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Saints Astray (Santa Olivia #2)

by Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)

3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 · rating details · 967 ratings · 157 reviews

Fellow orphans, amateur vigilantes, and members of the Santitos, Loup Garron-the fugitive daughter of a genetically engineered "wolf man"-and Pilar Ecchevarria grew up in the military zone of Outpost 12, formerly known as Santa Olivia. But now they're free, and they want to help the rest of the Santitos escape. During a series of escapades, they discover that Miguel, Loup'...more

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Published November 22nd 2011 by Grand Central Publishing (first published November 1st 2011)

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Nov 30, 2011 Mariel rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: readers of fanfics

Recommended to Mariel by: Voldemort

My life may end up being long, long and still not long enough or too short the way that I can waste hours playing Angry Birds and still feel it wasn't enough time to try to beat level 3.15. If I persist in reading Saints Astray it will be too long no matter the outcome. I lose no matter what. Sooooo boring. My senses are too dull to come up with more descriptions of how boring. I have butter knives sharper than this! Okay, I lied but see (butter melts in my mouth!)? What I came up with wasn't go...more My life may end up being long, long and still not long enough or too short the way that I can waste hours playing Angry Birds and still feel it wasn't enough time to try to beat level 3.15. If I persist in reading Saints Astray it will be too long no matter the outcome. I lose no matter what. Sooooo boring. My senses are too dull to come up with more descriptions of how boring. I have butter knives sharper than this! Okay, I lied but see (butter melts in my mouth!)? What I came up with wasn't good. Soooooo bad. I'm on the 15% mark on my Kindle. Pilar and Loup call each other baby constantly. It's like that stereotypes about Canadians who attach "Eh" to everything. "Want some more pizza, eh?" "How about that book review, eh?" Only it'd be "Want some more pizza, baby?" I loved the Loup/Pilar of the first book. Santa Olivia is one of the most enjoyable reading experiences I've ever had. It's on my wishitlastedforever and my rubber-ring shelves. That's as favorite as I go on goodreads. What happened? They escape and end up in a fancy hotel and get gratuities from some corporate/governmental type of guys? "Can I get this fancy skirt, baby?" "Let's not go dancing,baby because I'm worried- even though I cannot feel fear in Santa Olivia but Carey decided to add in descriptors of a hollow ache that I now know means fear- but gee whiz this is all so cool. Room service, baby!" And I pretty much had to stop reading when they consider all their job options like babysitting for rich people. Noooooooo! Isn't it so cool we were genetically engineered, baby? Maybe the others will get their own books. Cries. (What a baby.)

Nooooooooooooooooo. Santa Olivia was awesome because it had the orphan kids, their vigilante justice, boxing, real freaking community feeling. Out Post was a place and Santa Olivia meant something to them. I cherished every moment of them. They were real characters and not like a very special episode of a sitcom about the characters going to Hawaii or Disney World. Or a shitty fanfic. That's probably it. It reads like a shitty fanfic written by someone who didn't get why the story was good. Or one of those freebies ebook things (coughs for a low, low price) by an author with a popular series that's nothing more than a sex scene between the two love interests.

Maybe I'm a fool. It's not like I don't see a new sequel for Carey's Kushiel's series (bloated messes. Okay, I only read one. It was enough) every time I step into a real bookstore. The woman loves to write sequels. The whole book of Kushiel's Dart read like a rehash. It isn't enough for me to trot out the character and have them do whatever. I'm really bored. I give up before I forget that I loved Santa Olivia.

And I'm sad 'cause I had looked forward to this. I'm never going to get that 15% back, am I?(less)

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Feb 26, 2012 Duffy Pratt rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, science-fiction

"Astray" is the operative word here. Loup Garron is back, but for most of this book she lacks any direction. There's lots going on here, but it's not going anywhere. Having escaped from Gitmo, I mean Outpost, Loup and Pilar have some fun on the beach in Mexico, get recruited for bodyguard training and pack off to Scotland. Then do security for a fashion designer, for a mafia family in Sicily, for the bratty daughter of a Swiss banker in Geneva, and for a Pop band in Australia and Japan.

