andimontgomery's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars. This is one of my favorite paranormal series, and it just keeps getting better. Evy Stone reminds me very much of another of my favorite heroines, Gin Blanco, of Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin series. She's physically tough and frequently gets into life-or-death scrapes, but she is also kind and generous and willing to do anything for her friends. For that, I love her.
While some series become stale over time, this one most definitely has not. While it started a bit slowly, it was never boring. A third of the way into the story, it really kicked into high gear, and I had trouble putting it down after that!
The supporting characters also make this series special. They are so vividly drawn and real. Flawed but forgiving, and worth being forgiven for their OWN failings. I'm so glad Phin had a part in this book - I really like his character! And Wyatt is becoming one of my all-time favorite male leads. He loves and cherishes Evy so much, and his love often keeps her going in the worst of situations.
This book was brilliantly written. There were even a few snippets from Evy's past that were gripping. I have to warn you that it contained some disturbingly violent scenes (similar to Three Days to Dead). While they were difficult to read, they really made me see and feel what was happening, and they also made me cheer for Evy all the more for her strength and courage.
If you haven't read this series yet, I highly recommend it! This book ended with a partial resolution, and I can't wait for its conclusion!
While some series become stale over time, this one most definitely has not. While it started a bit slowly, it was never boring. A third of the way into the story, it really kicked into high gear, and I had trouble putting it down after that!
The supporting characters also make this series special. They are so vividly drawn and real. Flawed but forgiving, and worth being forgiven for their OWN failings. I'm so glad Phin had a part in this book - I really like his character! And Wyatt is becoming one of my all-time favorite male leads. He loves and cherishes Evy so much, and his love often keeps her going in the worst of situations.
This book was brilliantly written. There were even a few snippets from Evy's past that were gripping. I have to warn you that it contained some disturbingly violent scenes (similar to Three Days to Dead). While they were difficult to read, they really made me see and feel what was happening, and they also made me cheer for Evy all the more for her strength and courage.
If you haven't read this series yet, I highly recommend it! This book ended with a partial resolution, and I can't wait for its conclusion!
ac223's review against another edition
3.0
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This book has the best rating, but it just wasn't as good as the others to me. Evy of course is tortured, dies, and comes back to life. (again) Starting to see a pattern here. She and Wyatt are an all out couple now, so there goes my hope for Phin. The triads are slowly but surely crumbling, and it looks like they (Evy & her crew) will be creating their own team of Dreg fighters. That will probably be best, because this last installment screamed played out. Thackery (the mad scientist) is still out there creating dreg mutants, and manages to capture Phin. Of course the hero that she is, Evy trades her life for his. The most bizarre part of this entire book is that EVERY time she goes into battle, goes up against the mad scientist, or wherever she goes, she somehow forgets her weapons. I don't know about you but if I had already died like 6 times, half of my friends were dead, and I fought supernatural baddies daily, I don't think I would leave the house without something. Of course, Evy can take on 4 vampires with a toothpick, so I am sure she isn't worried. That part I made up, but I think it goes along nicely with the theme of the story.
This book has the best rating, but it just wasn't as good as the others to me. Evy of course is tortured, dies, and comes back to life. (again) Starting to see a pattern here. She and Wyatt are an all out couple now, so there goes my hope for Phin. The triads are slowly but surely crumbling, and it looks like they (Evy & her crew) will be creating their own team of Dreg fighters. That will probably be best, because this last installment screamed played out. Thackery (the mad scientist) is still out there creating dreg mutants, and manages to capture Phin. Of course the hero that she is, Evy trades her life for his. The most bizarre part of this entire book is that EVERY time she goes into battle, goes up against the mad scientist, or wherever she goes, she somehow forgets her weapons. I don't know about you but if I had already died like 6 times, half of my friends were dead, and I fought supernatural baddies daily, I don't think I would leave the house without something. Of course, Evy can take on 4 vampires with a toothpick, so I am sure she isn't worried. That part I made up, but I think it goes along nicely with the theme of the story.
lalabristow's review against another edition
5.0
Previously Published on my blog: Welcome to Larissa's Bookish Life
*NO Spoilers
Kelly has done it again and delivered an awesome Urban Fantasy novel in this installment of her Dreg City series. I love how she has built up her world and characters and I find it that is impossible to get emotionally involved with Evy’s plea.
