Review: Urban fantasy by numbers
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 28, 2012
Normally I like to say that a story could have been good and then point out where it might have fallen short.  This book fell short in every way.  The main character had no personality outside of being kind-of annoying.  The plot was very paint-by-numbers, with the bad guys wanting "power" and a demon that was "evil."  There was no depth or nuance to anything.  The main character changed her mind about just about everything, sometimes seemingly at random.  The author used "fate" or "destiny" to explain why the character became involved, rather than actually developing the main character or doing any real plot development.  Throw in a completely random and arbitrary relationship that appears out of nowhere and involves characters with absolutely no chemistry, and you have a book that can say it was able to put checkmarks next to everything that an urban fantasy novel is supposed to have, but didn't do any of those things well.