Hell Bent (Broken Magic, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Mar 15, 2013 Larissa rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, to-review, netgalley, requested-review-done

{Originally Posted at Welcome to Larissa & Friends' Bookish Life

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I am a huge fan of Devon Monk's Allie Beckstrom series, so when I read that Shame was getting his spin-off... I was over the moon!

I loved Hell Bent, I loved getting a glimpse into the characters I fell in love with through the years and also meeting a host of new characters and getting to know this new, post-catastrophe world.

Shame was always a favorite of mine and I worried that his darkness would make a not so enjoyab ...more

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Jan 01, 2014 Daffodil rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, magic-users

While it's not absolutely necessary to have read the Allie Beckstrom series first, I wholeheartedly recommend doing so. I came to know and care about the majority of the characters while reading the first series and feel a lot of the complexity in the relationships would be lost without having the background explored previously. For some readers it might make a difference between seeing Shame as a self-pitying whiner or as a man who was broken, killed and returned irrevocably changed by the even ...more

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Nov 15, 2013 Alyssa Ricks rated it really liked it

This is the first book from Shame's point of view, about three years after the last Allie book ended, and we are seeing the consequences of that final battle and how everyone is holding up/getting on with their lives.

I liked getting to see through Shame's eyes and look forward to the rest of this spin-off series. ...more

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