Three Days to Dead (Dreg City, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Dec 27, 2009 Literary Ames rated it it was ok

Shelves: series-abandoned, 1st-in-series, urban-fantasy, vampires, read-in-2010, death-reapers-zombies, do-not-own

A brilliant first chapter and an intriguing concept but this book just didn't do it for me. The story dragged and became never-ending. The outcome was completely predictable. The body count was HUGE. If I had to read this again I'd be tallying the number of bodies.

The blame game grew tiresome. Evy and Wyatt were both victims of manipulation so none of what takes place is their fault but they keep blaming themselves and each other until I just wanted to slap them.

Untangling the conspiracy was c ...more

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May 19, 2012 Lisa Kay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: genre-romance-paranormal, 2012-in-2012-group-challenge, m-audio-loupe-ysi, reviewed-by-me, theme-amnesia-or-not, character-fae-fairies, genre-urban-fantasy, xyzcover-weapon, authors-k, authors-s

★★★★✰ (This is a review of the audiobook.) Xe Sands does a very nice job of reading this one. There are a lot of otherworldly voices, since the protagonist is a Dreg Hunter, which is like a paranormal creature bounty hunter. Vamps, trolls, Fey, weres, goblins, gremlins, gargoyles, gnomes – doesn’t matter which mythical being – they cross the line, she goes after them. I liked the variety and Ms. Sands handles them well.

As far as the story line, I am really conflicted on rating this one. I almo description

★★★★✰ (This is a review of the audiobook.) Xe Sands does a very nice job of reading this one. There are a lot of otherworldly voices, since the protagonist is a Dreg Hunter, which is like a paranormal creature bounty hunter. Vamps, trolls, Fey, weres, goblins, gremlins, gargoyles, gnomes – doesn’t matter which mythical being – they cross the line, she goes after them. I liked the variety and Ms. Sands handles them well.

As far as the story line, I am really conflicted on rating this one. I almost gave it three stars. It started out great, with a unique and interesting premise: resurrected in not only a morgue, but a drug users body – seriously? Then add the fact your flashback memories are “iffy.” In addition, the clock is ticking on if you get to keep this body or not.

Unfortunately, I had to set it aside to read another book and when I picked it back up, it just wasn’t doing it for me. Yet, it got better again toward the end and had some nice twists. Of course, it is – excuse the pun – a “dead” giveaway that the kick-ass protagonist, Evy Stone, is going to make it because this is the first book in the Dreg City series. Still, there was some mystery as to who killed her and why, with which body she will continue her life as a Dreg Hunter, and how she will survive. That, and the beginning, are the reasons I gave it four stars; since my library has the rest of the series, I’m sure I’ll continue with it.

BTW, it is very violent. I don’t know why I say that; I’ve read other violent urban fantasy books; however, I felt this one was just brutal in places. Ms. Meding doesn’t handle violence and brutality as deftly as Ms. Biggs does. Plus, and you may consider this stupid, (view spoiler)

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Dec 14, 2011 Mafi rated it it was ok

Shelves: eng, ebook, 2011, dnf

I gave up... -.-

O livro é interessante, mas o resultado final deixa muito a desejar. Tudo começa quando Evangeline renasce no corpo de Chalice e não se recorda do que aconteceu, encontrao companheiro de casa de Chalice, Alex, que apesar de acreditar na palavra de Evy tmb não se lembra do que aconteceu. Evy encontra o seu parceiro de trabalho, Wyatt que tmb não sabe o que aconteceu que depois encontram Isleen que tmb não sabe o que se passou! Tão a ver o que acontece neste livro? Nada! Até à pági ...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Lisarenee added it

Will review later

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May 22, 2010 Lily rated it liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy

***1/2 I liked this book. It is just above average, in my opinion. Somewhat original premise. romance was ok to good. I thought this book had flashes of greatness, mixed in with uneven pacing and engaging charicters and a nice take on the fair ones. I am anxious to read next to see if it gets better or fades in to average.

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