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3.0
I enjoyed [b:To Kill A Warlock|13608100|To Kill A Warlock (Dulcie O'Neil, #1)|H.P. Mallory|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1334956305s/13608100.jpg|13410572] more than the rest of the series. (I've read up through book five now.) Individually they are all alright. Each one focuses more and more tightly on Dulcie, which I think is too bad. I know she is the main character, but she isn't the centre of the world(s). She is like Netherworld crack apparently. All beings lust after her. She almost gets raped more times than I can count. The leaders of The Resistance listen to, and even seem to take orders from her, as soon as she makes herself known. She is the daughter of someone important, etc. As the series goes on the books just seem to spiral closer and closer to her and therefore allow for less and less development of the other characters. Though I did love a few of them. Bram is AWESOME and I really wanted him to find some happiness for himself. He was my favourite character by far. Knight is darned sexy all the way around. Dia is a hoot and Sam is Dulcie's Samwise Gamgee. You can't help but like her.
The books do seem to be getting shorter with each new one and ending on sharper and sharper cliffhangers. Honestly, toward the end I started to feel like they weren't even complete books. One bleeds too easily from one to the other. Plus, each book recaps each of the previous ones. So, book one was recapped in book two, books one and two were recapped in book three, books one two and three were covered in book four. You get the point. It got really repetitive and took up a lot of space in the already short books.
The books do seem to be getting shorter with each new one and ending on sharper and sharper cliffhangers. Honestly, toward the end I started to feel like they weren't even complete books. One bleeds too easily from one to the other. Plus, each book recaps each of the previous ones. So, book one was recapped in book two, books one and two were recapped in book three, books one two and three were covered in book four. You get the point. It got really repetitive and took up a lot of space in the already short books.
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