A review by diannamorganti
Hellforged by Nancy Holzner
3.0
Victoria Vaughan is a demon-killing shape-shifter in a world where a virus accidentally killed, then re-animated much of downtown Boston.
Because I'd written a pretty good review of Book 1, [b:Deadtown|6591459|Deadtown (Deadtown, #1)|Nancy Holzner|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312521483s/6591459.jpg|6785037], I decided to pick this one up on the way out of the office on my last day before a long road trip.
Remember how in "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" Joss Whedon would have 2-3 episodes that contributed to the big overall storyline, then he'd throw in 1 that was just a one-off. It was a tension-breaker. You never needed to know anything before it, and you didn't need to remember anything from it.
Book 2 is a bit early in a series to do that. That's definitely what this is, though. In Book 1 I enjoyed the serious political ramifications that were installed into the fun urban fantasy genre here. There was none of that in Book 2. In Book 1 we were introduced to lots of characters that weren't really present very much at all in Book 2 (Vicky was out of town for much of this installment). The whole thing read like the fun book that an author writes in the middle of a long series when they want to escape the corners they've written their characters into. Again - book 2 is a bit early in a series to do that.
It wasn't bad... it just didn't do much. Just sayin.
It was still a fun read. Let's see what book 3 is like.
Because I'd written a pretty good review of Book 1, [b:Deadtown|6591459|Deadtown (Deadtown, #1)|Nancy Holzner|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312521483s/6591459.jpg|6785037], I decided to pick this one up on the way out of the office on my last day before a long road trip.
Remember how in "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" Joss Whedon would have 2-3 episodes that contributed to the big overall storyline, then he'd throw in 1 that was just a one-off. It was a tension-breaker. You never needed to know anything before it, and you didn't need to remember anything from it.
Book 2 is a bit early in a series to do that. That's definitely what this is, though. In Book 1 I enjoyed the serious political ramifications that were installed into the fun urban fantasy genre here. There was none of that in Book 2. In Book 1 we were introduced to lots of characters that weren't really present very much at all in Book 2 (Vicky was out of town for much of this installment). The whole thing read like the fun book that an author writes in the middle of a long series when they want to escape the corners they've written their characters into. Again - book 2 is a bit early in a series to do that.
It wasn't bad... it just didn't do much. Just sayin.
It was still a fun read. Let's see what book 3 is like.