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Steelhands (Havemercy #4)

by Jaida Jones, Danielle Bennett (Goodreads Author)

3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 · rating details · 166 ratings · 35 reviews

With Havemercy, Shadow Magic, and Dragon Soul, the acclaimed writing team of Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett has fused magic and technology into something that can only be termed “magicpunk.” Their distinctive style, featuring a chorus of quirky first-person narrators and brilliantly sophisticated world-building, has won these young writers the plaudits of fans and critic...more

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Published August 2nd 2011 by Spectra

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Sep 16, 2012 Miss rated it 3 of 5 stars

Gosh I really wish Jones and Bennett would finish remembering how to write again, I only have so much patience. :< Guys just make your characters' voices distinct from one another. I'm tired of four books reading this, there's no way you're not sick writing it. Also ladies, I still want more of them. I feel like this series could benefit from one simple rule: ladies in the absence of any compelling reason this should not be the case. Toverre? Ought to have been a woman, they can be best frien...more

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Oct 23, 2011 John rated it 1 of 5 stars

There is only one reason I finished this book. I forced myself to read and study the style of writing. It was a style singularly situated in this book and apparently these writers. I was not familiar with it. The story timeline was well written in a continuous flow from one characters perspective to the next. The reader was able to peice each characters story to the next characters and understand the expressed realistic sense of time slowly progressing. I was completely intrigued by this timelin...more

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May 13, 2011 Liviu rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011_release_read, review_fbc, genre-fantasy, read_2011, t1_recommended_2011

Steelhands is the fourth book in the series that started with Havemercy and as was the case with the previous, it features four new narrators (only Thom and Rook featured twice as narrators so for now we are at 14) though two are old friends - the former leader of the Dragon Corps sergeant Adamo now professor of strategy at the main Volkhov college - the Versity - and Balfour who has the steelhands of the title - a fusion of magic and technology that replaced the hands he lost in the climax of...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Althea Ann rated it 3 of 5 stars

Got this book as a First Reads giveaway.
Like another reviewer mentioned, the contest specified that this was a stand-alone book. It's not; it's the 4th in Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett's 'Havemercy' series. I've intended on reading the series, but I did plan on reading them in order. To anyone who hasn't yet started the series: I HIGHLY recommend reading them in order. It may be too late for me, but not for you!
I have a feeling that I might have given this book 4 stars if I'd read the prior...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Karen Ireland-Phillips rated it 3 of 5 stars

Well-plotted YA of the reverberations of war and conspiracy, with a fast-moving chatty tone reminiscent of some first-person urban fantasy, and Steampunk! Dragons! [return]It’s the fourth volume in the Havemercy series, but it works just fine as a stand alone – the authors do a creditable job of weaving in enough back story to understand motivation and some action. [return]The four main characters - Toverre, a gay scholarship student from the country; Laurence, Toverre’s female fiancé and fellow...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Efseine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

OK. So Jones and Bennett's writing has heaping spoonfuls of charm, which is what has kept me reading all four books even though I have serious problems with basically everything else about them. But they're delightfully witty and often hilarious, their characters are fairly endearing, and they're quite skilled at writing set-pieces; individual scenes work very well.

Unfortunately, the scenes don't knit together into much of a plot. So much padding is spent on unnecessary levels of introspection a...more OK. So Jones and Bennett's writing has heaping spoonfuls of charm, which is what has kept me reading all four books even though I have serious problems with basically everything else about them. But they're delightfully witty and often hilarious, their characters are fairly endearing, and they're quite skilled at writing set-pieces; individual scenes work very well.

Unfortunately, the scenes don't knit together into much of a plot. So much padding is spent on unnecessary levels of introspection and explanation that it takes forever to get to anything, and that's because the plot here is so very thin on the ground. I think Jones and Bennett would be better served focusing on characterization and situation/setting than on plot, because it's not their strong suit. Particularly exacerbating in this book was the choice of Toverre as one of the four narrators; I liked him well enough (although I have problems with his character type, as I'll get to shortly), but he had barely any effect on the plot at all, and what effect he did have could easily be covered in Laure's sections. Antoinette, for example, would've been a much better and frankly more interesting narrator than Toverre.