There's...more "Astray" is the operative word here. Loup Garron is back, but for most of this book she lacks any direction. There's lots going on here, but it's not going anywhere. Having escaped from Gitmo, I mean Outpost, Loup and Pilar have some fun on the beach in Mexico, get recruited for bodyguard training and pack off to Scotland. Then do security for a fashion designer, for a mafia family in Sicily, for the bratty daughter of a Swiss banker in Geneva, and for a Pop band in Australia and Japan.

There's lots of potential for great stuff here, but for some reason it all falls a bit flatter than the first book did. For the most part, there is an incident, our heroines triumph, and then they declare how hot they are for each other and say that they are going to have amazing sex together and the chapter ends. Beforehand, I would not have said that it was possible for me to grow tired of lesbian mutant werewolf sex, but somehow Carey managed to pull that off.

The last third of the book begins to have some direction, when Loup decides to return to America to testify about Gitmo/Outpost, and to rescue her former sparring partner from being held hostage in a swanky Vegas casino called The Hellfire Club. But even this sort of just fizzles, as everything comes much to easily to Loup and Pilar, and this ease short-circuits any real drama that might develop.

I'm not sure what happened here. The book feels like the wrong length. It could have made for a great short story. It could have been really compelling if Carey had put some more work into the situations and made it three or four times as long. As it is, the supporting characters seem kind of thin. Loup and Pilar seem less well developed than they were in the first book, and the way the book is structured left me wanting either less or more.

Having said all that, I still like the characters in this book, and the basic idea. I thought the treatment of the pop band Kate was lots of fun. It was just a step down from the first book. (less)

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Feb 23, 2012 Oracleofdoom rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I took a long time with this one, because honestly, I was a little bit bored with it. I really enjoyed Santa Olivia, but with this one, there hardly seemed to be any conflict at all. Pilar and Loup got along wonderfully, absolutely, completely over the conflict they had in the previous book, completely madly in love. I couldn't have been more bored with the romance in this one, and Jacqueline Carey usually tells a fantastic love story. I think back to Phedre and Joscelin, Imriel and Sidonie, Moi...more

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May 02, 2013 Serenity rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dnf

I don't know what happened with me and this book. It's been a while since I read the first one, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit and wanted to know how the story continued. However, this sequel didn't resonate with me at all. Perhaps it would have been best if Santa Olivia was allowed to be a stand-alone novel.

My biggest peeve with the book wasn't the writing, the writing wasn't bad (although the story could have been better). No, it was the characters. I don't remember them being quite so...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Brian Palmer rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a nice novel that takes a nice high-concept feature and keeps it relatively down to earth. If you were a genetically enhanced teenager (stronger and faster than unenhanced humans), what would you do with your life after you make it on your own? Apparently it's be a fisherman, construction worker, or get into the bodyguarding business. Which actually makes a lot of sense -- this novel is mostly about keeping the leads' heads on their shoulders.

There's still a lot of wish fulfillment, as t...more

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Nov 30, 2012 Julia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian, werewolves, science-fiction, glbtq

I didn’t love this as much as I loved Santa Olivia, the first of the so far two books in this series. Nor did I love it as much as the last book I read, Among Others. Which it isn't at all similar to excpet in proximity. So I’m damning it, a very little bit, by comparison.

One of the things I liked best about Santa Olivia is the dystopian world. In this book, at the beginning they leave that village and we find the rest of the world is doing okay. It’s unusual to have a happily ever after ending...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Tim Hicks rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The further I got into this the less I liked it. Volume 1 had some interesting concepts and characters and conflicts. This one makes Danielle Steel seem like Jorge Luis Borges. Perhaps someone who reads Harlequins can tell us how close this is to one of theirs.

I suppose I should reflect the book by having 20% of this review be "ooh baby I can't wait to ..ahh!" I have problem with having such scenes in the book, but there are way too many, and they're sickly sweet.

