Maria Lima's "Matters of the Blood", #53
May. 29th, 2010 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatKeira Kelly, half-breed descendant of a powerful paranormal family has chosen to live apart from her clan and among humans in the Texas Hill Country. When she experiences a prophetic vision that foretells the vicious murder of her human cousin, Marty Nelson, she vows to determine the truth. Keira begins to uncover long-concealed secrets and risks alienating everyone she knows, from her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson, to the enigmatic Adam Walker, once a friendly acquaintance and now much more!
Review: Bad. No other way to say it. I barely finished it, it's so bad. Keira is a very unlikable Mary Sue. Why? Let's see: she is beautiful, so rich she doesn't even have to think of working so she doesn't, she's well-traveled, immortal, she has special powers - but so vague that the author can slap anything on her and it can stick - and every man falls for her hard. She had one duty, just one: take care of her cousin Marty, the only mortal in her family. And still, Marty got killed because she couldn't be bothered to check on him regularly or even warn him or contact the rest of her family when she started having dreams about him getting killed. Because, you know, he annoyed her. Right.
And that's not all. The men in this book. Except for Tucker, Keira's brother, and Adam, the Marty Sue of this book - seriously, he's gorgeous, rich, young and immortal vampire who moved his whole clan to this little backwater tiny town just to be with Keira because he fell so hard for her within just a few weeks in London - they are all weak to pathetic, nasty or downright bad guys. That allows Keira to shine and prove how independent she is and...
The only saving grace? The possibility of some kind of a relationship between Tucker and Adam's friend Niko - those two together are much more interesting than Keira and Adam could ever be.
Review: Bad. No other way to say it. I barely finished it, it's so bad. Keira is a very unlikable Mary Sue. Why? Let's see: she is beautiful, so rich she doesn't even have to think of working so she doesn't, she's well-traveled, immortal, she has special powers - but so vague that the author can slap anything on her and it can stick - and every man falls for her hard. She had one duty, just one: take care of her cousin Marty, the only mortal in her family. And still, Marty got killed because she couldn't be bothered to check on him regularly or even warn him or contact the rest of her family when she started having dreams about him getting killed. Because, you know, he annoyed her. Right.
And that's not all. The men in this book. Except for Tucker, Keira's brother, and Adam, the Marty Sue of this book - seriously, he's gorgeous, rich, young and immortal vampire who moved his whole clan to this little backwater tiny town just to be with Keira because he fell so hard for her within just a few weeks in London - they are all weak to pathetic, nasty or downright bad guys. That allows Keira to shine and prove how independent she is and...
The only saving grace? The possibility of some kind of a relationship between Tucker and Adam's friend Niko - those two together are much more interesting than Keira and Adam could ever be.
