Three Days to Dead Dreg City Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Kelly Meding Xe Sands Tantor Audio Books
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When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue---in a stranger's body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there---her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night, she and the other two members of her Triad were star bounty hunters---mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives, but also convinced the city's other Hunters that Evy was a traitor...and she can't even remember what it was. Now she's a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice---and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days, Evy will die again---but this time, there's no second chance.
Three Days to Dead Dreg City Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Kelly Meding Xe Sands Tantor Audio Books
The story itself is nothing special as far as fantasy novels go, but its entertaining and I liked it well enoughthe huge "but" that goes along with that is that this author knows absolutely nothing about many of the things she writes about. She makes reference to "juijitsu fighters" being amazing at throwing high kicks, but apparently terrible at joint locks, which is backwards, she constantly refers to revolvers as having "clips", by which she seems to mean "magazines", which is something revolvers don't have, literally every single gun in the book is a revolver, which is weird but whatev, and then she describes certain revolvers as being "Glocks". Glock doesn't make a revolver, in any caliber. Also bizarrely she seems to think that if you twist someone's arm behind their back you are then in the perfect position to "punch them in the heart", killing them instantly with one blow
Literally anyone who spent 5 minutes researching this stuff would know better, and every single time she says something that's so hilariously wrong it takes you out of the story.
Something else that takes you totally out of the story are a number of scenes where the author allows the characters to do something that is just flat out impossible. For instance, in one scene we are told that 2 people are in adjoining jail cells. there are 1" wide bars every 4 inches. The male can't even get his arms through the bar to touch the female, but she can get hers through to touch him. After being told that, we are then presented with 1) the male giving the female a back-rub somehow, 2) the male kissing the female on the head, and 3) the female slapping the male in the face, hard. None of those things are physically possible in the situation as its presented
on top of that this book suffers from a common problem in fantasy novels in that various monsters are introduced and not really fleshed out because we're expected to just know what they're like from other novels of the same genre. I find that to be super lazy and it makes the book come off like some kind of monster hunter's greatest hits collection, but that may not bother the rest of you
Anyway the book was ok but I would definately think twice before I bought anything else written by this person, because the odds are pretty big that it will be just as sloppily researched and written
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Three Days to Dead Dreg City Series Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Kelly Meding Xe Sands Tantor Audio Books Reviews
~* 3.5 Stars *~
You think dying is hard? Resurrection is a killer.
Dreg Bounty Hunter Evangeline Stone's memory is hazy about the events leading up to her death, but what she does remember isn't exactly chock-full of warm fuzzies. Genocide, betrayal, pain, loss. Hunted as a traitor, her team murdered, the friends who gave her shelter mercilessly slaughtered.
It was a nightmare she didn't survive.
Now she's been brought back, waking up in the morgue in a stranger's body with no clue who to trust and far more questions than she has answers. The one thing she does know is she's screwed either way. Being brought back is not without its consequences, after all, and she has only three days to solve her murder and figure out who betrayed her team, because as if resurrection wasn't complicated enough, it also comes with an expiration date.
In three days Evy will be dead...again.
~*~
Meding hits the ground running with this action-packed, ass-kicking series debut. The story drops readers into Evy's world just as she's been resurrected, then takes of at a sonic pace from there with an ultra-quick and dirty glance at the world and the events that preceded her death just pages before the plot really starts to get going. Once that happens, you pretty much have to hang on by your fingernails just to keep up as the time ticks down on Evy's new-life expectancy. There's certainly no rest for the weary as she races around searching for answers, trying to keep one step ahead of the people who are still trying to make her dead.
I enjoyed the world Meding created for her characters and the series. At least the glimpses I got of it. The break-neck pace of the plot didn't allow for a lot of in depth world-building...or much character depth, definition, or development either, actually. Maybe it's better said that I liked the idea I got of the world as it raced by my reading window. I can't say it's the most unique world I've ever read, as it resembles several other urban fantasy series in one way or another, and the heroine Evy is fairly interchangeable with those in other books, but that has its own comforts when it's a book in one of your favorite genres. And there were a few points of originality and elements based on a unique premise.