Which speaks to another very serious problem that Jones and Bennett have, which is with characters. Namely, with the inclusion of female characters. This book feels very much as if their editor said, "You know, you've had almost no female narrators or even significant characters in this series, maybe you should fix that," and instead of attempting to depict a more nuanced and interesting female character (like, I don't know, Antoinette) they went with the stock blunt-tomboy stereotype. I have no problem with tomboys or blunt characters, but in a series with as many pervasive gender issues as this one it drives me absolutely insane that this is the best they can bring themselves to do. They also have an over-fondness for the stereotypical foppish gay man, a character they continue to use again and again with slight variation; in fact, many of their characters can be easily placed into a few stock molds. While they do make the characters convincing, I would also appreciate a bit more variation of type amongst them.

Despite my problems I still plan to read more by these authors, because I like their voice, but in all other respects their novels are deeply flawed.(less)

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Oct 28, 2012 JJ DeBenedictis rated it 3 of 5 stars

I love-love-loved the first book in this series (except for the first two scenes, which were a bit overdone), and in my opinion, the books since have aspired to that level of yumminess but haven't quite matched it.

This book is another mild disappointment. The issue, for me, is that while the writing is (as usual) great and the voice of the characters very enjoyable and believable, the story itself is a bit weak and oftentimes plodding. Those are the same issues I had with the second and third bo...more

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Sep 04, 2012 Diane rated it 5 of 5 stars

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May 10, 2013 Mjlibrary NDSCS marked it as to-read

Shelves: etransmitter, summer-reading

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The 4th book in what has been called “magicpunk” style, this continues the world of Thremedon, the Dragon Corps, the lives of those who have fought in the wars. Adamo has now been put out to pasture as a professor at the University. Balfour spends his time learning to manage his replacement hands, for his real hands lost in the climactic battle of the war. The hands operate on the same magic as the dragons, and have given him his nickname, the title of the book. Two new young people...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Verditwist rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: light

This really is as good as the first book in the series, 'Havemercy'. It rolls along at a lick of a pace, with that winning mix of familiar characters and new. So, first the old faves: Royston, that acerbic whit about town is back, along with a whole flight of slightly broken ex-airman. A pre Raphaelite beauty is busy strutting her stuff, while a picky OCD sufferer is reminding me of someone I know. And guess what else is back !!!
Set in a capital city rich with quirkiness, and Uni halls that must...more

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Dec 29, 2011 Kylie rated it 3 of 5 stars

I keep reading these books out of the feeling of needed to support internet writers. Oh, and metal dragons.

I would have to say that this might be the best the the current four book series plots wise, but the ending was still predictable and straight forward. There were so many possibilities for complications! And there were a fair bit of characters who I wish could have been shown off a bit more who seemed interesting than the four main narrators.

Narrators wise, these main have been the more si...more

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Dec 13, 2011 Danielle rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: scifi-fantasy

I was disappointed in the last two books. Honestly, when I think about it, I loved the 2nd book in this series, Shadow Magic, and have been pretty indifferent to the other three. The characters start to run together, being to a man extra-tough, extra-crispy smart alecks. One such book is fine... but the last two became tedious. Despite the fact that in the 4th book of the series, there was finally a female main character. An extra-tough, extra-crispy smart aleck female character *yawn*.

I'm not s...more

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Aug 11, 2011 Kez rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-books, ebooks, genre-epic-fantasy, genre-steampunk, theme-dragons, theme-gay-males, theme-magic, theme-military

It took me a while to get into this book. None of the main characters immediately jumped out and grabbed me the way Rook and Hal did in Havemercy and Caius in Shadow Magic. Once I delved a little deeper however I found myself falling in love with all four of the characters. I adored seeing Adamo and Royston's friendship from Adamo's point-of-view, and even more so Adamo's concerns over Royston's relationship with Hal. The shy and yet emerging confidence of Balfour was depicted wonderfully. The b...more

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Jul 02, 2011 Tracey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: lter, fantasy, dragons, advanced-reading-copy

