?). Their investigation is interesting and moves at a rapid pace, but then veers off in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION WHAT EVEN and I wondered if Armstrong just couldn’t decide on a single idea or genre and wanted to give up again. But I’d already read too much, and finished it up.
What little paranormal nods the novel had were interesting, but not nearly enough to get me committed to reading the second novel. Maybe I’ll just go back and read some more of the Women of the Otherworld novels and see what the fuss is all about.
Well, okay, yeah. Now I get why the entire first page of reviews for this is filled with gifs and exclamation points and fancasting. (I kept picturing Charlie Hunnam and Kacey Rohl.)
Gaaaaahhh. Stupid demigods and your stupid, wonderfully good, brave hearts. Another year to go. ;_;
PS. FRANK WHAT UP
PS. FRANK WHAT UP