Loup shows flickers of being i...more

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Jan 22, 2012 Frances rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm glad Carey came out with this sequel to Santa Olivia. These books are a departure from her Kushiel series, both in tone and in content. They do however share the theme of alternate timelines -- something I'm seeing more and more of in contemporary fiction. Loup Garron, child of a genetically created super-soldier, has escaped the Gaza-strip-like Outpost 12 established by the U.S. government along the border with Mexico in the wake of a global pandemic. She and her girlfriend Pilar find refug...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Suspense Magazine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In “Saints Astray,” Jacqueline Carey returns to the near future world she created in her previous book, “Santa Olivia,” and to its fascinating heroine, Loup Garron.
Loup’s mother was a resident of Outpost 12—once called Santa Olivia—that was created during a pandemic when the military set up a fifty-mile wide cordon between the U.S. and Mexico. Her father was born from a top-secret super soldier program as a genetically engineered organism (Geemo for short). Loup looks like a normal eighteen-yea...more In “Saints Astray,” Jacqueline Carey returns to the near future world she created in her previous book, “Santa Olivia,” and to its fascinating heroine, Loup Garron.
Loup’s mother was a resident of Outpost 12—once called Santa Olivia—that was created during a pandemic when the military set up a fifty-mile wide cordon between the U.S. and Mexico. Her father was born from a top-secret super soldier program as a genetically engineered organism (Geemo for short). Loup looks like a normal eighteen-year-old girl, but she’s inherited her father’s super strength and incredible speed. She has no concept of fear.
“Saints Astray” begins where “Santa Olivia” left off with Loup and her lover, Pilar, escaping from Outpost 12 and crossing into Mexico. They’re helped by Christophe who, in a way, is Loup’s “cousin” since his father was also a Geemo. While the original Geemos have died, burned out by their raging metabolisms, their children have a chance for somewhat normal lives. In the thirty years since the pandemic, life outside the border cordon has returned to the normalcy of the pre-illness days.
In Mexico City, Loup and Pilar meet with a reform-minded US Senator who wants to blow open the story of Outpost 12. They also receive a business proposition from the head of a Security Firm to become bodyguards. While the position is a natural fit for Loup, Pilar struggles with the training, until she discovers her own special talent: she’s a crack shot with a pistol. Their assignments take them around the world, including a tour with a British pop band. While they travel far, Loup and Pilar can’t forget the people they left behind. When a former Outpost resident disappears just before testifying for the senator’s committee, Loup and Pilar must risk all they have to finally shine a spotlight on the black hole of Outpost 12.
Carey delivers a fast-paced story, filled with action and leavened with humor and the delightful interplay of her characters. When saints stray, we get a devil of a good story.
Reviewed by David Ingram for Suspense Magazine
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Jan 09, 2012 Aster rated it 3 of 5 stars

Sweet, fun, action-y teenage wish-fulfillment fantasy with a social justice edge. Slow build, fun payoff, would be great beach reading.

This would be great young adult fiction, but for all the swearing and sex. Which is to say it is great young adult fiction, but I don't know that teachers and librarians should go about handing it out that way. I'd recommend it for both boys and girls old enough to appreciate a sensual love story and a principled struggle.

Carey enjoys spoiling the characters sh...more

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Nov 23, 2011 Dan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

This book was amazing!! I loved every minute of reading it. I stayed up till like 5am before I fell asleep and finished it the following morning! The relationship between Loup and Pilar was beautiful and I felt for them every step of the way. When I think about how much was accomplished in this book I wonder how Carey was able to fit it all in. However, she did it superbly well and it did not feel rushed at all. The ending was closed well without a cliff hanger but open enough to continue with t...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Janet rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: novels

I enjoyed this second volume of the Santa Olivia series more than I did the first, but I still consider this series the least of Carey's works, after the Banewreaker duology and her Kushiel books.