Four and a half stars

I hate starting in the middle of a series. I'm usually pretty compulsive about it - if I haven't read book one, I won't read any of it. But sometimes I will put my name in for something on the LibraryThing Early Reviewers page, wherever the book falls in its series - kind of on the assumption that I'm not going to get it. From the May batch of early reviewers I received Steelhands, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett - "Havemercy #4". Feeling my duty to get the read and revi...more Four and a half stars

I hate starting in the middle of a series. I'm usually pretty compulsive about it - if I haven't read book one, I won't read any of it. But sometimes I will put my name in for something on the LibraryThing Early Reviewers page, wherever the book falls in its series - kind of on the assumption that I'm not going to get it. From the May batch of early reviewers I received Steelhands, by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett - "Havemercy #4". Feeling my duty to get the read and review done before the anticipated release date in August, I squared my shoulders and plunged in.

The two ladies who wrote this should give lessons to all writers, fantasy and otherwise, who write more than one book in the same world. All of them. I don't remember ever reading another book which handled the problem of InfoDump in such a skilful manner: I always knew exactly what I needed to know, when I needed to know it - no less, but also no more, or not much more, so I'm left with the deep need to read the other books. Soon.

The story is told in a revolving first person point of view, moving fluidly from ex–Chief Sergeant of the Dragon Corps to his old comrade Balfour to (from Goodreads via randomhouse.com) "Laurence, a feisty young woman whose father raised her to be the son he never had, and Toverre, her fiancé, a brilliant if neurotic dandy who would sooner share his wife-to-be’s clothes than her bed". That's pretty good. They're terrific characters, and each has his own voice which is identifiable and unique from the others, in small ways and large. I've read reviews of other books which don't like alternating first-person narrations; this is not for them (though I wish they'd give it a try). I do (I've actually started a book using the technique), and I loved this.

Steelhands was beautifully written - original, and wonderfully imagined and thought through. I've read very little steampunk so far, but this is exactly what I hoped for and wanted from the genre. The characters were not necessarily all people I'd want to go out to dinner with (most of them not, I think), but I loved spending page-time with them, and I look forward to meeting many of them again. They were all of them excellent companions on the page.

I've discovered a reason to plunge in in the middle of a series: it's lovely that there are more books in a current series already in existence - I don't have to wait for their publication. My birthday's coming up ...(less)

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Dec 25, 2012 Martine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-these-feelings, ebooks, steampunk, homoerotic-subtext-or-subplot

As a huge fan of the authors and their books and newbie member of the Thremedon fandom, I'm a bit biased when it comes to this and I may tend to ignore some of the flaws of this work. Expect this review to be enthusiastic and just a bit analyzing.
One of the main complaints about the books – not just this one – has been that they lack plot. I won't deny that, but here's a thing: there are more aspects of a book than just the plot. Plot, character development, mood, and pacing are the main aspects...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Lily rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

Steelhands is a very entertaining read. I've read the three previous books in the series, and I can say that the authors are very good at building characters. The dialogue is very witty, and you come to love the characters through how they interact with each other. I especially loved Toverre: he is truly neurotic and useless, but on the other hand he also displayed great loyalty and affection towards Laurence.

One criticism of the past books, especially Shadow Magic, is the lack of plot; however...more Steelhands is a very entertaining read. I've read the three previous books in the series, and I can say that the authors are very good at building characters. The dialogue is very witty, and you come to love the characters through how they interact with each other. I especially loved Toverre: he is truly neurotic and useless, but on the other hand he also displayed great loyalty and affection towards Laurence.

One criticism of the past books, especially Shadow Magic, is the lack of plot; however, in Steelhands, the story is clearly plot-driven, and the suspense keeps you guessing as to what really is going on. The authors reveal hints slowly, and you commiserate with the characters as they pull their hair out trying to figure out the mystery.

I feel that the authors have improved on writing in general, as there weren't many extraneous scenes. As another reviewer had mentioned for a previous book in the series, it felt like the authors had written some scenes just for the sake of entertainment, even if they didn't add to the plot. In the case of Steelhands, I felt that all of the scenes contributed towards the plot, while at the same time being entertaining.

