Review: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's . . . the characters of Thaumatology (but in spandex)
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2014
I have to admit that I see most of this author's works as falling into the guilty pleasure: an almost fluffy combination of softcore erotica and sci-fi/fantasy geek fun.  Doing a superhero(ine) sequence is right up Teasdale's alley.  I get more fun out of them than most books at this price, that's for sure.Unfortunately, I did have some issues with this book.  First, the perspective shifts (bouncing from one character to another) happen way too often, making it really hard to get any kind of rhythm going while reading the book.  It was a big complaint that I had toward the end of the Aneka Jansen series, which I hoped the author had outgrown.  With two main characters and a couple of secondary characters all getting face time, it got . . . well, not difficult, but frustrating at time to follow the action.  Also, while the tension between the primary main character and her roommate was inevitable, it wasn't handled as well as it was in the Thaumatology books and felt very glossed over at the end.  Also, there were a lot of secondary characters that were introduced that didn't seem to fulfill a real purpose, and it would probably be better for the author to really develop the primaries and then save the plethora of other ultras for later.Still, overall, I found it to be an intriguing enough setup (particularly for the price) that I'll probably give the series another chance.  Hopefully the author will stop the perspective bouncing or at least tone it down, because that's the most problematic element that I found so far.