Part of this may be that I think the Santa Olivia books are actually Young Adult novels. Even though some of the situations -- especially in the first book -- are rather grown up, the stories themselves are actually simple and straight forward, without the lushness that characterizes Carey's other seri...more

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Dec 03, 2011 Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Yvensong, Cheryl in CC NV, S. Michele, EVERYONE

Recommended to Darlene by: Jacqueline Carey

Shelves: audible, jacqueline-carey, kindle, sci-fi, womyn, lesbian, susan-ericksen

Can I give this book ten stars? Is it possible to love a second book in a series more than the first? I wish I could, and I do.

The depth of character, plot and world building is absolutely amazing! Jacqueline Carey writes in poetry it seems. Not in a dull, you have to figure it out as you go into tangled webs-way, but flowing and vivid. It is like you have put on Carey glasses and see a world you might not have seen before.

I didn't cry at the end of this book. But I am sad. I cannot see how ther...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Kat Hagedorn rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi-and-fantasy, reviewed

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Bloody hell. I really only got how awful this was until halfway through, by which point I figured I might as well take it to its end. If only because it's super quick read and to see the characters go back to Outpost again. Yea, sorry if I ruined that for you, but... nah. I'm not. Don't pick this up.

The first book is really pretty good- it has such an interesting premise and Carey takes it in weird directions. This follow-up is the result of Carey's agent saying "all th...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Dawn rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: lgbt-supernatural-fiction, magic-and-the-supernatural, lesbian-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Well, she ruined it. You think the woman who created Phedra - a hero who's power is in taking a good beating during sex and getting off on it, would at least lead to a book where you could say 'hey, at least the sex scenes were good'. Instead, they were empty, as was the plot. It was good, for the first few pages to see the girls happy again, but then the book started going in no direction at all.

That being said, skipping the X-men esque (we superhumans are people too) aspect, which didn't get...more

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Dec 05, 2011 Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Yvensong, Cheryl in CC NV, S. Michele Everyone

Recommended to Darlene by: Jacqueline Carey

Shelves: audible, kindle, jacqueline-carey, lgbt, lesbian, sci-fi, susan-ericksen, book-2, dystopia, i-have-book-1, kindle-books-i-own, not-loanable, text-to-speech-enabled, strong-fem

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Mar 05, 2012 The North Wall rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: finished-just-barely

I was really looking forward to this book. I loved Santa Olivia; it was so much fun seeing Carey let loose into a modern world, the characters were entertaining and lovable, the tiny, locked-in community of Outpost was interesting and beautifully drawn. So where the hell did this one go wrong?

This sequel is so bad, I almost did myself an ocular mischief thanks to the amount of eye rolling that occurred as I was reading it. Lou and Pilar skip through a series of wish-fulfilling events where they...more

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Jan 22, 2013 Journey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: team-ladies

some of this book reminds me of other books where a girl comes into a lot of money -- by way of being an heiress or whatever -- and then it spends way too much time focusing on what exactly she buys, long descriptions of her outfits, oh I get to go to all these fancy places, oh I'm BFFs with this band now! that's not the bulk of this book, but parts of it definitely read like that. it's not bad, but I think it takes away from the quality. additionally, there's a lot going on but it doesn't feel...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Anna rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: disappointment

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Feb 20, 2012 Emma Cunningham rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Warning: Saints Astray is the sequel to Santa Olivia. There’s no way to review it without some spoilers from the first book, so please don’t read this if you haven’t read Book One!

I loved Santa Olivia. It’s completely different than the Kushiel series, more sci-fi/dystopian fiction and less fantasy. It’s also written in harsher, more “normal” language, much less flowery than her other works. Oh, and it’s shorter.

The basic story is that Loup Garron is the child of a human mother and a genetically...more

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Nov 25, 2011 Shala Kerrigan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Santa Olivia is the only book by Jacqueline Carey that I recommended to my husband and son because while it's got the kind of wonderful romance she's known for, it's also the sort of action driven sci-fi with great characters they both appreciate.

This will be the second book I recommend to them by her.

It's lighter than the first book, without the tragedy and heartache. It's still full of action, and in this one, the love story between Pilar and Loup is the main theme. It's wonderful watching Pil...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Heidi rated it 1 of 5 stars

I loved the first book and that's why I wanted to read this book. I am SO disappointed in this book, though!

