Review: Moronic heroine and her homicidal hero
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2013
I've enjoyed the Kindred books so far, but this one has several problems from my prospective.  I appreciate that the author was going for a pair of imperfect protagonists, but this just seemed the wrong way to do so.  Also, this novel suffers from being a bridge novel between two major plot arcs.  I like getting the bits and pieces of info about the other characters, but sometimes it seems that their stories are more interesting than the so called main theme for that novel.  Merrick was fine until I realized how crazy he was. I can handle a certain level of crazy, but he takes the cake.  And Elise...she's an idiot.  She kept doing the exact opposite of what he told her and almost got him killed several times. Of course, he just took her back and didn't care that she seemed to be trying to get him slaughtered.  My favorite book was probably the second one with Slyvan and Sophie.  I will be reading the next books, but I hope they get better from here. And the ending bothered me, but no spoilers.  I really like the rest of this author's other series, in fact I hope she writes another YA novel soon.  The Academy was really good.  Give that one a try if you get the chance.