Unfortunately, I felt that the ending fell a bit flat; the resolution was fairly anticlimactic, leaving you saying, that's it? I think the authors still have some ways to go in terms of delivering an strong climax, rather than focusing on just writing interesting scenes.

Another criticism is that the authors had a penchant for turning all of the characters into lovable teddy bears. For example, it didn't seem believable that the Airmen who liked to terrorize/haze new recruits would also bring soup to said recruits when they were sick. The authors seemed to want readers to think that the characters are only hard on the outside, but that inside they were all softies, thus getting the reader to fall in love with them. I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I think the authors should challenge themselves to write characters that readers can love for another reason.

Anyway, I did enjoy this book, and I will continue reading future books in this series.
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Jan 12, 2013 Wendy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read a lot of entire series this year because I only just found out about them, so they are all a little entangled in my mind. This is one of them, so if it doesn't appear completely cohesive, I apologize.
****It does contain some spoilers***

I’m just going to come right out and confess I read these almost a year ago, but I really, really liked them at the time. The idea was very clever, I thought. Dragons that were built with a specific member of the flight corps in mind, in one case, the drag...more I read a lot of entire series this year because I only just found out about them, so they are all a little entangled in my mind. This is one of them, so if it doesn't appear completely cohesive, I apologize.
****It does contain some spoilers***

I’m just going to come right out and confess I read these almost a year ago, but I really, really liked them at the time. The idea was very clever, I thought. Dragons that were built with a specific member of the flight corps in mind, in one case, the dragon had been built for one man’s brother, but his brother had died and he was genetically close enough that he could ride the same dragon. The dragons and the riders learn each others’ personalities—despite the fact they have been engineered, the dragons are sentient and learn. The series starts with the whole corps having been disciplined for their appalling behavior at an important event which involved women and large amounts of alcohol. It is decided, then, that they need “etiquette training,” and a young professor is sent in to teach them, supposedly, everything they are supposed to know. Naturally he meets with resistance and insolence, a naïve professor and a hardened flight corps—no problems here. There are characters that are lost through the course of the series, some of which I was surprised to feel sad about even though their characters were at times annoying—they all fit a purpose within the corps to make it a cohesive group, and their loss changed that. Steelhands centers on one young corpsman who has lost his hands in the battle in the previous book, and has new ones made from the same metal the dragons are constructed from, and how he learns to adapt as everything is different now. Two of the original Dragon Corps have decided to stay in the desert where the final battle occurred, but they begin to uncover mysterious and disturbing things about the dragons, which they report back to their old commander. Despite the fact that the Dragon Corps could generally be referred to at the beginning of the series as a very motley crew of men, they were a motley crew of men who depended and trusted each other to cover their backs, and they genuinely cared for each other. The idea of the importance of human interaction and relationships continues in Steelhands. Jones and Bennett have created a wonderful world populated by interesting people and creatures. I was lucky enough to have found out about the series when Steelhands was released, so was able to read all of them at once (one after the other, that is). I think sometimes that’s the most marvelous way to read books—to suddenly discover a new series that already has a few books out and just become inundated in their world, which was easy in this case. The characters are so different, yet fully realized, there is just enough description where is doesn’t become tedious, and the world-building is such that it makes perfect sense that these dragons exist. I’m hoping Steelhands isn’t the last one in the series, as I’m curious to learn more, but if it is, I’m very happy to have read the ones that are here.(less)

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Aug 28, 2012 SSirppi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: glbt-themed

I'm having some mixed feelings about Steelhands. It's definitely amazing book. However, the first half was better than the end. Two of the narrators played minor roles in Havemercy, ex-chief sergant Adamo and ex-airman Balfour shower us with nostalgia. The fresh voices belong to university students Laure and Toverre.