There are a lot of dialogues in the book and they all feel either forced or macho like. The plot isn't that eventful and I never had this "oh-I-want-to-get-back-to-my-book" feeling.

Read the first book (Santa Olivia), but stay away from this one!

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Mar 26, 2013 D rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: challenge, lgbtq, series

Okay, when I read reviews about this book, I was sort of prepared to not like it very much? It sounded slmost trivial to the brilliance that was the first book and I almost wondered what Jacqueline Carey was thinking, writing in a British pop band (of all things!) into the whole werewolf vigilante lesbian scene, but it actually works.

It more than works, I honestly think this book is better than the first in terms of development if the other characters. Pilar, especially. In Santa Olivia we see L...more

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Dec 13, 2011 Shadallark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As indicated by my three stars the book was fine, neither spectacular nor boring. If I had read this book without having read Santa Olivia I would have had no connection with, nor commitment to the characters in the story.

On its own this book is a nice light read with a bit of action, a bit of romance, and a bit of state of the world commentary. All these things make the book an enjoyable light read.

Having read Santa Olivia and become so intimately connected to Loup Garron and the intense depth...more

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May 17, 2013 Hiep Huynh rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Interesting premise, and I gather that the prequel to this book was decent.

This one read like bad fanfic. The storyline centred around activities that would appeal to teenagers (shopping, celebrities), and many times I felt like an old perve reading about these girls wrecking every bed they get near.

The constant 'baby' is grating, as is 'getting her smoulder on'. Lupe's 'shiny hero eyes' is also a bit :S, and ges old, fast.

Very predictable in parts - in fact, I'm only surprised that Magnus' ass...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Amber rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

Sequel to Santa Olivia (first book which I did enjoy). Saints Astray continues the story of the genetically modified heroine, Loup and her girlfriend, Pilar. As many sequels go, this story didn't have the grit or the focus of the first one. The author basically spins a lovely, if not entirely believable tale that wraps up the story from the first novel. Very light reading, let me put it that way. Plus, the sex scenes were so generic that I had a hard time remembering both characters were female....more

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Jan 08, 2012 Liriel27 rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopias, sci-fi, supernatural-romance

Huh. That was...really kinda goofy. The big "obstacles" were too easily overcome, I think - there's no real sense of menace (or, oddly for how often they talk about/physically demonstrate it, a sense of love between Pilar and Loup). The emotions in the book came off kind of forced and cutesy.

It reads, as a few of the other reviewers have said, much like stilted YA (with much cussing and sex) or like fanfic, complete with descriptions of shopping trips and clothes (Have you ever noticed how often...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Christal rated it 2 of 5 stars

This was such a disappointment. The original, Santa Olivia, is by far my favorite book from this author. Unfortunately that meant I had extremely high hopes and lots of excitement for the sequel Saints Astray, and those hopes came crashing to the ground early on.

Where to begin. Well, this book reads more like a 15 year old's attempt at a badass female action book who knows nothing about lesbian relationships. everything about this book, all the events and all the characters are completely unbeli...more This was such a disappointment. The original, Santa Olivia, is by far my favorite book from this author. Unfortunately that meant I had extremely high hopes and lots of excitement for the sequel Saints Astray, and those hopes came crashing to the ground early on.

Where to begin. Well, this book reads more like a 15 year old's attempt at a badass female action book who knows nothing about lesbian relationships. everything about this book, all the events and all the characters are completely unbelievable. Events, where to even start to tackle how ludicrous it was to paint a picture of how easy it is to take on the US government and law system. Loup and Pilar escape, and in exactly one year manage to make it to a city in Mexico to meet her family and stay long enough to be considered locals, go through training in Scotland to become secret agent type body guards, have about 3 jobs before a rock band (of all absurd things) buy out their contract for mere pennies off what the somewhat shady international company could make off of Loup, go on tour with the band and create enough of a ruckus that the US government starts looking for them (which btw takes at least a week to get into effect, yeah that would never take that long, not with government property), sneak into the US with no issues at Vegas to rescue their friend from the Hellfire Club's Mob-like owner (yes I am serious and rolling my eyes at this point) with NO ISSUES AT ALL, Loup getting herself caught and detained as government property and having to get through 2-3 trials to get through her freedom and the changing of a constitutional amendment to free her, and then managing to wrap up all loose ends before getting a permit to go back home to Santa Olivia for her birthday.

