Riley Blackthorne. Kicking hell’s ass one demon at a
time....
Prod dets
Forsaken
Series: Demon Trapper series, book 1
Pub: 2011, St. Martin’s Press
Author: Jana Oliver
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 423 pp w/ 39
chapters
Age Range: YA [for older readers]
Synopsis
Riley
has always wanted to be a Demon Trapper like her father, and she’s already
following in his footsteps as one of the best. But it’s tough being the only
girl in an all-guy world, especially when three of those guys start making her
life more complicated:
Simon,
the angelic apprentice who has heaven on his side; Beck, the tough trapper who
things he’s God’s gift, and Ori, the strikingly sexy stranger who keeps turning
up to save her life.
One
thing’s for sure – if she doesn’t keep her wits about her there’ll be hell to
pay...
Thoughts
All
I can think about is that this was like a pilot to a show you really wanted to
see, but you still can’t quite figure out if you like it or not. Who your fav
characters are, what their real problem is. You do know that it’s going to get
juicy and it’s going to get fun. Or maybe that’s what you hope so that watching
the next episode on something that wasn’t...I don’t know, and that’s really the
problem isn’t it?
So
its set in 2018, the economy is shit, so most people are poor as. And to top it
all off demons are running round the place willy nilly, and that’s fun. I love
it. I love how well she made it like we really lived in that world. The here and
now of the book was the best part of it.
Her
and Beck’s relationship another, and honestly there’s something gotta be going
on with them in the future. One because I really hope it, and two because this
book (and I’m guess the next will be the same, or that would just have made
this book pointless) has them both as main characters (shit, they both have
their say, whatever you want to call it). And so it’s really got that ‘they
gotta be together’ shit. or maybe I’m not into the whole good boy crap, ‘cause
let’s face it, it may be okay to date one, but what fun are they to read? (Not
that I could date someone that good, and...yeah, no thanks).
It’s
one of those books that even though it’s got a lot in it, it doesn’t seem to
have anything. It’s left so much out and yet it’s not like you feel a loss.
Honestly it’s like I said in the first line, you just can’t wait till next week
when ep 2 comes on and you can see where there taking this.
It’s
also well written in a teen aspect but the acknowledgments say that P.C helped
and so, well, its prob’ly why.
I
wouldn’t say that it was a surprise. I honestly thought it would be a good book
to read, if I had given any real thought when I was buying this that I should
have waited like a week and gotten book two along with it I would have. And now
I’m so glad that it’s there because I will have to get it, just ‘cause I need
my fix. It’s like a show; honestly I haven’t come out of a book with this type
of feel. One that both glad for the wait but I really do what more now.
Series
[tb], Forbidden,
Forgiven, Foretold
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