{"id":586,"date":"2008-06-01T18:20:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=586"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:38:05","slug":"witchling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/586","title":{"rendered":"Witchling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Witchling<\/em> (2006) Yasmine Galenorn<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Witchling\"<\/a>This book came up as recommended for me several times, and the story looked interesting, but something kept me from reading it.<\/p>\n

That something ended up being indifference.<\/p>\n

Which is really to bad, because this book had some definite strengths. The world in which the characters lived is an interesting one. The Fae have come out of the closet on Earth in the modern world, and the D’Artigo sisters, Mellony, Deliliah, and Camille, are half-human agents for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency (OIS). They each have their own powers, some genetic, some other, and they are still learning to combine their powers to work as a unified force.<\/p>\n

Yet as I was reading the book, I mostly just wanted to find out what happened and finish the book so I could go on and read something else. What problems did I have? First and foremost, I disliked the sex scenes and Camille’s obsession with sex. I also didn’t care for Camille’s obsession with clothing and how she looked. And as Camille was the main character, that meant I had to read quite a bit about her clothing and how hot she found all the men around her, and how all the men around her found her so hot.<\/p>\n

Yawn.<\/p>\n

And the sad thing is that if she hadn’t gone on so much about sex and clothing and how hot the men in her life were, I really would have enjoyed the story, because although t was often easy to guess where the story was going, at other times it took an unexpected turn that was really very good.<\/p>\n

So, I don’t think I’ll be looking for the rest of the books in this series.
\nRating: 5.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Witchling (2006) Yasmine Galenorn This book came up as recommended for me several times, and the story looked interesting, but something kept me from reading it. That something ended up being indifference. Which is really to bad, because this book had some definite strengths. The world in which the characters lived is an interesting one. 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