The first chapter or so seemed a little odd to me, though. The memories of Evy's life before she died were revealed in her first person narration in such a way that it made me feel like I'd missed an earlier book or a prequel or something. On one hand, I suppose that's a compliment to the author, for taking story building blocks and turning them into what felt like visceral memory for the character, but I found it jarring. And the echoes of those issues, with the ramifications of events in the past having an effect on the current events of the plot, were sprinkled throughout the narrative, shaking me out of the story now and then all the way through the book.
It was an ambitious, complex plot with a healthy number of secondary and ancillary characters, but because of the pacing, I found it hard to really feel connected to what was going on and to whom. My emotions didn't engage in the read as I was hoping they would. And like I said, there wasn't a tremendous amount of character depth or room for a lot of character or relationship growth. There was a thread of romance that wended through the plot that I appreciated, and I enjoyed Evy and Wyatt together, but there was so much going on around them that even the romantic elements weren't completely satisfying for me.
Evy handled herself well as the kick-ass heroine, but I can't say I was always thrilled with her as a character. There were moments when I found her a little unlikable, but then she would pull it back or shift gears and I could enjoy her more for the take-no-prisoners fighter that she was. I didn't have any such problem with Wyatt. I enjoyed him throughout the story. His strength and commitment to Evy, what he did for her and how he handled her and why, made me all mushy for the guy.
I do think the plot sort of got away from Meding late in the book. Not a lot, but just enough to muddy the waters a little, making it hard for me to keep solid track of everything that was going on and everyone it was affecting. With such a fast-paced tale, the characters don't have a lot of down time, and plot points are shot at you like bullets from a Tommy gun, which made it was hard to focus on the big picture sometimes. The final conflict and subsequent resolution were strong, though, and it definitely set up the following books in the series well.
There were several good things in this series debut, and while I can't say my issues with the lack of world-building and character definition, or my trouble with the emotional disconnect, allowed me to be completely satisfied with the read, it was better than an okay read. It served well as an introduction into a world with characters that I could probably really start to care about with more time invested. And it definitely had other points in its favor. With Evy in the driver's seat, new life-threatening or world-ending danger can't be far behind, and her and her friends and tentative allies have a lot of potential to stand out in a crowded field.
~*~*~*~
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The story itself is nothing special as far as fantasy novels go, but its entertaining and I liked it well enough
the huge "but" that goes along with that is that this author knows absolutely nothing about many of the things she writes about. She makes reference to "juijitsu fighters" being amazing at throwing high kicks, but apparently terrible at joint locks, which is backwards, she constantly refers to revolvers as having "clips", by which she seems to mean "magazines", which is something revolvers don't have, literally every single gun in the book is a revolver, which is weird but whatev, and then she describes certain revolvers as being "Glocks". Glock doesn't make a revolver, in any caliber. Also bizarrely she seems to think that if you twist someone's arm behind their back you are then in the perfect position to "punch them in the heart", killing them instantly with one blow
Literally anyone who spent 5 minutes researching this stuff would know better, and every single time she says something that's so hilariously wrong it takes you out of the story.
Something else that takes you totally out of the story are a number of scenes where the author allows the characters to do something that is just flat out impossible. For instance, in one scene we are told that 2 people are in adjoining jail cells. there are 1" wide bars every 4 inches. The male can't even get his arms through the bar to touch the female, but she can get hers through to touch him. After being told that, we are then presented with 1) the male giving the female a back-rub somehow, 2) the male kissing the female on the head, and 3) the female slapping the male in the face, hard. None of those things are physically possible in the situation as its presented
on top of that this book suffers from a common problem in fantasy novels in that various monsters are introduced and not really fleshed out because we're expected to just know what they're like from other novels of the same genre. I find that to be super lazy and it makes the book come off like some kind of monster hunter's greatest hits collection, but that may not bother the rest of you
Anyway the book was ok but I would definately think twice before I bought anything else written by this person, because the odds are pretty big that it will be just as sloppily researched and written
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