Review: Great characters, shaky plot
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
The first third of this book was outstanding, great interaction between Charlotte, Lisabelle and Sip, and a very welcome visit with Ricky, who is hilarious - a great character.  Tough chick vampire princess Lanca plays a large role, and a formerly minor character, Dobrov is integral to the story and a very sympathetic character.There is lots of the standard snippy dialog between the main characters, which is great at first but wears a bit after a while - they may be in a battle etc., but are still working hard at making snarky remarks.The plot, however, is pretty weak, and the action never gets to the academy.  The demons are demons, just killing machines - so how can anyone support them or work to help them?  Somehow they do, but it never makes sense.  Far too often, characters act in a foolish or inconsistent way.  The ending of the book is particularly bad, just ending without logic, to set up the next book.Five stars for the characters, two stars for the main plot sequence.