I mean, three books into this series and Evy does. not. get. a. freaking. break.! Don’t get me wrong, it all makes for a heart stopping story after another, but man she goes through hell after heel in these books and from the way things keep going I don’t really see a break in sight.
In Another Kind of Dead, Evy once again is in the spotlight and NOT in a good way. People are still trying or to kill her or use her, however she has built quite a little group of friends and people she can trust, something that she didn’t really have before.
There is a lot of Wyatt goodness in this novel and I for one love it! I think Evy and Wyatt are a great couple, not an easy HEA for sure, but definitely something to hope for. Phin is also back in this novel along with a series of secondary characters that make this series that much richer.
We also get a couple flashbacks and with them we get a chance to learn more about Evy’s and Evy and Wyatt’s past. I LOVED that!
All in all Kelly Meding does a brilliant job with Another Kind of Dead. Some series might start to fizzle and lose ground by book 3, but this definitely not the case and I have the suspicion that she is just getting started and I can’t wait to go along for the ride!
*NO Spoilers
Kelly has done it again and delivered an awesome Urban Fantasy novel in this installment of her Dreg City series. I love how she has built up her world and characters and I find it that is impossible to get emotionally involved with Evy’s plea.
I mean, three books into this series and Evy does. not. get. a. freaking. break.! Don’t get me wrong, it all makes for a heart stopping story after another, but man she goes through hell after heel in these books and from the way things keep going I don’t really see a break in sight.
In Another Kind of Dead, Evy once again is in the spotlight and NOT in a good way. People are still trying or to kill her or use her, however she has built quite a little group of friends and people she can trust, something that she didn’t really have before.
There is a lot of Wyatt goodness in this novel and I for one love it! I think Evy and Wyatt are a great couple, not an easy HEA for sure, but definitely something to hope for. Phin is also back in this novel along with a series of secondary characters that make this series that much richer.
We also get a couple flashbacks and with them we get a chance to learn more about Evy’s and Evy and Wyatt’s past. I LOVED that!
All in all Kelly Meding does a brilliant job with Another Kind of Dead. Some series might start to fizzle and lose ground by book 3, but this definitely not the case and I have the suspicion that she is just getting started and I can’t wait to go along for the ride!
amyiw's review against another edition
2.0
Disappointed. This didn't really have much new and the old was redundant in spades.
So crazed bad guy makes Evy's life a living nightmare. Sound familiar, well yeah, the first two books. So, Wyatt and Evy's position or plans are tracked down and thwarted at least 4 times in this book. Thackery, the bad guy, seems to be omniscient and they play into his hands over and over. He seems to know that they will negociate with the terrorists, twice, even though he one ups them both times. He seems to be all powerful Evy's "team" just doesn't seem to have any ability to do anything.
Most of this book is the bad guy manipulating everything, torturing Evy over and over and hurting her friends. Sound familiar? First time Second time. The bad guy screws their plans again Oh now another negotiation with a terrorist or his terms. More torture, and her "team" doesn't even find her. It is just by coincidence that she is saved
And in the end, you don't get a conclusion, it is all left in the air. There is another big conflict/war scene which drags on, is very bloody violent, and actually kind of boring. We never understand why the attack happened or the purpose. More questions are left than answered.
So why the 2 stars, because I actually liked the romance and there was a little furthering of the Evy character and her abilities. I never liked the triads and think they are an evil organization. From the first book you learn how bad they are - they and they repeat it here. This organizations bottom rung is made up of criminals that will fight for their lives but in no way do I see a connection to each other. She keeps on saying how connected she was but the camaraderie is never shown, only the discord.
