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<Spoilers ahead> This book is the start of a series. I have no problem with series. In fact, I like them. BUT, I do expect the books to somewhat stand on their own. Threads can continue, but this entire story just sort of ends with minimal resolution. Armstrong can be a strong writer, and I feel like her editor let her down here. Or maybe there was no editor. Ultimately, the potential of the world Armstrong created is undermined by basic story flaws.

The book is needlessly complicated. Paranormal omens, secret adoptions, a weird town with weirder occupants, serial killers, ancient secrets, biker gangs, gun fights, govt. plots, assassins,.... What? No circus could come to town? It's just too much. We don't need everything but the kitchen sink to keep our attention. And it's frustrating that the novel's heroine doesn't seem to notice or ignores most of this utter insanity.

Stylistically, there's shifting POV to characters we don't care about or don't know and it just dilutes the story. The author spends a paragraph describing the smell of a room, but we don't have enough physical description of the main character- Olivia- to picture her (other than hair color). Olivia is also only 24 years old but doesn't come across as someone so young. Even rich, educated millennials have their own way of speaking and common cultural references - here that's totally absent.

There are also some things about the very premise that aren't believable. The press want to talk to Olivia so badly they break into her house like a crazy mob? Meh. When she final gives a single interview they don't care about her at all. Huh? She's tied to the bed in the middle of the night by a nutso stranger in a seedy hotel and is over it in 30 seconds later? How?

Still, and this shows how good Armstrong's writing is, I want to know more about creepy Cainsville. She's planted those seeds firmly. Because I loved the Otherworld series and very much like the Nadia Stafford books, I'm going to give the next novel a try in hopes of more answers and less plot threads being hoisted my way.


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Omens Cainsville Kelley Armstrong 9781847445117 Books Reviews

I absolutely loved this book! It's rare I will take the time to really write a review for a book, more so because so many in the paranormal genre are often shallow reads with very similar story lines. Some heroine who is "chosen" in some way and falls for the angst ridden, hot, misunderstood bad boy. Blah already!
I have read a few of this author's other books and found them well written but I especially enjoyed the way this story played out. The story is paced well, with the right amount of details and humor throughout each chapter so you are really anxious to learn more, and yet you do have to think about all the pieces of information to really put the puzzle together. There is a perfect mix of mystery, action, unexplained supernatural, and a pace that makes it all work. There is romance and what's great about it is its built up perfectly- no sudden undying love within five minutes of meeting someone. Spare me that b.s. please.
I am looking forward to the rest of this series, great job on this first book!
I was hesitant to try this novel after having read the wildly varied reviews, but I've been a KA fan for years and wanted to see if this story was any good.

It was great!! On par with or better than many of her other works. I think people who hate this book are the ones who buy it expecting the same overtly magical and paranormal experiences that were delivered by the Otherworld series. That is not what this book is.

It is definitely a mystery novel, peppered with an underlying sense of the paranormal, providing most of the pages with the sense that there is something unseen lurking around the corner.

While there are no knockback spells or Aspicio half demons, there is instead the tip of an iceberg of a huge, engrossing world that is just waiting to be born.... and it looks like an awesome (yes, paranormal, too.) world, filled with faeries and brownies and fey, etc., and at the heart of it? A well-written main character in the process of growing up and discovering herself,surrounded by interesting characters with major depth that has, so-far, only been alluded to.

I loved that KA didn't show all her cards in this book and blast us with a watered down clone of the Otherworld. Kudos for trying something new and giving the audience a whole new experience, especially considering how successful the Otherworld was, and how ungrateful and unyielding fans can be when they are handed something that varies by even the tiniest bit from what they expect to be given.

I highly recommend giving this book a chance, providing you can remember the fact that this is something NEW.

It was a very enjoyable read.
<Spoilers ahead> This book is the start of a series. I have no problem with series. In fact, I like them. BUT, I do expect the books to somewhat stand on their own. Threads can continue, but this entire story just sort of ends with minimal resolution. Armstrong can be a strong writer, and I feel like her editor let her down here. Or maybe there was no editor. Ultimately, the potential of the world Armstrong created is undermined by basic story flaws.

The book is needlessly complicated. Paranormal omens, secret adoptions, a weird town with weirder occupants, serial killers, ancient secrets, biker gangs, gun fights, govt. plots, assassins,.... What? No circus could come to town? It's just too much. We don't need everything but the kitchen sink to keep our attention. And it's frustrating that the novel's heroine doesn't seem to notice or ignores most of this utter insanity.

Stylistically, there's shifting POV to characters we don't care about or don't know and it just dilutes the story. The author spends a paragraph describing the smell of a room, but we don't have enough physical description of the main character- Olivia- to picture her (other than hair color). Olivia is also only 24 years old but doesn't come across as someone so young. Even rich, educated millennials have their own way of speaking and common cultural references - here that's totally absent.

There are also some things about the very premise that aren't believable. The press want to talk to Olivia so badly they break into her house like a crazy mob? Meh. When she final gives a single interview they don't care about her at all. Huh? She's tied to the bed in the middle of the night by a nutso stranger in a seedy hotel and is over it in 30 seconds later? How?

Still, and this shows how good Armstrong's writing is, I want to know more about creepy Cainsville. She's planted those seeds firmly. Because I loved the Otherworld series and very much like the Nadia Stafford books, I'm going to give the next novel a try in hopes of more answers and less plot threads being hoisted my way.