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A review by cmvorra
Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton
Did not finish book.
Did not finish at 21%
Life is too short to read bad books.
I haven’t rated this book because I don’t think it’s fair to rate a book on a DNF.
I couldn’t handle it. The writing was bad, the pacing of the story was… odd… and the chain of events all felt very contrived to get the main character where the author wanted them without much thought behind it or character development. Usually I like a character to get into circumstances that are convenient for the plot without my realizing it.
For example: The book starts with a scene where Anita’s asked by the local vampires to investigate something for them. She says no. Cut to her going to a stagette for a close friend. They end up at the vampire strip club, and it’s revealed that Anita HATES vampires but she goes in anyway. She’s concerned for her friend (the bride to be) who is very naive and knows nothing about vampires (that is the extent of her character development)… so in the middle of the stagette Anita opts to leave her good friend in the vampire strip club and go work a case…?… which she finishes up in about five minutes and then goes back to the strip club to find her friend has been taken advantage of by vampires (colour me shocked)… so Anita ends up fighting the vampires on stage while they try to attack her… which ends up with her backstage where they tell her that her good friend (who still has no character development) has been enthralled by a vampire and they’ll kill her if Anita doesn’t take the case she was consulted about at the beginning of the book. So she goes with them and ends up in a dungeon where the vampires (who supposedly want her help…?…) set wererats on her, who try to maim and rape her… our heroine escapes, and the vampires pull her out of the dungeon to talk to her. They bring her to another room to meet the master vampire at which point they ask her to help them… but instead of telling her what they want they bring out another necromancer (Anita is one also), and a corpse that he ressurected and get him to ask the zombie questions. Which doesn’t require Anita at all. The conversaation ends with two of the vampires freaking out and one of them trying to kill her and then telling her and the other necromancer to flee.
This is where I stopped reading. Because the synopsis I gave above is so disjointed and messy that I was just left feeling like I’d missed something and there was very little character development for anyone. It was very much “and then… and then… and then…”
Add to that descriptions like someone’s skin colour being described as “brownish ivory” and I couldn’t handle this book.
I wasn’t enjoying it and just had to give it up.
Life is too short to read bad books.
I haven’t rated this book because I don’t think it’s fair to rate a book on a DNF.
I couldn’t handle it. The writing was bad, the pacing of the story was… odd… and the chain of events all felt very contrived to get the main character where the author wanted them without much thought behind it or character development. Usually I like a character to get into circumstances that are convenient for the plot without my realizing it.
For example: The book starts with a scene where Anita’s asked by the local vampires to investigate something for them. She says no. Cut to her going to a stagette for a close friend. They end up at the vampire strip club, and it’s revealed that Anita HATES vampires but she goes in anyway. She’s concerned for her friend (the bride to be) who is very naive and knows nothing about vampires (that is the extent of her character development)… so in the middle of the stagette Anita opts to leave her good friend in the vampire strip club and go work a case…?… which she finishes up in about five minutes and then goes back to the strip club to find her friend has been taken advantage of by vampires (colour me shocked)… so Anita ends up fighting the vampires on stage while they try to attack her… which ends up with her backstage where they tell her that her good friend (who still has no character development) has been enthralled by a vampire and they’ll kill her if Anita doesn’t take the case she was consulted about at the beginning of the book. So she goes with them and ends up in a dungeon where the vampires (who supposedly want her help…?…) set wererats on her, who try to maim and rape her… our heroine escapes, and the vampires pull her out of the dungeon to talk to her. They bring her to another room to meet the master vampire at which point they ask her to help them… but instead of telling her what they want they bring out another necromancer (Anita is one also), and a corpse that he ressurected and get him to ask the zombie questions. Which doesn’t require Anita at all. The conversaation ends with two of the vampires freaking out and one of them trying to kill her and then telling her and the other necromancer to flee.
This is where I stopped reading. Because the synopsis I gave above is so disjointed and messy that I was just left feeling like I’d missed something and there was very little character development for anyone. It was very much “and then… and then… and then…”
Add to that descriptions like someone’s skin colour being described as “brownish ivory” and I couldn’t handle this book.
I wasn’t enjoying it and just had to give it up.