books_plan_create's review
4.0
All I can say about this volume is wow. While some of the dry wit and humor that I love so much about this series seems to be missing, I did still very much enjoy the book. Especially the Special Circle of Hell for e-book pirates :) That was genius in my opinion.
mooncxrx's review
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia
miii_'s review
4.0
So in now time I read the 7th book...*exhausted*
More creativity I ever read? No! BUT! Sometimes less is more!
I like Rainy more ( xD did I ever wrote her name right?) so the story is a bit wittier and her sister is still stupid and a cry baby like ever...
At first I thought...Ok how could she trust Birdy (Bertha) ? But I just said to myself...If you try to understand the book with common sense you going never understand these books...So I just read.
To be honest XD I like the author’s idea of hades! I start to laugh while I read the Wi-Fi and amazon and everything stuff...Nice way to interpret the death! Also that Hades is a gamer nerd is a great idea! Race is also really funny! So really funny book with a lot of good ideas!
But too much everything creativity is also annoying...the author put nearly everything in the 8 books what you can do...Not that the story of the books is great, because of that it is a bit confusing and some books are not necessary to read!
Really that’s too much and let’s be honest a bit common sense every fantasy book needs...So a bit more realistic and the book would be a bit better. But I like the book much more than the last one or the 5th...
Ah, but the connections with Justin Bieber and stuff I don’t have problem with, because its ok sometimes it’s even funny XD Sometimes not necessary but I think that’s not the main problem why the books are a bit boring sometimes…
Still I would not recommend XXD a buy if you've less free time.
ps.
I love hercules :B good choice!
More creativity I ever read? No! BUT! Sometimes less is more!
I like Rainy more ( xD did I ever wrote her name right?) so the story is a bit wittier and her sister is still stupid and a cry baby like ever...
At first I thought...Ok how could she trust Birdy (Bertha) ? But I just said to myself...If you try to understand the book with common sense you going never understand these books...So I just read.
To be honest XD I like the author’s idea of hades! I start to laugh while I read the Wi-Fi and amazon and everything stuff...Nice way to interpret the death! Also that Hades is a gamer nerd is a great idea! Race is also really funny! So really funny book with a lot of good ideas!
But too much everything creativity is also annoying...the author put nearly everything in the 8 books what you can do...Not that the story of the books is great, because of that it is a bit confusing and some books are not necessary to read!
Really that’s too much and let’s be honest a bit common sense every fantasy book needs...So a bit more realistic and the book would be a bit better. But I like the book much more than the last one or the 5th...
Ah, but the connections with Justin Bieber and stuff I don’t have problem with, because its ok sometimes it’s even funny XD Sometimes not necessary but I think that’s not the main problem why the books are a bit boring sometimes…
Still I would not recommend XXD a buy if you've less free time.
ps.
I love hercules :B good choice!
mardr216's review
4.0
This is Book #7 in the Blood Coven Vampire series. This time Sunny and Magnus are in danger and have run off together, which leaves Rayne in charge of finding and bringing them back by assignment of Slayer Inc. While still trying to find a way to get rid of Pyrus and not have the coven thrown out of the Vampire Consortium. As always thought nothing goes like planned and they find themselves worse then how they started. Through out the book Rayne is faced with more and more difficult decisions that just don’t seem to go the right way. I like that Jareth gets to reconnect with his past and we get more insight to his closed up and detached nature. With everything going on now, apart from the vampires and faeries the author also brings in some Greek mythology in the mix which is interesting and adds another twist to the story. I enjoyed the authors take on Hell and the different places or sections to it. I’m not sure what to think about the ending its a big turn of events but I’m intrigued as to what Sunny and Rayne will do with this new opportunity. Overall it was an easy read with good pace and I will be looking forward to Book #8.
awexis's review
2.0
So Mitch made me guilty over this book. >:( Why did I gave it a 4 star? Honestly, I don't remember. :P So I'm bumping it by two stars when I REMEMBER THAT IN THE END, they'll be back from the start as if nothing happened just so Sunny wouldn't die and so and so. WTF is that, I don't know. But yes, I'll still read the next book. Just because I already started the series and I'm bound to finish it. >:(
rayne's review
3.0
I did enjoy this book - the ending leaves so much open. A lot happens in this & a lot doesn't if that makes sense. The setting is there to just take it that one step further but it just doesn't seem to reach there for me. It will be interesting to see how this all winds up.
dtaylorbooks's review
4.0
If one just cursorily glanced at one of Mari’s Blood Coven books they would probably think it another insipid human/vampire love story containing characters with horrible names, filled to the brim with clichés and has ultimately run on far longer than what it should have. They would probably think the plots absolutely ridiculous, the characters overtly emo and the books trying far too hard for their own good.
Those people, I’d say, couldn’t read their way out of a paper bag.
No, Mari’s Blood Coven series isn’t something more than what’s already out there. It isn’t better than all of its like-minded brethren. It’s a SATIRE. This series is ripping into the over-bloated anus of its vampire siblings that, unlike it, take themselves far too seriously. Mari has taken every popular element in YA vampire fiction (and beyond) and blown it so far out of control that it is incredibly ridiculous. You know it, she knows it, the characters know it. And that’s why it’s so incredibly phenomenal. It rips on itself from the names of the characters (Sunny and Rayne, really?) to the overtly emo, safe and PC vampires to the polar opposite siblings and so much more. It’s all there, exaggerated to the extreme and it makes this series all the better.
