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vikingwolf's review
3.0
I have only read the bonus novella Fairy Tale so far. I'll amend the review if I read the other books.
Nate is a rich wizard who likes to drink and sleep around. He's at an auction to buy a book being sold by a friend of his father and it may contain magic. All hell breaks loose as someone else steals the book and Nate has to track it down.
I liked the actual story and the action in this book and I think that the series has a lot of potential because of it. I very much liked Gunnar the FBI werewolf, who was a fun character. My problem is that I really don't like the MC. Nate is rude, arrogant and vain. Having an MC who loves himself and thinks everyone else should too was annoying and did spoil my enjoyment of the story. At this moment in time it is unlikely that I would read on with the series.
Nate is a rich wizard who likes to drink and sleep around. He's at an auction to buy a book being sold by a friend of his father and it may contain magic. All hell breaks loose as someone else steals the book and Nate has to track it down.
I liked the actual story and the action in this book and I think that the series has a lot of potential because of it. I very much liked Gunnar the FBI werewolf, who was a fun character. My problem is that I really don't like the MC. Nate is rude, arrogant and vain. Having an MC who loves himself and thinks everyone else should too was annoying and did spoil my enjoyment of the story. At this moment in time it is unlikely that I would read on with the series.
dragonfly60's review
5.0
Loved it
The mantle of Jim Butcher has been passed! I like this series very much and can't wait for the next installment!
The mantle of Jim Butcher has been passed! I like this series very much and can't wait for the next installment!
errantdreams's review
2.0
The character does so many contradictory things. He wants to keep the police out of things, then baits them for fun. He also seems to be a prodigy at nearly everything. He’d be a male Mary Sue except for the fact that he does occasionally suffer the consequences of his actions. There are demons who leave Nate alive pretty much ‘just because’ which is the biggest “uh, I dunno” a writer can use. Someone grabs him by his bloody jacket just after he threw it away. There are a lot of mistakes like this throughout the series.
In book two, there are finally a few good quotes, although overall the dialogue was pretty terrible. Also, I think that when your new girlfriend threatens to chase you down and beat you up if you don’t tell her every last one of your secrets in three days, then maybe you shouldn’t go out with her. I also find it difficult to believe that the author has ever met a woman, given how he depicts them.
Anyway, it probably now seems as though I should have given an even lower score given how I feel about all of the above. But the truth is, there’s an awful lot of creativity in here. There’s plenty of exciting adventure. The author clearly has a lot of talent to work with, and I very much hope he’ll put some effort into acquiring the kind of skill that will hone that talent to a fantastic shine. I also hope he’ll learn that women are just people too, but we’ll see.
Enjoy purple prose and weird narrative? Cool, march right ahead. Can’t take how the author approaches women and can’t enjoy the weirdness? Slide on past.
My original review on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/11/review-nate-temple-shayne-silvers/
In book two, there are finally a few good quotes, although overall the dialogue was pretty terrible. Also, I think that when your new girlfriend threatens to chase you down and beat you up if you don’t tell her every last one of your secrets in three days, then maybe you shouldn’t go out with her. I also find it difficult to believe that the author has ever met a woman, given how he depicts them.
Anyway, it probably now seems as though I should have given an even lower score given how I feel about all of the above. But the truth is, there’s an awful lot of creativity in here. There’s plenty of exciting adventure. The author clearly has a lot of talent to work with, and I very much hope he’ll put some effort into acquiring the kind of skill that will hone that talent to a fantastic shine. I also hope he’ll learn that women are just people too, but we’ll see.
Enjoy purple prose and weird narrative? Cool, march right ahead. Can’t take how the author approaches women and can’t enjoy the weirdness? Slide on past.
My original review on my site: http://www.errantdreams.com/2016/11/review-nate-temple-shayne-silvers/
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