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Feb 28, 2009
Tim
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I came at this one from the wrong point of view & with the wrong attitude. Like any first installment, quite a bit of background info must be introduced & that can slow a storyline down to a crawl. As I read this book, the character grew and I grew right along with her. Now, I find that I care about the characters & want to see how they develop. And there are so many places this one can go! I eagerly await the next installment!
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I came at this one from the wrong point of view & with the wrong attitude. Like any first installment, quite a bit of background info must be introduced & that can slow a storyline down to a crawl. As I read this book, the character grew and I grew right along with her. Now, I find that I care about the characters & want to see how they develop. And there are so many places this one can go! I eagerly await the next installment!
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Mar 17, 2009
Cathy
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It's really a 2.5, but I just couldn't give it my average/3 rating. The main character is a wise-ass, but not clever. As much as I hate to do Buffy comparisons, the author was Tara on Buffy and has written a character who's clearly supposed to be very similar to Buffy. Smartass, dumb blond moments (although not a blond I think, but there sure are some dumb comments), etc. The thing is, the book doesn't have the Buffy wit or heart. It's got the fluff but no substance to hold it up. I like the ide
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Apr 04, 2009
Amanda
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I had my doubts about this book for the first 100 pages. Calliope Reaper-Jones is a shallow, silly, whiny girl. She is obsessed with designer-brand fashion and she's kind of a fat person hater/sizist. I'm all about fleshed-out characters; protaganists with real flaws and pecadillos, but if there is nothing to like about the hero, how can we become invested in their journey? Also, while I am always a huge fan of a female hero (I am a BIG believer in running the "Bechdel Test" on everyth
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Mar 15, 2009
Daniel
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An interesting introduction to what I hope becomes a longer series. Amber Benson creates a universe similar to Piers Anthony's On a Pale Horse. Like that series, the role of "Death" is suddenly forced upon the main character, who quickly must learn to cope with a multitude of other Powers who might have other agendas.
The story weaves numerous pop culture references with a first person point of view that quickly lets the reader identify with the main character.
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The story weaves numerous pop culture references with a first person point of view that quickly lets the reader identify with the main character.
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Feb 03, 2012
Erika
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I came into this book with absurdly high expectations, which was totally unfair to Amber Benson. Like most, I loved her in Buffy and expected Joss Whedon-esque humor and darkness and campy fun.
What I got was...different. Because she is not Joss Whedon (stay with me here, I don't plan to Captain Obvious my way through the whole thing) and well, she's also not a bad writer. It's just that I have no interest in reading about a self-absorbed fashion glutton with a mediocre sense of humor. More...
What I got was...different. Because she is not Joss Whedon (stay with me here, I don't plan to Captain Obvious my way through the whole thing) and well, she's also not a bad writer. It's just that I have no interest in reading about a self-absorbed fashion glutton with a mediocre sense of humor. More...
Nov 08, 2011
Paradoxical
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Death's Daughter is about Calliope, a girl who tries desperately to remain normal, even growing up in her unusual circumstances. Seeing as her father is Death, that is a it of an understatement. Flat out? She will annoy you. She's whiny, she's shallow, and her witticisms aren't witty. At all. She's an idiot, and it really pains me to read about a main character who is so... so dull when she could have been so much more.
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Basically her father and sister have been kidnapped, and if she d More...
Jul 21, 2011
Kendra
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Jul 11, 2011
Allison
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Calliope Reaper-Jones is a bitch, plain and simple. While I will admit I enjoyed her snark and her attitude, it grew old when I was able to see the character as a whole. A lot of people have said that Calli grows as a person as the books progress and I believe them, but I don't have the patience or time to devote to a series with a main character I HATE.
For a start, Calli is obsessed with shopping, makeup, designer clothes and men! Given, she hasn't had a successful date in awhile, More...
For a start, Calli is obsessed with shopping, makeup, designer clothes and men! Given, she hasn't had a successful date in awhile, More...
Jun 02, 2011
Jami
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Death's Daughter is aptly named. Amber Benson (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame)has branched out into chick lit after spending time playing such characters. This story is about Callie, the middle daughter of Death who is the president of Death, Inc. an arbitrator of justice independent of God or the Devil. Callie has moved to the Big Apple to live her dream life, leaving her family issues in the past, until she is called back to help the family business. She must complete three nearly impossible
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May 28, 2011
cecilia
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When a Forgetting Charm is needed to have a normal life, obviously Calliope should know better than to believe "normal" would last forever. Family always keep track of their own - and when Death gets kidnapped and you happen to be the daughter of Death, be sure that the higher beings will come to fetch Calliope to take over the business until her dad is found. But taking over is no easy matter - Calliope must complete three tasks to prove her worth, or else forfeit to the Devil's proté
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May 10, 2011
Rochelle
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The fact that this book got published is an insult to all authors and readers who have come before. The tone is snide, selfish, snobbish, and rude. The complete and total massacre of the English language should shame the writer and the editor. This book was so bad that I threw it away instead of selling it to a used bookstore as no one else should be traumatized by it.
