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A review by book_hoarding_dragon
Green-Eyed Envy by Kasey MacKenzie
3.0
If I could I would give this book 2 1/2 stars. So as a fan of rounding things up... I gave it three. As this book has been given a brief description I'll skip that.
I enjoyed that Riss (Marissa) the Tisiphone Fury of this book actually got to do some detective work. There was Scott in it and you got to see some of the Fury politics. Plus, it was nice to see the return of the Queen of the Harpies. The whole Nan waking up from a mystical coma but she goes and starts causing turmoil in the Fury world. I am curious as to the whole conclusion of this in the next book.
That's all the good stuff that I can come up with. Here are the things that bothered me.
Due to the Fury turmoil there's a civil war brewing and the Tisiphones are being targeted in specific Riss and her family. Now, if you were supposedly a smart 16 year old (or near) and people wanted to kill you and your family wouldn't the wise course of action be NOT to go out and see a movie with your human friends? I could see it if the adults were not divulging that information or just in general a twit. And Riss doesn't even try to scold her for doing it? Or when the niece was moaning about her grounding, no your-parents-are-right? Really?
Yes, Scott was basically there every step of the way, but after the first 50 pages there was zilch personality coming from him. I was kind of hoping to get to see more of his personality and/or world since part of the story revolves the marriage between Harper (FBI friend) and his cousin. Scott's mother had left that side of the family when his mother met his dad who was human (his family regards hooking up humans as beneath them). Though, Scott and his cousin duking it out via arm wrestling was hilarious.
Another thing that I wished Mackenzie would have included in her book was to tell his why the hell the Furies have their own grouping? There's Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera. As a kid I loved greek mythology and were intrigued by the Furiae and I know that the titles were actually the three furiae from Greek Mythology, but in Book 1 Mackenzie establishes that nope, they are actually titles. Maybe then she would have explained how the titles work, what sort of policing each group do that sort of thing. She might have explained it in book 1, but she definitely didn't here. I actually had to go to her website and find a pdf of the Arcana Guide to the Furies where it tells each group roles.
Finally, the whole Victor situation. If I was around a dude who caused me to act the total opposite of my who I was, wouldn't that be a clue that the person is doing something? Yes, Riss never gave in, but one would think since she had to keep reminding herself about Scott and even sometimes she would completely forget about him. Wouldn't that send off an alarm bell that something isn't right? She even said that that attraction was weird for her.
I enjoyed that Riss (Marissa) the Tisiphone Fury of this book actually got to do some detective work. There was Scott in it and you got to see some of the Fury politics. Plus, it was nice to see the return of the Queen of the Harpies. The whole Nan waking up from a mystical coma but she goes and starts causing turmoil in the Fury world. I am curious as to the whole conclusion of this in the next book.
That's all the good stuff that I can come up with. Here are the things that bothered me.
Due to the Fury turmoil there's a civil war brewing and the Tisiphones are being targeted in specific Riss and her family. Now, if you were supposedly a smart 16 year old (or near) and people wanted to kill you and your family wouldn't the wise course of action be NOT to go out and see a movie with your human friends? I could see it if the adults were not divulging that information or just in general a twit. And Riss doesn't even try to scold her for doing it? Or when the niece was moaning about her grounding, no your-parents-are-right? Really?
Yes, Scott was basically there every step of the way, but after the first 50 pages there was zilch personality coming from him. I was kind of hoping to get to see more of his personality and/or world since part of the story revolves the marriage between Harper (FBI friend) and his cousin. Scott's mother had left that side of the family when his mother met his dad who was human (his family regards hooking up humans as beneath them). Though, Scott and his cousin duking it out via arm wrestling was hilarious.
Another thing that I wished Mackenzie would have included in her book was to tell his why the hell the Furies have their own grouping? There's Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera. As a kid I loved greek mythology and were intrigued by the Furiae and I know that the titles were actually the three furiae from Greek Mythology, but in Book 1 Mackenzie establishes that nope, they are actually titles. Maybe then she would have explained how the titles work, what sort of policing each group do that sort of thing. She might have explained it in book 1, but she definitely didn't here. I actually had to go to her website and find a pdf of the Arcana Guide to the Furies where it tells each group roles.
Finally, the whole Victor situation. If I was around a dude who caused me to act the total opposite of my who I was, wouldn't that be a clue that the person is doing something? Yes, Riss never gave in, but one would think since she had to keep reminding herself about Scott and even sometimes she would completely forget about him. Wouldn't that send off an alarm bell that something isn't right? She even said that that attraction was weird for her.