I didn't like Balfour that much in Havemercy and event though he has grown some backbone he isn't too close my favourite characters -list. The moments when he thought times in airma...more

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Sep 14, 2012 Denise rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own, read-2012, favourites

My favourite of the series so far along with Havemercy! This one finally takes us back to Thremedon where the story picks up when Balfour receives the letter sent by Thom about his and Rook's latest adventures in Dragon Soul. POV characters in this installment are Balfour and Adamo, two of the surviving members of the Dragon Corps, along with two new additions to the cast: freshly arrived from the country as part of a newly started scholarship programme at the 'Versity, tomboy Laure and her clea...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Ashley rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dragons, fantasy, high-fantasy

Sometimes I really wish Goodreads allowed us to give half-stars. I'd love to give Steelhands a 2.5.

As much as I enjoyed the previous Havemercy books--particularly the first--this one just didn't click as well. Many of the smaller issues that I had with the characters and the writing in previous books seemed somehow amplified in this one, and honestly none of the new characters interested me in the slightest.

Well, and I'm not really a big fan of the way every little detail is explained to readers...more Sometimes I really wish Goodreads allowed us to give half-stars. I'd love to give Steelhands a 2.5.

As much as I enjoyed the previous Havemercy books--particularly the first--this one just didn't click as well. Many of the smaller issues that I had with the characters and the writing in previous books seemed somehow amplified in this one, and honestly none of the new characters interested me in the slightest.

Well, and I'm not really a big fan of the way every little detail is explained to readers: why a person said what they said, why they thought what they thought, or did what they did. Everything has to be explained, justified, as though the characters are almost making excuses for every action they take. Started driving me batty after a while. It leaves no room for interpretation; there's no way to read into a characters actions on your own because everything is laid out for you. I'm sure the authors never intended this, but I was constantly getting the feeling that they just assume their readers are too unobservant, are too judgmental, or lack enough understanding to "get" the characters.

(view spoiler)[Toverre's obvious OCD really bothered me at first because I didn't realize that he was OCD and just sort of thought he was an anal-retentive little prick, but after a while it just sort of... becomes okay. He's OCD; deal with it. That sort of thing. But Laure sort of moved in the opposite direction. I started off with really high hopes for her as this sort of strong female lead, but during the last third or fourth of the book, she just got a bit ridiculous. I'd love to have a discussion about this and be proven wrong--because I want to like her--so I'm just going to go on ahead and voice what bothered me about Laure. Basically I'm complaining. I have no one with whom I can talk about this book, and I've been holding all this in for way too long.

So I'm just... not really sure whether or not I like her. At first, she seems like an admirably strong enough female lead: tough, smart, opinionated, doesn't take shit from anyone, whatever. But as the narration progresses, her crassness starts to go a little overboard at times and becomes downright annoying at others--especially when it's directed at established characters who, honestly, are just being themselves. (This probably has a lot to do with the fact that I've a positive bias towards the airmen, but still.) It just seemed odd, the way her common sense (the sort that any normal person might possess) and vaguely applied logic often stumps other characters, including the very capable ex-Chief Sergeant Adamo. For all the way he's talked up by other characters as the pragmatic leader, it doesn't seem like it takes much to bring him down. (Though it might be because he's distracted by her because she's so goddamn beautiful, a fact that Toverre is constantly pointing out.)

Her headstrong personality has her "taking the reins" quite a lot, as Balfour notes. Which would be great, really, except that she's just about always the least informed and least experienced person in the room--apart from perhaps Toverre. It's fantastic to be assertive--who doesn't love assertive female characters?--but perhaps assuming a leadership position isn't the wisest course of action when you're the most ignorant (I mean this literally and not as an insult) and inexperienced member of the party. Isn't that also a part of being smart--knowing when to yield? And granted, she does provide a good plan for the assault on the Esar's secret lair and for Adamo's rescue, but then I feel like it's just down to that thing about common sense again. It was a good idea and it worked, but it was also very simple, very logical. So why did none of the other, considerably more experienced characters think of it? Realistically, wouldn't that have made more sense? Or is Laure just really incredible prodigy strategist? I guess it's just a matter of opinion, but it really bothered me that it's not so much that Laure is exceptionally smart as much as all the other characters seem to have been really dumbed down to make her seem that way.