I keep hoping that the Triads and upper echelon will be over turned and a more just and integrated policing of the dregs starts happening. Instead each book is about Evy fighting some bad guy with the upper hand and the triads always having some bad part to play in it. Evy and her friends getting hurt and/or tortured multiple times. And then we are left thinking, this is really not a world I would like to live in.
It was OK because of the furthering of Evy and Wyatt but the redundancy of the plot and torture and violence leaves it flat. Then the non-ending... just made it so/so. This was hard for me to get through. I put it down frequently and was rolling my eyes and just out right mad, a lot of the time.
Get some new material. Fix the triads and bosses. Do something else. I'll read the next but if it is the same, I'll quit.
So crazed bad guy makes Evy's life a living nightmare. Sound familiar, well yeah, the first two books. So, Wyatt and Evy's position or plans are tracked down and thwarted at least 4 times in this book.
Spoiler
surveillance at the first trade off, following the goblin hybred, the cabin's position, the capture of the changeling, the apartment (with the investigator) and then finally the tracking planSpoiler
taking down one of the most badass changeling in front of everyone.Most of this book is the bad guy manipulating everything, torturing Evy over and over and hurting her friends. Sound familiar? First time
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Evy gets attacked suffers horribly, which shouldn't have happened in the first place because she shouldn't have been the one to answer the phone. She shouldn't have been the one at the trade. She should have never become involved there.Spoiler
She gets attacked again, while been under protection, way out of any range of tracking abilities and suffers horribly and then over reacts emotionally.Spoiler
They then make a plan that again goes wrong, and Thackery ends up with a "friend". How? who knows because the shapeshifter is a badass. He tortures him terribly, more tortureSpoiler
by a dreg friend trying to save his own person.And in the end, you don't get a conclusion, it is all left in the air.
Spoiler
Thackery doesn't get caught, no spy is found and nothing is explained as how he has so much power and omniscience.So why the 2 stars, because I actually liked the romance and there was a little furthering of the Evy character and her abilities. I never liked the triads and think they are an evil organization. From the first book you learn how bad they are - they
Spoiler
kill of 1/2 of the applicants by making them fight one another to the death.I keep hoping that the Triads and upper echelon will be over turned and a more just and integrated policing of the dregs starts happening. Instead each book is about Evy fighting some bad guy with the upper hand and the triads always having some bad part to play in it. Evy and her friends getting hurt and/or tortured multiple times. And then we are left thinking, this is really not a world I would like to live in.
It was OK because of the furthering of Evy and Wyatt but the redundancy of the plot and torture and violence leaves it flat. Then the non-ending... just made it so/so. This was hard for me to get through. I put it down frequently and was rolling my eyes and just out right mad, a lot of the time.
Get some new material. Fix the triads and bosses. Do something else. I'll read the next but if it is the same, I'll quit.
drey72's review against another edition
4.0
drey’s thoughts:
I don’t know how Evy does it. Seems like she’s destined to be dead (and stay that way), with as many times as she gets killed. And now, she has yet another big scary baddie to hunt down. If I were Evy, I’d curl up in a ball and hide under the bed. Forever.
Too bad for her, she’s strong. Too bad for her, she cares. And way too bad for her, her enemies know her weak spots, and exactly which buttons to push to get her to do what they want…
If you have a delicate constitution or a fragile stomach, you won’t want to read this. What Evy goes through, I wouldn’t wish on my absolute worst enemies. All I know is, I wouldn’t want to piss Kelly Meding off. Seriously.
The story is packed with plot and action, and there’s even some character development. I wish Wyatt was a bit less wishy-washy, even as I appreciated his sensitivity to Evy’s issues. And boy does she have issues. But who wouldn’t? I also liked getting to know some of the other characters better. I like Gina, and Phin. I wish someone would break Bastian’s nose. Oh wait, did they?
The ending is frenetic and at some parts downright terrifying–and grossly so. Here’s another warning if you pick this up: You won’t be able to put it down until you flip the last page, and then you’re stuck with me waiting to see what happens next. And hoping Evy gets a much much nicer treatment in that installment (Wrong Side of the Dead, coming in January!!)… But I’m not holding my breath.
drey’s rating: Excellent!!!
