Eamon

Eamon by Martha Carr

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


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DNF at about the 33% mark. The book started out well. Our heroine got stabbed and almost died. Regrettably, her grandfather used dark magic go save her life. Then he had the decency to fall into a pool of water and drown. End of book, right? No. Despite being stone, cold dead, she is brought back to life ... presumably since the author didn't think she could make it to the end without her main character despite having a second plot involving a prison rescue on the go.

When I select books to read, I usually go to Goodreads and check the keywords. Things might have gone better had the author added YA to the list. Yes, the language was decidedly crude, but these days it seems children learn this vocabulary before even learning to read, so I don't consider the two utterly incompatible. My main problem with this book was the characters. None of them showed even the tiniest modicum of common sense. In the opening scene, the protagonist finds herself being held at gunpoint in a robbery. Using magic, the thwarts the would-be thief and dumps him in a rather deep hole of sorts, telling him he can stay there until the police arrive. Evidently the hole isn't quite deep enough because he jumps out and stabs her, but what bothered me was her choosing to turn her back on someone who had tried to kill her and who was still very much alive and not obviously injured to any serious degree. This sort of stupidity continues. Then, having received a stab would so serious it almost killed her, she goes back to work in three days. Now if the stab wound hadn't been intentional but, say, part of a medical operation, she'd have been told to life nothing and stay away from any activity which is even close to strenuous. Still, up she gets and back she goes. This is not someone to whom i can relate. I do not recommend this book.



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