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Lane Robins

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14+ verk 825 medlemmar 41 recensioner 2 favoritmärkta

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Inkluderar namnen: Lane Robins, Lyn Benedict

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Verk av Lane Robins

Sins & Shadows (2009) 271 exemplar
Maledicte (2007) 243 exemplar
Ghosts & Echoes (2010) 107 exemplar
Gods & Monsters (2011) 76 exemplar
Lies & Omens (2012) 57 exemplar
Kings and Assassins (2009) 52 exemplar
Renovation (2015) 7 exemplar
A Soul Like Salt (2013) 3 exemplar
Reconstruction 2 exemplar
A Case in Perspective (2013) 1 exemplar
Ghoulish Works (2015) 1 exemplar

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Andra namn
Benedict, Lyn
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Miami, Florida, USA

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Like others, I have read this book feeling as if I'm joining a series in the middle. It's not a pleasant feeling. The author should have used any number of ways to indicate characters had a shared past other than the ones used.
 
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yonitdm | 12 andra recensioner | Jan 18, 2017 |
4.5/5
Lyn Benedict is such an understated author, and her books are awesome! They are everything I love about urban fantasy: a hard, kick ass, smart heroine, wonderful sidekicks, plenty of villains of magical variety and non-stop action.

If you haven't read previous two books, please do it first, because this review will contain spoilers for book 1 and 2.

The book literally starts where the previous left. Odalis is in prison and Sylvie takes on a seemingly easy case of disappeared wife. Aha! She thought her previous case would be boring, and we all know how it ended.

While investigating her case, Sylvie discovers that her client's wife is one of the several kidnapped victims, whose life energies are being drained by a sorcerer in a really bizarre ritual. The women look dead but they walk and they turn into wild animals.

The case quickly becomes extremely dangerous, what with the sorcerer mixed with gods, certain people bent on magical revenge and stupid ISI agents taking closer look at miss Shadows.

As usual it takes famous Shadows willpower to set things right, and apparently there is the new Lilith in town...

I loved it! The book is packed full of action and crammed with tension, with Ghoul and Marco playing Sylvie's sidekicks, and even my favorite Fury making a star appearance.

I also admire that Lyn Benedict isn't afraid to kill one of the characters in every book she writes. This just make the plot more real and the writing much more intense. The ending had such amazing possibilities that I can't wait to get my hands on the next book!

I would recommend it to any fan of urban fantasy. Just make sure you read first two books in order.
… (mer)
 
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kara-karina | 4 andra recensioner | Nov 20, 2015 |
Not a bad stopping point, if that's how it ends up.

Lots of things came to a head in this book, and the way it ends makes it equally possible that this is the end of the story or just the conclusion of the first arc. Given that the book was published over a year and a half ago, I am inclined to believe the former - and that's okay. Most of the loose ends got resolved, and the last chapter works in either case - as an epilogue or a teaser. Personally, I think trying to continue the series would probably be a bad thing. Sylvie works best in a certain kind of setting, and she no longer lives there. I understand there may be a spinoff book about what the Ghoul's been up to, and that's cool, but Sylvie just wouldn't be the same without having to deal with a world that...well, I can't say more than that without giving away the big spoiler.

Over all, the series was a solid read. Nicely chaotic when it needed to be, and it kept things from getting comfortable. Now that Sylvie shows signs of settling down, it's probably best that we let her do just that.
… (mer)
 
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RevBobMIB | 3 andra recensioner | Oct 21, 2015 |
Good book, somewhat spoiled by a bad blurb. Really, I hate it when the back cover text casually mentions a third-act reveal. Yes, I still enjoyed seeing Sylvie juggle three problems at once, but that back cover text had me expecting a completely different A-plot.

With that said, I did enjoy the book and am chugging right along to book three in the series.
 
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RevBobMIB | 6 andra recensioner | Oct 21, 2015 |

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Verk
14
Även av
1
Medlemmar
825
Popularitet
#30,925
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
41
ISBN
14
Favoritmärkt
2

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