I don’t know how Evy does it. Seems like she’s destined to be dead (and stay that way), with as many times as she gets killed. And now, she has yet another big scary baddie to hunt down. If I were Evy, I’d curl up in a ball and hide under the bed. Forever.
Too bad for her, she’s strong. Too bad for her, she cares. And way too bad for her, her enemies know her weak spots, and exactly which buttons to push to get her to do what they want…
If you have a delicate constitution or a fragile stomach, you won’t want to read this. What Evy goes through, I wouldn’t wish on my absolute worst enemies. All I know is, I wouldn’t want to piss Kelly Meding off. Seriously.
The story is packed with plot and action, and there’s even some character development. I wish Wyatt was a bit less wishy-washy, even as I appreciated his sensitivity to Evy’s issues. And boy does she have issues. But who wouldn’t? I also liked getting to know some of the other characters better. I like Gina, and Phin. I wish someone would break Bastian’s nose. Oh wait, did they?
The ending is frenetic and at some parts downright terrifying–and grossly so. Here’s another warning if you pick this up: You won’t be able to put it down until you flip the last page, and then you’re stuck with me waiting to see what happens next. And hoping Evy gets a much much nicer treatment in that installment (Wrong Side of the Dead, coming in January!!)… But I’m not holding my breath.
drey’s rating: Excellent!!!
bbraden's review against another edition
4.0
I feel like Evy is coming into her own here. After her floundering around (mentally, emotionally, physically) in the first two books I was getting bored. But this made me intrigued again. I still like Meding's story building and her unique take on what can be a very tired trope.
slc333's review against another edition
4.0
Loved it but I am not sure how much more I can stand of Evy being put through the ringer.
suzrae73's review against another edition
4.0
I can't say enough good things about this series! I absolutely love this series, Kelly Meding always has me on the edge of my seat and it just amazes me all the things Evy has to go thru and yet she manages to make it out the other side with a positive attitude! Can't wait to see what's in store in the next installment for Evy and Wyatt, I have a feeling some interesting things will be happening!
chelseaj91's review against another edition
3.0
She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.Been there. Done that.
Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good—immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her.
Evy and Wyatt, her partner/lover/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads—the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures—they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all—Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.
Ok, don't get me wrong, this series is really interesting. I mean, sassy heroine, sassy book boyfriend, vampires, fighting, general mayhem? Sign me up! BUT there's a limit. I mean, the first 2 books and a good part of this one all happen over the course of like 2 and a half weeks. Then things happen which push it to like over the course of a couple months, but even within that time, Evy does not get a break. This is my second time reading this and I honestly don't remember being this annoyed...
Again, mayhem, fighting, all the things, I'm interested. But I also want the characters to get the slightest bit of downtime. To do things like decompress and heal. And come terms with a new lease on life, a new love. Just you know, life in general. And there's also a limit to how many times a character can go through the torture/kidnap/death routine. I get it, Evy's special since she came back and has all these new powers. But will bad guys just stop for like ten seconds?
I did like the minuscule moments that Wyatt and Evy got. I love Wyatt in general and I'm really glad that he's acknowledged his feelings for Evy, they're out there in the open, but he's allowing her to figure this out on her own. Of course the fact that he ran off to do some super secret something after he thought she was gone is a little worrisome, especially considering that the last time he did that, he nearly became the host for a demon, but hopefully whatever he did isn't going to be that bad.
I did have a small issue with the fact that Evy still seems to have a little trouble distinguishing between her thoughts and feelings and Chalice's. Especially since I thought she'd basically felt that Chalice had, for all intents and purposes, moved on. Honestly, I don't think there ever was anything (or maybe not as much) about Chalice's feelings/attractions to Wyatt. I think those were feelings that Evy'd had the whole time but because she'd never actually acknowledged feeling them, she didn't realize they were hers.
Anyway, enjoyable enough series that I want to pick up the rest of the books. But I need a break from the rushing and death/torture/kidnapping that is making up Evy's life and probably won't be in a rush to pick up the next one.