chllybrd's review against another edition
4.0
Reviewed by http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/
I was seriously dying to read this. After the cliff hanger in book 3 FATAL CIRCLE, ARCANE CIRCLE Couldn't come out fast enough in my opinion. Once again, Don't try to jump into this series in book 4 you must start from the beginning and pick up book 1 FATAL CIRCLE.
In ARCANE CIRCLE you will get some shocking surprises and quite a bit of answers you might have been wondering about. Persephone, Johnny and Menessos seem to be working super well together despite past tensions and conflicts. Some new characters and Allies are introduced. Johnny finally gets a few answers about where his tattoos came from. Persephone has to do some soul searching like usual and her fellow witches still have there broomsticks up there butts. I cant wait to see what the events in ARCANE CIRCLE will bring for the next book, I picked up this book and read it until it was done and was never bored with it.
I was seriously dying to read this. After the cliff hanger in book 3 FATAL CIRCLE, ARCANE CIRCLE Couldn't come out fast enough in my opinion. Once again, Don't try to jump into this series in book 4 you must start from the beginning and pick up book 1 FATAL CIRCLE.
In ARCANE CIRCLE you will get some shocking surprises and quite a bit of answers you might have been wondering about. Persephone, Johnny and Menessos seem to be working super well together despite past tensions and conflicts. Some new characters and Allies are introduced. Johnny finally gets a few answers about where his tattoos came from. Persephone has to do some soul searching like usual and her fellow witches still have there broomsticks up there butts. I cant wait to see what the events in ARCANE CIRCLE will bring for the next book, I picked up this book and read it until it was done and was never bored with it.
alexiachantel's review against another edition
4.0
The Persephone Alcmedi series keeps getting better and better with each book! Robertson has created characters that stay with you even after you have put the book down.
The witches want her out of the picture. They have some power behind them, enough to worry Seph and her grandma. Not to mention the two men in Seph’s life. She needs them both, yet circumstances have changed.
Menessos died at her hand, now he lives by her blood. Is this a step towards a deeper connection between Menessos and Seph? He sure hopes so. After all she knows his secrets and he sees in her someone he loves.
Johnny is the Domn Lup, or he will be confirmed king as soon as he gets the nod from the Romanian head honcho. There is much more to the shifters than we know, Robertson gives pieces of information here and there but you are left with the feeling that there is more. Seph makes promises and gives Johnny all she can. Is it enough to keep him in her life?
Arcane Circle is awesome! A great addition to the series, bring on book five!
*copy courtesy of publisher
Separate review posted at Reading Between the Wines:
http://readingbetweenthewinesbookclub.blogspot.com/2013/01/review-arcane-circle-by-linda-robertson.html
The witches want her out of the picture. They have some power behind them, enough to worry Seph and her grandma. Not to mention the two men in Seph’s life. She needs them both, yet circumstances have changed.
Menessos died at her hand, now he lives by her blood. Is this a step towards a deeper connection between Menessos and Seph? He sure hopes so. After all she knows his secrets and he sees in her someone he loves.
Johnny is the Domn Lup, or he will be confirmed king as soon as he gets the nod from the Romanian head honcho. There is much more to the shifters than we know, Robertson gives pieces of information here and there but you are left with the feeling that there is more. Seph makes promises and gives Johnny all she can. Is it enough to keep him in her life?
Arcane Circle is awesome! A great addition to the series, bring on book five!
*copy courtesy of publisher
Separate review posted at Reading Between the Wines:
http://readingbetweenthewinesbookclub.blogspot.com/2013/01/review-arcane-circle-by-linda-robertson.html
drey72's review against another edition
4.0
Well, I guess the focus must’ve been on Seph for too long, because Arcane Circle features a lot of Johnny. Then again, if he’s to take on the mantle of Domn Lup, it’s not going to happen like magic, overnight. Which makes me wonder if we get one focused on Menessos? Then again, he’s already a big scary vampire…
Anyway. Johnny. Way back when, in Johnny’s past, he got tattooed. They’re really cool and all, but somehow the tattoos locked up his magic — magic he needs to access, especially if he’s Domn Lup. So the next order of business is to find out how to unlock the magic from the tattoos.