And I honestly got a bit sick of the six billion parallels the other characters keep drawing between her and Adamo. Stop it, guys. Just stop. We get it already.

Laure in the whole last part of the book just... annoyed me. Like the writers were forcing her into this sort of Adamo-inherited Leadership Position of Awesomeness, and the only way they knew how was to 1) have all the other characters compliment her every chance they got, 2) turn her into Girl!Adamo, and 3) turn down the intelligence level of all the other characters in order to make Laure seem like the smartest person in the room.

As I said, I'd love for someone to please come along and civilly argue against what I've said because I really have tried to like Laure. I want to like her. It just didn't work out that way. (hide spoiler)]

All that said, I enjoyed the book well enough. Loved the airmen, as always, though I had a few gripes about Adamo's narration that I won't get into because this ~~review~~ rant is already much too long. If you enjoyed the previous books, you will... probably? enjoy this one. But unless Havemercy #5--if there ever is one--gets some seriously stellar recommendations, I doubt I'll be picking it up.(less)

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Sep 08, 2011 Jacque rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who love fantasy or science fiction.

This was a very good book. It had a slow start for me but it was still a very good book. I loved the book. It had a good plot and a wonderful story. I think that it was one of the better books of this type that I have read.
The story is about dragons and the people who rode them. Then the new set of dragons and the people who are claimed by them. To say much more would give away the book and that is never good. IT has a good plot. It kept me interested.
This book was able to entertain me and keep...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Teeuhh rated it 5 of 5 stars

Be still my heart. Laure + Adamo + Secret Return of Favorite Airman from Havemercy + Antoinette = YES. LOVE how the society and books is/are slowly showing how women DO matter and how much power they can wield, despite what the books are known for.

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Dec 22, 2012 Shannon rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads, confusing-as-hell, books-i-own

Won this book on first reads...

I'll be honest, I couldn't bring myself to finish this book. I thought it was a bit boring and more importantly I was very confused. Because it's fantasy there were weird names used for people, places, items, etc. It was to the point that I couldn't tell if the name was for a person or place. The only reason I didn't give this one star was because I haven't read the previous books and can't totally blame them if I was confused. I had no idea this book was the 4th i...more

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Jul 04, 2011 Kimberly Morghan rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book had an interesting plot with a mystery to solve and several interesting characters who all get fairly equal coverage. I like how both authors used the technique of moving from narrator to narrator with the plot gradually coming together and each narrator offering a different piece to solve the overall conspiracy. The ending was a bit quick, leaving plenty of material to be explored in other books. There was also quite a bit of hinting at action from previous books which makes me want t...more

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Oct 22, 2012 Dragon Eyes Loves Manga rated it 4 of 5 stars

Witty and sarcastic as well as beautifully constructed as I have come to expect of Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennet. Another good one.

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Aug 23, 2011 Laura Bailey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Like coming home to Havemercy - Jaidani have struck the right blend of characters this time, and I can't wait to see their next novel.

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Dec 26, 2012 Anthony Faber rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not quite qas good as the first 2 books of the series (SFPL doesn't have the third) and the ending was a bit rushed and cliff-hangerish, but still a decent book.

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Nov 11, 2012 J.r rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was an alright book, definitely not one of my favourites though. I'm not entirely sure why I started reading it in the first place, since I am not a fan of these authors. I'm not too sure about their writing style. They seem to go on and on about nothing, thus their books get boring. I also didn't much like the new characters. Both of them seemed too dumb for my liking, even though in the book they were being portrayed as being intelligent, but their actions sure didn't show it. Overall, it...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Lulu rated it 1 of 5 stars

I had trouble reading this book. It just did not do it for me.

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May 25, 2011 Renher marked it as to-read

I won this book from First Reads. Looks like a good book. Thank you.

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Jaida Jones is a graduate of Barnard College, where she wrote her thesis on monsters in Japanese literature and film. A poet and native New Yorker, she had her first collection of poetry, Cinquefoil published by New Babel Books in 2006. she also writes the Shoebox Project - a Harry Potter fan website with more than five thousand subscribed members.

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