SOUL BOUND, book number seven in the Blood Coven vampires series, takes Sunny and Rayne on another cross-country trip because Sunny and her vampire boyfriend Magnus had to flee. Unfortunately for Rayne, she’s been contracted by Slayer, Inc. to lock down her sister and boyfriend-in-law and bring them in for a Big Bad hell-bent on world domination. Throw in massive amounts of emo-angsting from Depeche Mode wannabe, Jareth, and Rayne’s ultimate battle between side one and side two of the same cassette and you’re bound to get rocketed from one side of the book to the other.
Mari’s writing, from her too-cool-for-school enormously far-reaching lingo to her expertly placed references to old school pop culture meant to play into minds older than today’s teens (which further confirms my belief that these books are meant for an older, more nostalgic crowd that harkens to a love of all things Buffy and REAL vampires like The Lost Boys who grew up in times further past than the last ten years) had me squealing with delight as I read, hitching onto those subtle mentions or contrived lingo that knew it was over the top and totally played into it.
You have to read these books for what they are: silly nonsense. It’s not trying to be an epic love story filled with action and adventure that has everyone but it laughing. It knows its place and its built itself a nice home in the Silly Suburbs. And I love it.
Rayne, of course, is still my favorite walking contradiction, being both a slayer and a vampire. Her demeanor has softened over the course of the books thanks to emo Jareth but on the adverse side Sunny’s toughened out. She’s not the giggly little girl she used to be and, loathe as I am to say it, she’s absolutely grown on me. I’ve read this series heinously out of order and even skipped a few books (mainly the ones in Sunny’s POV) and I may now need to go back and fill in the gaps. I’m more tolerable of Sunny now and I’d like to see how she got here. Really I’ve only been reading the Blood Coven series from Rayne’s eyes except for BOYS THAT BITE and now, all this time later, I do feel like I’ve missed something; Sunny’s growth out being an insipid little pop tart. I think it’s high time I saw that.
SOUL BOUND is yet another awesome addition to a fantastic series that’s as silly as can get but still sates an appetite for fast-paced adventure and maybe a little romance thrown in. I think even if you’re a fan of the books Blood Coven is satirizing you’ll still like this series. Just go into it knowing it’s supposed to be exactly what you’re reading and you’ll be okay. I just don’t get people that read something like this and actually think it’s meant to be serious. Humorless people, I swear.
Those people, I’d say, couldn’t read their way out of a paper bag.
No, Mari’s Blood Coven series isn’t something more than what’s already out there. It isn’t better than all of its like-minded brethren. It’s a SATIRE. This series is ripping into the over-bloated anus of its vampire siblings that, unlike it, take themselves far too seriously. Mari has taken every popular element in YA vampire fiction (and beyond) and blown it so far out of control that it is incredibly ridiculous. You know it, she knows it, the characters know it. And that’s why it’s so incredibly phenomenal. It rips on itself from the names of the characters (Sunny and Rayne, really?) to the overtly emo, safe and PC vampires to the polar opposite siblings and so much more. It’s all there, exaggerated to the extreme and it makes this series all the better.
SOUL BOUND, book number seven in the Blood Coven vampires series, takes Sunny and Rayne on another cross-country trip because Sunny and her vampire boyfriend Magnus had to flee. Unfortunately for Rayne, she’s been contracted by Slayer, Inc. to lock down her sister and boyfriend-in-law and bring them in for a Big Bad hell-bent on world domination. Throw in massive amounts of emo-angsting from Depeche Mode wannabe, Jareth, and Rayne’s ultimate battle between side one and side two of the same cassette and you’re bound to get rocketed from one side of the book to the other.
Mari’s writing, from her too-cool-for-school enormously far-reaching lingo to her expertly placed references to old school pop culture meant to play into minds older than today’s teens (which further confirms my belief that these books are meant for an older, more nostalgic crowd that harkens to a love of all things Buffy and REAL vampires like The Lost Boys who grew up in times further past than the last ten years) had me squealing with delight as I read, hitching onto those subtle mentions or contrived lingo that knew it was over the top and totally played into it.
You have to read these books for what they are: silly nonsense. It’s not trying to be an epic love story filled with action and adventure that has everyone but it laughing. It knows its place and its built itself a nice home in the Silly Suburbs. And I love it.
Rayne, of course, is still my favorite walking contradiction, being both a slayer and a vampire. Her demeanor has softened over the course of the books thanks to emo Jareth but on the adverse side Sunny’s toughened out. She’s not the giggly little girl she used to be and, loathe as I am to say it, she’s absolutely grown on me. I’ve read this series heinously out of order and even skipped a few books (mainly the ones in Sunny’s POV) and I may now need to go back and fill in the gaps. I’m more tolerable of Sunny now and I’d like to see how she got here. Really I’ve only been reading the Blood Coven series from Rayne’s eyes except for BOYS THAT BITE and now, all this time later, I do feel like I’ve missed something; Sunny’s growth out being an insipid little pop tart. I think it’s high time I saw that.
SOUL BOUND is yet another awesome addition to a fantastic series that’s as silly as can get but still sates an appetite for fast-paced adventure and maybe a little romance thrown in. I think even if you’re a fan of the books Blood Coven is satirizing you’ll still like this series. Just go into it knowing it’s supposed to be exactly what you’re reading and you’ll be okay. I just don’t get people that read something like this and actually think it’s meant to be serious. Humorless people, I swear.