Easier said than done, especially when some gender-backwards werewolf ruling body appears to check Seph out, and manage to piss off (almost) everyone while they’re there. Then again, it’s hard to not get pissed when one is kidnapped, beaten, and threatened with rape by a bunch of drunk-on-power chauvinists. And if all of that isn’t enough to deal with, wait’ll you find out who tattooed Johnny. Seph is so not a happy camper in this installment!
But she’s a big girl, and big girls don’t cry (or so Fergie says). So she pulls up her big girl panties and heads out to wage war against those who’d harm her and hers — which happens to encompass a heck of a lot more people every day, by the way.
Arcane Circle expands even more on the groundwork of the previous novels, and I’m very happy with the character and plot growth contained within its pages. I’m looking forward to more, even as I dread the day I run out of Seph books to inhale. Give this series a whirl if you haven’t already, especially if you’re a fan of Urban Fantasy with kick-ass heroines who won’t stoop to the level of the villains. Start with Vicious Circle.
drey’s rating: Excellent!
Anyway. Johnny. Way back when, in Johnny’s past, he got tattooed. They’re really cool and all, but somehow the tattoos locked up his magic — magic he needs to access, especially if he’s Domn Lup. So the next order of business is to find out how to unlock the magic from the tattoos.
Easier said than done, especially when some gender-backwards werewolf ruling body appears to check Seph out, and manage to piss off (almost) everyone while they’re there. Then again, it’s hard to not get pissed when one is kidnapped, beaten, and threatened with rape by a bunch of drunk-on-power chauvinists. And if all of that isn’t enough to deal with, wait’ll you find out who tattooed Johnny. Seph is so not a happy camper in this installment!
But she’s a big girl, and big girls don’t cry (or so Fergie says). So she pulls up her big girl panties and heads out to wage war against those who’d harm her and hers — which happens to encompass a heck of a lot more people every day, by the way.
Arcane Circle expands even more on the groundwork of the previous novels, and I’m very happy with the character and plot growth contained within its pages. I’m looking forward to more, even as I dread the day I run out of Seph books to inhale. Give this series a whirl if you haven’t already, especially if you’re a fan of Urban Fantasy with kick-ass heroines who won’t stoop to the level of the villains. Start with Vicious Circle.
drey’s rating: Excellent!
loveinpanels's review against another edition
4.0
Another solid effort, even if this one didn't have the clear central plotline that the previous three had. Robertson may be beginning to suffer Charlaine Harris syndrome: too many subplots and characters to manage at once.
Looking forward to the next book. Hopefully she'll expound on the love triangle!
Looking forward to the next book. Hopefully she'll expound on the love triangle!
lessharper's review
4.0
This book ends exactly where the last ended.
The plotting is good and less of the action and drama is telegraphed too early. In this one you know who-done-it early on and who the major baddies will be, the surprises are what the baddies do. For the first time a bit of action is a true surprise. That the head honcho were (Rege) and his henchmen are misogynistic bastards isn't a surprise and it borders on annoying, still this is used to the good guy's advantage.
This brings up some interesting writing around Seph's fear of abandonment among other things. Personally I'm not looking forward to the addition of this character in the future books- she's a self centered a-hole.
The plotting is good and less of the action and drama is telegraphed too early. In this one you know who-done-it early on and who the major baddies will be, the surprises are what the baddies do. For the first time a bit of action
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We're introduced to Seph's mom- who is a tattoo artist and the one who bound Johnny's power. Oh, she also had another kid with her boyfriend who is in jail in Calli for aggravated assault. Seph's mom is kind of an asshole. She get's shot and loses her right arm- her karmic payment for what she did to Johnny.
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