Helpful Score: 1
Felix Castor is sort of a British "Harry Dresden". He sees dead people.
I'm looking forward to reading the next book.
I'm looking forward to reading the next book.
Not very interesting in the first 100 pages--Carey just goes on and on and on and says nothing, and it is way too long--500 pages? ridicolus!
SUSAN S. (susieqmillsacoustics) -
This book was pretty good. It had alot of twists and turns in a multi-layered mystery. It had some intense reading all throughout and all sorts of supernatural creatures, but I was disappointed in the end. It wrapped up the mystery itself well, but left other things with vague explanations, at best. It is also written, it seemed to me, as more of a "guy story". I did enjoy reading it, but felt the ending was stupid, for lack of a better description, and I was not left wanting to read anymore of this character.
Very good; looking forward the next in the series.
This book has sat on my shelf forever and a day. I finally picked it up and started reading to only put it down and ask WTF? It was a tad boring. I picked it up again because I wanted to give it a chance and got around to 70 pages and once again fell asleep while reading it. I woke up the next day grabbed another book and decided to try and read that one, but felt guilty and put it down. I had to take my daughter to a doctors appointment so I took it with me and began to feel a little better about life and my finishing the book. Then I hit a slow spot, but kept reading. I went to get in bed last night opened up the book and began to read. It hit page 154 and said "Fuck This"! I closed it for good and went on to the other book (just so you know that one's proving to be less than stellar as well).
So why could I not finish this?
1. The main issue. This book was slower than Methuselah's grandmother running uphill in molasses. (for those of you who have no idea who Methuselah is, he's the man reported to have lived the longest at the age of 969 in the Hebrew Bible). I honestly don't have issues with slow parts in books, but this took the cake. I've never read anything like this before. It got going and then all of a sudden it halted.
2. The characters were a bit one dimensional. I felt absolutely nothing for them and couldn't give a care if they were eaten by a demon or fell into the Thames and drowned.
3. Half the time I had no idea what the hell Felix, the MC was saying. I normally have no issues with how a character speaks who is from the UK, but this time I was reading phrases and sentences that baffled me. Several time I had to stop and go Google the phrase. After about the 15th time it became more like work and not a pleasure read.
Maybe I will pick this up a little later and try again, but for now it's a no go for me.
So why could I not finish this?
1. The main issue. This book was slower than Methuselah's grandmother running uphill in molasses. (for those of you who have no idea who Methuselah is, he's the man reported to have lived the longest at the age of 969 in the Hebrew Bible). I honestly don't have issues with slow parts in books, but this took the cake. I've never read anything like this before. It got going and then all of a sudden it halted.
2. The characters were a bit one dimensional. I felt absolutely nothing for them and couldn't give a care if they were eaten by a demon or fell into the Thames and drowned.
3. Half the time I had no idea what the hell Felix, the MC was saying. I normally have no issues with how a character speaks who is from the UK, but this time I was reading phrases and sentences that baffled me. Several time I had to stop and go Google the phrase. After about the 15th time it became more like work and not a pleasure read.
Maybe I will pick this up a little later and try again, but for now it's a no go for me.
