So there is a reason that Peeves in Harry Potter has the
name that he does. He strikes at the
most inopportune times and is annoying every single time. My pet peeve does the same. What is it you might ask… books with cliffhangers
where the next book isn’t written yet!
UGH!
I started the Unholy
Alliance series by accident. I found
a short story (something I usually don’t even look twice at) and decided I
needed something short to fill in the gap between the last books I had read and
finding the next good series. It ended
on a cliffhanger! Once again, UGH! So I went out and found the rest of the
books. They came in a “boxed set”
(something I find ironic since they are all digital). So I jumped to the immediate conclusion that
a “boxed set” means the series is finished in its entirety…. NOT SO.
It turns out that the short story I had read was actually a
supplemental book in between the first two books of the series. And guess what EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. ends on a
cliffhanger!
The books are pretty good (minus the pet peeve part) except
that they really should have been written in 3rd person
omniscient. You do need to know what the
characters are thinking, but by the 3rd book (or is it the second novel
and the short story doesn’t count?) it is jumping between so many POVs that it
is really hard to keep up. And even when
it was only going between 2 POVs it wasn’t written well enough to pull it
off. The internal dialogs were too
similar.
But like I said, the storyline was good, and it has a very
good theme. The overall lesson of the
books is that everyone is lovable even if they don’t see it themselves. They are written by 2 sisters which I find interesting. Oh, and they deal with Vampires and Chasers (people
born to kill Vamps) so of course, I like them.
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