Here begins my reviews for Kelley Armstrong's "Women of the Otherworld/Otherworld" series. These are definitely all reread reviews and I believe I at least attempted to keep them spoiler free. They also seem to have run rather short, so these posts will probably contain at least two books per post. Also, also, I know I did not review all of them and will probably not be adding reviews to round out my series of reviews due to having moved on from "Women of the Otherworld" and having read so much this year... things tend to run together if you don't take notes or write reviews immediately after reading so... yeah. Welcome to my reread reviews.
Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Okay so, this is probably my third or fourth
reread. I dunno what's going on with me but I just absolutely cannot
with Elena. She's incredibly selfish and hypocritical pretty much
throughout. I really hate how she treats Phillip, who she's apparently
in love with. Like, I get that it's a out-of-sight-out-of-mind sort of
thing, but it really should have been apparent to her MUCH earlier that
she didn't really care for him in that manner.
I also really hate
the way the Pack acts, Jeremy in particular. He got on my nerves this
time pretty much right out of the gate with his phone call shenanigans.
I'm sorry, you tell someone to call you back, maybe pick up your damn
phone. I understand that Jeremy's the Alpha, but good lord, man, keep
your people in the loop. It's no wonder Elena and her "lone wolf"
personality went off on her own to get Clay. If you don't keep lines of
communication open, you're inviting trouble.
Uhm, yeah, pretty much just came away this time feeling annoyed. Hopefully that doesn't continue on in Stolen.
Stolen by Kelley Armstrong
So, this book has a villain who is reprehensible
and one who’s just kinda… there all of a sudden, but not really, kinda.
You get to absolutely hate the one and not really care about the other.
Not sure that worked very well, to be honest. Not really sure if it’s a
spoiler to say that I think the villains went down fairly easily once
we got around to taking down the villains.
Aaand I spent a
majority of this reread inserting a character — who’s kind of introduced
here, but not actually — and forgetting who actually did all the
things, so that was a facepalm moment.
I did enjoy the world
building that happened, even if it was mostly via info dumps from
individuals. Building out from the werewolves is definitely a plus. More
female voices is definitely a plus.
Uhm… idk what else to say,
really. Elena was more enjoyable in this book than she was in the last,
but there also wasn’t as much inner monologuing from her. There seemed
to be a lot more actual dialogue going on.
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