06 October 2011
REVIEW: Serpent's Kiss by Thea Harrison
serpent's
kiss
Thea Harrison
ISBN #: 978-0-425-24440-1
Publisher Name: Berkley Publishing Group
Date Released: October 2011
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Book
Format: Print.
BACK COVER BLURB:
In
the latest Novel of the Elder Races, a Queen on the brink of sanity has no one
to rely on except the Wyr warrior whose conviction is every bit as strong as
his passion . . .
In
order to save his friend's life, Wyr sentinel Rune Ainissessthai made a bargain
with Vampyre Queen Carling – without knowing what she would ask from him in
return. But when Rune attempts to make good on his debt, he finds a woman on
the edge.
Recently,
Carling's Power has become erratic, forcing her followers to flee in fear.
Despite the danger, Rune is drawn to the ailing Queen and decides to help her
find a cure for the serpent's kiss – the Vampyric disease that's killing her.
With
their desire for each other escalating just as quickly as Carling's instability
spirals out of control, the sentinel and the Queen will have to rely on each
other if they have any hope of surviving the serpent's kiss.
COVER SNARK:
Once
again. I don't like the cover models they use for these books. DON'T, DON'T,
DON'T.
FIRST LINES:
"I'm a bad woman, of course," said Carling Severan, the Vampyre sorceress, in an absent tone of voice. "It is a fact that I made peace with many centuries ago. I calibrate everything I do, even the most generous-seeming gesture, in terms of how it may serve me."
FAVORITE LINES:
"You could try to surrender to the experience and let change happen.""Change or die?" she said."Yes. Change or die.""You might have noticed, I don't do surrender very well,"
LYNETTE'S TWO CENTS:
Once
again, everyone and their mother has reviewed SERPENT'S KISS. And, I know that
nothing I'm going to say is going to stop you from reading this book, right?
So, I'm just going to give you my impressions while I read instead of boring
you to death with plot points.
SERPENT'S
KISS had a slow start. However, if you're familiar with my opinions, you'll
know that I believe all of Ms. Harrison's novels have a slow start. I'm
becoming somewhat familiar with her books going like this . . . . yada, yada,
yada, yada . . . WOW.
You
guys must also know that I am not the most perky person on the planet, as a
result I find perky heroine's kinda annoying as well. Can I just say, THANK
GOODNESS CARLING WAS NOT PERKY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I know a lot
of readers might be disappointed, but I was standing up doing cheers for this
change. As a result, I liked Carling a lot better than I did Pia or Tricks.
Give me an evil, vindictive b-tch with a heart of gold over an annoying perky
one any day. LOL.
I
also loved that SERPENT'S KISS seemed to be entirely focused on Rune and Carling
and them trying to find a way to keep Carling alive. There weren't a lot of
distracting side plots so that gave me the time to focus on Rune and Carling
and their developing relationship. I love it when authors focus on their
hero/heroine instead of their overall plot arc.
Things
that drove me crazy.
SERPENT'S
KISS is the first book in Ms. Harrison's series that I read in print instead of
in eBook format. WTF is up with the small print? It killed me. I'm already
nearly blind as a bat, but the small print was ridiculous. Really. What size
was the font? Six point? Come on publishers, please, please, please work on
that.
I
was disappointed with the ending. Because Carling was so kick-ass, I was
disappointed that no one really had to pay. I wanted Carling to kick butt and
take names. I get that love is supposed to soften you, but come on. Some of
those people really needed a beat down. That goes for Rune as well. He
should've given a certain person a beat down as well and I don't care who they
were. (Why yes, I'm trying to avoid spoilers here!)
Because
no one got their beat downs, in my opinion a lot of plot threads weren't
wrapped up as neatly as I would've liked. I don't know if they are going to be
resolved in later books. I hope so, and please don't keep us waiting long.
Despite
my quibbles, because of my relief that Carling wasn't perky. SERPENT'S KISS was
my favorite in the series to date. I can't wait to see what's coming next.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Come
back tomorrow as Thea Harrison will be my special INSIDE THE AUTHOR STUDIO
guest. She'll be giving away a copy of Serpent's Kiss to a lucky commenter.
Good Luck.
WHERE PURCHASED:
Received
from publisher for review.
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4 people posted their 2 cents:
I was one who was a tiny bit disappointed in Carling. But love this series!!
LOL. See I was so happy she wasn't perky that I loved her. I'm wondering if the series is going to get better or get stagnant. It's at that turning point where it could go either way.
I loved Carling too. Rune might even take some of my love away from Dragos after this book. Great post!
@Liza
Rune was pretty fantastic wasn't he.