Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless

I miss this lake.

You may have noticed, astute reader, that there haven’t been any posts here for awhile. Well, that’s because I was reading the last three sequels to Soulless, and I figured I’d just review all of them at once, rather than one at a time because it’s more efficient. Also, being of the same series, they are all pretty similar, so we’d all be bored if I did separates.

And, of course, then my reading went slow because I had the paper versions of the books from the library, and I’m not supposed to read at work. And if my boss is reading this, I never read at work anyway, so actually that had no effect whatsoever on my reading rate.

*ahem*

So. Blameless, Heartless, and Timeless. I liked all of them better than I did Changeless. In general I loved that Alexia is a very strong woman throughout, and…aw, crap, that’s all spoiler stuff, isn’t it? Well, I like her. I liked her less in Blameless, but even that wasn’t so much that I didn’t like HER as it was that I did not care for the way the author chose to write about her state. Which I cannot go into detail without spoiling everything.

I’m also not too very keen on the way the author keeps shoving red herrings into the stories. Because they lead to nothing, they keep making the climaxes feel flat. It’s kind-of nice in the sense that the reader has to keep guessing about what’s going to happen, and try to figure out if path A or path B is going to lead to the Conclusion, but the best best stories are the ones where you have to take both path A and path B to get there. So, some vague disappointment there.

Otherwise, I like Alexia, like I said, and I like the world set-up, which I don’t know if I said, and I suppose I’ll read more (there’s some sort of companion series, isn’t there? I thought I heard that somewhere).

The End.