Book Review: Key to Conflict

CarlaMay 31st, 2007 - 06:37:24

Fast paced, entertaining read. Fans of Robert Aspirin, Laurel Hamilton, etc., will enjoy the humor and well developed characters. Lots of fun escapism. Main character is very conflicted within herself which gives her a good dimensional quality and keeps her from being a 'super hero' heroine. She's human, makes mistakes, uses less than stellar judgement, but you sympathize with her instead of scoffing. The old word vampires and all the characters have their own distinctive voices - there are no cookie cutter characters brought in for filler. Everyone has a place and a voice, giving a lot of substance to a solid story. Men and women will enjoy it. Just enough sex to be hot, but not gratuitous or a bodice ripper by any means and certainly not the main point of the story.

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EdenDec 9th, 2007 - 17:40:11

I'm sorry but did you read the same book I did?

Character development was woefully lacking, Gillian being the worst of the bunch as a complete Mary Sue (so cuuuuute and adorable but oh so brave!!!). The other characters, well Tanis, Aleksei and Dante weren't so bad but the other Vampires had no personality beyond being ancient, gorgeous and awesome. The dialogue was mediocre. The plot was actually interesting but it got totally bogged down in useless explanations of everything you needed and didn't need to know. There's a little rule called 'show, don't tell' and Ms. Gryphon could NOT stop breaking it. Oh and the Dracula angle needed a ton of work because more than halfway through the book, I still had no idea why he was oh so scary and bad beyond Aleksei and the rest of them saying that Dracula was oh so scary and bad.

I would NEVER recommend this book to anyone.

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