Magic Bites
This was a decent book. Entertaining but not enthralling. I can definitely understand how some people find it boring.The main heroine is awkward but admirable for her guts. She's not the smartest cookie, but she's still a good cookie. Most of all, she seems very human, which is kinda ironic since the book hints that she's not human.
The middle keeps my attention the most, and I am expecting Crest to become a villain in the future books, but I'll have to read them to discover the truth. I wonder if he has minty fresh breath. The beginning was a bit hard to get into, and I sort of lost interest towards the big final boss scene. However, the ending sort of makes up for the murky boss scene.
The world-building is confusing. It seems like a lot was left out, and it's unclear what exactly magic and tech are. They alternate in waves, but there seems to be an irregular mechanism behind their somewhat unpredictable patterns. Why did the sword have hissy fits after touching a supernatural being? Why did it have to be fed, and how did it survive after only being fed once? There are unanswered questions to say the least. The People's side of the story seems to drop off the map.
And I really did not need to know that much detail about the characters' appearances. Absorbing that much detail became an exasperating chore after a while.
The whole everyone wants to sleep with everyone felt unnecessary. And oh, of course the villain is this unfortunate character who has a masculinity complex. Even Curran seems to have one. I mean, seriously, what even is this? Perhaps Curran and the villain are foils and use their masculinity in different ways. Perhaps this whole situation could have been avoided if they got in touch with their feelings and sang kumbaiyah around a camp fire.
So, yes, decent, my good book.
