Book Review: Zero Hour (Order of the Dragon - Book 0.5)
Zero Hour (Order of the Dragon – Book 0.5) by Tina Glasneck
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: Novella-length
Summary: After the death of her estranged father, Leslie attempts to resurrect him using the ancient tome passed down through her family to gain some closure after his death. But the resurrection spell calls all of the supernatural monsters in the world to her like a magnet. And they are intent on killing everyone around her to get to her and the tome. As part of a clandestine supernatural law enforcement, Killian is assigned to find what has all of the monsters so agitated.
Comments: The first chapter was epic! Totally made me an instant fan! I loved how gutsy and irreverent Leslie was, marching into the funeral, surrounded by family all resentful of her, and attempted to wake her father from his casket. And I loved all of the dirty details of her family and her father’s life. And then the body in the casket moved.
And then we switched to Chapter 2. A standard run-of-the-mill clandestine supernatural law enforcement headed by wolf-shifters, dragon-shifters, and vampires *yawn*. It’s always those three. If I had a dime for every clandestine supernatural law enforcement I’ve run across in indie fiction, I’d be rich. And Killian is the stereotypical handsome, aloof, toughest of the toughest, best of the best, with a royal pedigree *yawn*. All the history and names and supernatural politics suddenly get dumped on the reader and I just started skimming chapters *double yawn*. Leslie, sadly, after her epically gutsy beginning turns into a damsel-in-distress, just standing there stupidly as creatures attack. Zero Hour doesn’t entice me to continue the series that this is a prequel for. I think I really lost respect for Leslie when it got pointed out that her objective for raising her dad from the dead was closure. Seriously Lady? You tried to change the laws of nature just so that you’d feel better about his death? Of all the Karen things.
4 stars
Category: New Adult
Note: Novella-length
Summary: After the death of her estranged father, Leslie attempts to resurrect him using the ancient tome passed down through her family to gain some closure after his death. But the resurrection spell calls all of the supernatural monsters in the world to her like a magnet. And they are intent on killing everyone around her to get to her and the tome. As part of a clandestine supernatural law enforcement, Killian is assigned to find what has all of the monsters so agitated.
Comments: The first chapter was epic! Totally made me an instant fan! I loved how gutsy and irreverent Leslie was, marching into the funeral, surrounded by family all resentful of her, and attempted to wake her father from his casket. And I loved all of the dirty details of her family and her father’s life. And then the body in the casket moved.
And then we switched to Chapter 2. A standard run-of-the-mill clandestine supernatural law enforcement headed by wolf-shifters, dragon-shifters, and vampires *yawn*. It’s always those three. If I had a dime for every clandestine supernatural law enforcement I’ve run across in indie fiction, I’d be rich. And Killian is the stereotypical handsome, aloof, toughest of the toughest, best of the best, with a royal pedigree *yawn*. All the history and names and supernatural politics suddenly get dumped on the reader and I just started skimming chapters *double yawn*. Leslie, sadly, after her epically gutsy beginning turns into a damsel-in-distress, just standing there stupidly as creatures attack. Zero Hour doesn’t entice me to continue the series that this is a prequel for. I think I really lost respect for Leslie when it got pointed out that her objective for raising her dad from the dead was closure. Seriously Lady? You tried to change the laws of nature just so that you’d feel better about his death? Of all the Karen things.
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