Pippa M. (freakazoidP) reviewed The Damned (Vampire Huntress Legend, Bk 6) on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
okay...I have issues with this book.The mythology is interesting (biblical plus vampires and legions of hell spawn) The missions and the different casts of vamps, spiritualists, etc are well drawn. I came into this series by reading this book first, which maybe I shouldn't have.The story isn't difficualt to follow, but many of the histories and details are lost if you don't already know them. But, the writing style.OH NO!!!
These characters are from the ghetto.And you can tell.I don't have a clue what they are saying half the time.I am severely dissapointed the author felt she needed to write in this way to get an audience.Well, I won't be reading any more of her books. It hurts my head.I don't know when something is supposed to be funny, or scary.Are there any nuances in ghetto speak?This is more over the edge than ebonics.Soem Mexican littered in there and a wholke lotta of "sistah's and brothers" I just don't understand.
While this premise has promise, unless you speak like an illiterate arse, you won't understand this book, and I wouldn't suggest you try.
These characters are from the ghetto.And you can tell.I don't have a clue what they are saying half the time.I am severely dissapointed the author felt she needed to write in this way to get an audience.Well, I won't be reading any more of her books. It hurts my head.I don't know when something is supposed to be funny, or scary.Are there any nuances in ghetto speak?This is more over the edge than ebonics.Soem Mexican littered in there and a wholke lotta of "sistah's and brothers" I just don't understand.
While this premise has promise, unless you speak like an illiterate arse, you won't understand this book, and I wouldn't suggest you try.
Damali Richards knows all about a blood rush. The kind that happened when she went skin-to-skin with former vampire Carlos Rivera. Or the kind that happened on the streete of Philadelphia, when her crew took out the devils own. Now Damali, Carlos, and the Guardian team are recovering in the arazona desert, trying to hold it all together and find out just how much love, andhow much war, they still have to make...until the deamonconsortLilith changes everything.
AWESOME Vampire novel!
I've enjoyed this series up to this point. However, the first quarter of the book (as far as I've managed to get so far), is a rehash of old issues between the two main characters that were *resolved* in Bk 5. I put the book down and started reading something else. Maybe I'll get back to it some day. It's just tiresome reading the same old stuff again from the last book in the "new" book.