All in just 12 months. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! it would have taken a couple years just for the freaking court dates. There is no way in hell those trials would have been done and over, and Loup so easily won and a constitutional amendment changed in about 3-6 months tops. Not to mention it would probably not happen at all, but beside the point she would have been lucky to get even 1 court date, no matter how media coverage was at that point, within a couple of months.

Moving onto characters, Pilar has now become almost Mary Sue-ish. She 'surprisingly' is good at anything Loup is not so good at, and all on the first try. Never even touched a gun or did anything other than bar tend in her short 18 year life... well of *course* she is an excellent marksmen. Nothing but an old outdated computer that she never touched at the church orphanage, no problem give her a smartphone and as soon as she eventually figures out how to turn it on and answer a phone call BAM, instant perfect research assistant. She just needed some vocab and speech help, no prob.

And Loup, OK I really do *heart* Loup but even her sense of justice and hero-complex got on my nerves. I'm sorry, no one is that selfless. And if Carey was trying to show her being torn with her decisions, she failed miserably. It was basically 'no people will get hurt, I have to do this' all the time. No issues even with turning herself in, no conflicting emotions or thoughts, nothing.

And the conversations between Loup and Pilar, after about the 5th chapter I was ready to puke. Carey had nothing better to write between the two of them? You can skip pages at a time after their first pillow talk or foreplay conversation. they all go like this: Love you, hate that I hurt you, you are so sexy/badass/awesome, I'm insecure and need you to tell me you don't look at other women, ok let's have sex. yes, variations of all that every couple of pages. Infuriating. I know they are supposed to be very young and naive, but no relationship could survive on that. They also have sex like 4 times a day everyday, come on Carey you know better than that. Unless the days in this bizarro world are longer than 24 hours there is no way they are having these hour plus lovemaking sessions several times a day/night and STILL getting anything they need done, accomplished.

I could keep ranting but it wold take a while. I think what sucked the most was that I couldn't connect with the settings, I couldn't get drawn into this world. It was like snapshots, everything went to fast and there wasn't anything in the way of a connection with any of the characters or the places, or even the events, to draw me in and elicit an emotional response. I was like Loup watching a horror movie, absolutely bored. And there were no real obstacles or hurdles, everything was so easy for the 2 main character to figure out and accomplish their goals that you never had that moment of 'OMG what is going to happen next!.' You knew in about 3 pages Carey will have wrapped up the situation simple like and moved the characters on to the next venue, after a healthy dose of sex that is.

There is your indicator of whether or not you're writing something plausible. If your characters have more word-time (like screen time) with their sexual escapades than they do when they are on these grand and dangerous missions, perhaps you need to do some serious editing.

Damn, I was just so aggravated by the end of the novel I don't know if I even want to read it again.(less)

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Nov 15, 2012 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

So nothing really happens in this book. I love love Kushiel but this two book series is like it's written by a different author. The characters really got on my nerves especially Pilar with her "hey baby" ugh. And they went at it like rabbits I don't think there was a chapter that didn't go by that Loup and Pilar were either looking at each other lovey dovey, thinking about each other lovey dovey or doing it. I don't have anything against lesbians but enough is enough. And the swearing was annoy...more

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Feb 08, 2013 Shobha rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's my first book by this author and its an interesting Sopranos/Charlie's Angels/X-women lesbian couple. But what the heck is with the 'baby' 'baby' every time Pilar speaks to Loup? Major puke! And the 'They ordered dinner and then they f----ed'. End of chapter. Oh these shoes look so good on you, ok let's f----. End of chapter. My god, get over it and out of the book woman! The book gets a bit normal in the later chapters and there's a happily ever after, which is why I give it a three star....more

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Saints Astray (Santa Olivia #2)

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