Future doesn't do it for me.

[Susana]

I kept going back thinking I had missed a book or some books in this series.Jumping 20 years from Mira being a child at Christmas to an adult just didn't do it for me. I think Lara missed opportunites for books as they settled into the new place then suddenly in Edge of Dawn they don't live there any more, but someplace else.How can we keep track when there is no storyline to follow? All the way through the book I felt like I had missed books with the youngsters growing up, moving to new HQ wars with humans etc....Disappointed in this one.

[~*~Princess Nya Vasiliev~*~]

I stopped reading the series after I read this one. I didn't feel like I missed out on anything per se, while reading this one though. I just felt like the series as a whole had lost steam. If I'm being honest, I was disappointed or let down a bit on several fronts with the last 3 or 4 books, before this one came out. I read this one in hopes that maybe cos LA was jumping ahead 20 years that she would have gotten her stride back with the series somehow. But for me, this book was just the same ol' thing just a bit more lackluster with the characters & in a different time as far as the series "world" is concerned.

There were aspects of this one that I loved & that kept me intrigued. But after reading it, I decided I most likely wouldn't return. I know I'm not a die hard fan for this series anymore. And I haven't been for some time even before reading this one.

I'll always have my faves in this series, but unfortunately overall it just couldn't keep my interest.

[Heather]

I agree the jump was jarring and confusing and she could have had a few books using secondary characters that helped smooth the transition but showed you glimpses of the society and familial changes over time. It seems like she has scattered the original group to the four winds and that gets confusing for me especially keeping track of which set of parents belongs to which character after you get past the original three from the first arc. What I don't like is that while their parents are in the four corners of the globe all the kids managed to go back to Boston. I think she missed an opportunity to support her global story line by not having the kids around the globe as well.

I am willing to sticking it out a bit to see if it starts to get less confusing as you learn about the kids. Nathan's book better to me but she is certainly building the larger story line where as in the first arc she didn't really start that until the fourth book because she had only sold three books of the series to begin with. I hope that she can figure out how to keep the characters from her first arc from fading into the background.

[Susana]

Yes the characters don't age so can have multiple adventure and be revisited if she works it right. I am reading 11.5 at the moment and that is ok but I do think too many strands and too many main characters can make things confusing.

[Monika]

Susana wrote: "I kept going back thinking I had missed a book or some books in this series.Jumping 20 years from Mira being a child at Christmas to an adult just didn't do it for me. I think Lara missed opportuni..."


Well, partially I must agree. The jump in time was unexpected and a bit confusing in the beginning. Then I got used to it and I must say that I liked this kinda dark world Lara Adrian created here.
Mira & Kellan? Liked them a lot and their chemistry.

BUT! Taking into consideration the whole story presented in Edge of Dawn it is a nice start to a good spin-off series and not a continuation to Midnight Breed. New characters, new problems, new time reference, just glimpses of old crew - yeah, it begs to be called a spin-off. All the more after the ending of Darker After Midnight, which for me was nicely closing the whole story of the Order.

[hIpnoticraQs]

ditto