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Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

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adventurous dark fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.5

I’m disappointed. I like urban fantasy and really wanted to like this book but there were too many issues for me to give it 2 stars. I give it an extra 1/2 of a star because it had all the ingredients for a good story but the execution was too choppy and sloppy. I finished the book with so many questions, and looked up wiki pages about the story and characters. The wikis were clearer than the book itself.

Every character felt flat and boring, and I think it may be because there are so many of them and not enough time/pages to really develop them beyond the most basic personalities. I didn’t care about any of them.

The whole Nikolaos thing was infuriating. She hired (well, forced) a vampire slayer to find out who is slaying vampires. Why? Did I miss something? And then she meddles and interferes with Anita’s efforts to solve the case. After a long slog through this book, and Anita going on and on about the terror she felt towards Nikolaos, the final fight scene was pathetic. Two humans against a 1000 y.o. mega-powerful vampire, over as quickly as it started. Okay.
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