Review: 4.5 Stars - Smooth, disturbing, intriguing, fresh and solid.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
ACTUAL: 4.5 starsSmooth, disturbing, intriguing, fresh and solid. I could run out of adjectives describing Dark Genesis, but I'll try to control my inner fan girl over this novel. I was nervous about reading a PNR with slavery at its core. Yeah, I'm one of the people sensitive to that time period in American history not because I think we should forget it, but because of how truly horrible humans were to humans. Any time you have people being beasts to other people, it makes me ill. ANYWAY... I couldn't ignore (and I tried) the potential WTF of this premise. How would the author mix the paranormal with this setting?I finished Dark Genesis in TWO DAYS. I couldn't stop reading, and I am writing this with so many slices of the story in my head that it's a little tough to concentrate. You can read other reviewers if you want a deep breakdown of the plot. I'll only add if you want to really push yourself to see how diversity in the paranormal/urban fantasy genre can be done well, THIS is one novel to check out.And I didn't give it 5 stars because I didn't like the ending. After such an amazing ride, I felt the story concluded too quickly instead of provided a well-deserve slow bow. The ending here works, but yeah. I'm greedy and I was sad the story was ending.