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This book was just ... boring. And that's an odd thing to say about a book that is about a private investigator, witches, ghosts, purgatory, monsters, and vampires. At first I thought she was just setting up the story, and it would get going soon, so I kept reading, but it continues to drag. There's too much set-up, too much detailed dialogue about nothing much, and most of all, the main character never really seems to be surprised or alarmed. She SAYS she is, but I just don't FEEL it. Even when
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2.5. It started off better than it ended. The main character is interesting and well-developed (which is good, since the novel is in the first person), but the supporting characters much less so. "The Grey" never really seemed terribly well fleshed-out as a place or a concept, and so the main character's struggles to understand and deal with it didn't really connect. I may try another book in the series to see if this issue resolves as the series continues, but I'm not totally sold.
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Very disappointed, the book started off with an interesting story and a protagonist who was being introduced to the "grey world" that she was thrust into by a head injury. All of this was intriguing and a page turner. Then suddenly the book changed into a full fledged fantasy with vampires, witches, and magical happenings. The explanation of 'nexus' and the ranking of creatures in the grey world became increasingly murky and uninteresting. Not my kind of book.
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An average book with an average heroine. I'm used to much stronger and much more courageous female characters in urban fantasy. By the end of the book, I was rather sick of hearing how frightened/scared/desperate Harper was and how the Grey and everything connected to it felt cold/nauseating/bad. And seriously, how many times can you encounter the weird and supernatural and refuse to believe in it before you start sounding like a moron? I was tired of her whining about just how much she didn't w
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A good start to the series, I think she struggles a bit with defining the world she's working in, but this gets better as the series goes on.
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Feb 11, 2008
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