" I mean, I hadn’t had a real date in, well … It was so pathetic an expanse of time that I didn’t even want to tal More...
" I mean, I hadn’t had a real date in, well … It was so pathetic an expanse of time that I didn’t even want to tal More...
Sep 23, 2010
Matt
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Amber Benson...actress, screenwriter, director, and now author. She seems to be a jack of all trades, but she's far from a master of none. I fell in love with her when she played Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I've enjoyed all of the movies she's been in. I wasn't sure how she'd do as an author, though. I admit I approached Death's Daughter with a bit of trepidation.
While Benson does seem to like semi-colons a bit too much, I found her writing to be overall really good. T More...
While Benson does seem to like semi-colons a bit too much, I found her writing to be overall really good. T More...
Jul 11, 2010
Dawson
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May 18, 2009
Michael
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As Amber Benson's books page attests, she's no stranger to either the screen or the press. Death's Daughter is a solo effort (as opposed to her collaborations with Christopher Golden), and it's a fun one. Deftly combining ingredients from fantasy, Greek & Hindu lore, and modern "chick-lit," Ms. Benson creates a heroine who one day suddenly (re)discovers, to her dismay, that her family is high-up in the personal eschatology business.
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Yep, that's "Reaper," as in " More...
May 01, 2009
Kelly
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(3.5 stars) She thought the devil wore Prada...until she met the real one!
Before I begin this review, a confession: I'm a sucker for any novel containing cute hellhounds.
Calliope Reaper-Jones is living the life of a typical New York office flunky, dealing with a diva boss, less-hunky-than-advertised blind dates, and a lust for designer clothes she can't afford. That is, until her father, who happens to be the Grim Reaper himself, is kidnapped and Calliope is swept back in More...
Before I begin this review, a confession: I'm a sucker for any novel containing cute hellhounds.
Calliope Reaper-Jones is living the life of a typical New York office flunky, dealing with a diva boss, less-hunky-than-advertised blind dates, and a lust for designer clothes she can't afford. That is, until her father, who happens to be the Grim Reaper himself, is kidnapped and Calliope is swept back in More...
Mar 25, 2009
Jess
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Okay so I have mixed feelings about this one. I really liked the concept and thought it was pretty unique, at least out of the books I have read. Calliope is going about her normal life, and weird things start happening to her. She's trying to get into her apartment and she thinks she sees a huge monster down the hall. She's at work, and voices start talking to her in the bathroom. Suddenly, she picks up a cupcake that is laced with something and she remembers.
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Three years previous to More...
Mar 12, 2009
Elizabeth
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I'll begin by saying that this isn't the sort of novel I usually read (in fact, it may be the only fantasy novel I've ever read), and I didn't expect to enjoy it very much. However there had been so much mention of it on Twitter and similar sites, I decided to give it a go. I'm delighted I did, because I ended up enjoying it in spite of myself.
I found the beginning chapters very difficult to get through. To the author's credit the story moves quickly from the start, and I didn't ever More...
I found the beginning chapters very difficult to get through. To the author's credit the story moves quickly from the start, and I didn't ever More...
Jan 11, 2011
Ithlilian
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I was a bit put off at the beginning of this novel with the partially ditzy main character that was stuck in a bad job. It didn't help that she erased memories of her family. I was able to get over the semi-unlikable main character and was interested in the tasks she had to complete to free her father. I felt the novel dragged a bit after the three tasks were complete, and the person behind the kidnapping was fairly obvious, but that didn't stop me from eating the novel up. I read it in one sitt
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Jul 11, 2010
James
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I think this book was targeted more at teens than adults. Even if the characters are older, the strength of the story is weak.
There's quite a few things I didn't really like. First off, every single pantheon appears to actually exist. Norse gods, Greek gods, Egyptian, Hindu... They're all equally valid and exist. But above it all, God and the Devil rule. Huh? There's a huge difference in afterworlds. Does Hades just rule over a bunch of dead Greeks, and act as a middle manager for Sa More...
There's quite a few things I didn't really like. First off, every single pantheon appears to actually exist. Norse gods, Greek gods, Egyptian, Hindu... They're all equally valid and exist. But above it all, God and the Devil rule. Huh? There's a huge difference in afterworlds. Does Hades just rule over a bunch of dead Greeks, and act as a middle manager for Sa More...
Jun 02, 2009
Mary (BookHounds)
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Calliope Reaper-Jones, longing for a normal life and a glamorous career, is called into the family business when her father, Death, is kidnapped and, in order to step into the CEO slot on the company board, must compete against the Devil's protégé to find three objects of power in hell. Original.
Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craig's List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss... But when her father -- who happens More...
Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craig's List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss... But when her father -- who happens More...
Feb 28, 2011
Rabenfrau
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Auf den ersten Blick scheint die Welt für Calliope Reaper-Jones in Ordnung – übersieht man dabei den eher miesen Sekretärinnen-Job in Manhattan und ihr eher geringes Glück bei Männern. Und ganz nebenbei scheint sie langsam verrückt zu werden, denn ihr küssen nicht nur Obdachlose grundlos die Füße, sondern es sitzen auch noch Monster in ihrem Hausflur und starren aus dem Fenster!
Doch dann hebt ein verzaubertes Törtchen den Vergessenszauber auf, den sich Calliope vor Jahren auferlegt h More...
Doch dann hebt ein verzaubertes Törtchen den Vergessenszauber auf, den sich Calliope vor Jahren auferlegt h More...
Mar 10, 2009
Heather
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Feb 08, 2011
Heather
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Oh how I wanted to love this book. I love Amber Benson, and I've read some of her work on comics, so I figured even with the kind of lame premise this book would turn out ok. But unfortunately, it's pretty terrible.
For starters, there is exactly one mildly likeable character in a cast of dozens, and it isn't the heroine. The "heroine" mostly sits around and whines, and waits for other people to save her. Also, she's pretty much obsessively attracted to anything with a pen More...
For starters, there is exactly one mildly likeable character in a cast of dozens, and it isn't the heroine. The "heroine" mostly sits around and whines, and waits for other people to save her. Also, she's pretty much obsessively attracted to anything with a pen More...
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Aug 26, 2011
Mirjam
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Calliope Reaper-Jones is Death's daughter, but she wants nothing to do with the family business and prefers to build an ordinary human life. She settles in New York and works as an assistant when her father's executive assistant Jarvis unexpectedly shows up to inform her that her father, sister Thalia and the entire board of directors have been kidnapped and she is needed at home. Reeling from the shock that her father is kidnapped, she is shocked speechless when it becomes clear that she is exp
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Jan 15, 2012
Sunil
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Calliope Reaper-Jones is living a perfectly normal life until she discovers that she is not, in fact, perfectly normal. Her dad's Death, and he's been kidnapped, leaving Death, Inc. with no one in charge. Now it's up to her to complete three tasks and regain control of the company before the Devil's totally hot protégé takes her job. And then she can find her dad and all that.
Let's cut right to it: if it were not written by Amber Benson, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first More...
Let's cut right to it: if it were not written by Amber Benson, I probably wouldn't have made it past the first More...
Jul 12, 2009
Kathleen
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The main character is far too Gossip-Girl-fashion-frenzied for my tastes; the surprise twist villain is not so very surprising; the actual writing leaves something (!) to be desired. That said, this book is fun. The pan theism is well done, the quest itself is interesting enough to make me Wikipedia some facts, and the characters (my personal approval of their traits aside) are believable. For instance, I generally dislike Buffy-esque "just want to be a normal girl" characters like
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Apr 01, 2009
Steve
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Jul 05, 2009
Jackie
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This book came out earlier this year, but recently caught my attention because it's
written by Amber Benson, the actress who played Tara on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer
television series, of which I am a fan. I had to see how she did.
The verdict--pretty darn good. Calliope Reaper-Jones had run away from the family
business, going so far as to put a Forgetting Charm on herself so she could be "normal". The charm is broken by her father's assistant who comes More...
written by Amber Benson, the actress who played Tara on the Buffy The Vampire Slayer
television series, of which I am a fan. I had to see how she did.
The verdict--pretty darn good. Calliope Reaper-Jones had run away from the family
business, going so far as to put a Forgetting Charm on herself so she could be "normal". The charm is broken by her father's assistant who comes More...
Feb 18, 2010
Donna
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Calliope "Calli" Reaper-Jones has had a Forgotten Charm put on herself so she can lead a normal mortal's life in New York City, trying to break into the world of fashion. The Forgotten Charm has made Calli forget about her family and her past. But Jarvis, a faun and her dad's assistant, shows up one day, breaks the charm's spell, makes her remember everything and tells her that her father, who is also know as Death, has been kidnapped.
A reluctant and unhappy Calli heads to More...
A reluctant and unhappy Calli heads to More...
Aug 08, 2011
Isis
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Death's Daughter was a truly FANTASTIC book! Amber's talent as a writer draws you quickly into the story of Callie (Calliope Reaper-Jones) and how she's forced to leave behind her mortal life (compliment of a Forgetting Charm) in order to take over the family business and save her father (Death) and sister after they've been kidnapped.
There are a lot of great moments throughout the story. I really enjoyed reading about how Callie works on her first task, only to realize that it would h More...
There are a lot of great moments throughout the story. I really enjoyed reading about how Callie works on her first task, only to realize that it would h More...
