Book Review, Finished Reading Eternally

I'm not completely recommending it, but I'm not going onto Amazon and posting a negative review, either, because I think that's rude. Ive seen people do that and it makes me wonder if they just sit in their parents' basements coming up with ways to bring Karma down on themselves or something.I mean, it's one thing to dislike a book, state it's weaknesses, and also state it's strengths in a public market place, but I've seen some of these people just diss a writer in ways that are meant to do harm. That sucks.

My take on Eternally by Maureen Childs is that her agent or someone must have said, make the hero like a vampire, but not really. And make the heroine almost useless, like a Bond girl in that she screws up and gets Bond caught by the bad guy at the end so Bond has to look dashing and heroic. The thing is, Kieran (who I'm equating to an impotent Bond) doesn't save his own skin. I don't want to give away the ending, in case someone else out there wants to spend three or four hours on a paranormal romance. I mean, it's not a waste of time! It's a decent romp if you're looking for quick, fun, romantic-in-the-right-spots, stuff.

I guess I just really wanted Kieran to turn great at the end. I wanted him to step up to the plate. I wanted the cherry on top. He was a decent enough hero to make me root for that heroes ending. I really wanted the heroes ending! He was the one supposed to be saving the damsel in distress throughout the book anyway…

Alright. Now that I've said that bad thought, let me tell you that I thought Julie Carpenter, the heroine, did a kick-ass job of holding it together when, at the beginning of the book, to set the story in motion, some demon freak murders her roommates. Let me tell ya, Maureen describes something I wouldn't want to wake up to! And Maureen did a great job throughout the whole book with describing stuff so you always knew exactly what you were looking at, exactly what the charactesr were seeing and going through. She's a great writer and, in this humble reader's opinion, did a real fine job with the story. Just because I was disappointed in the ending doesn't mean I hated the book by any means.

So there's my assessment of the latest I've had time to read. It's not exactly what I'd call fantasy, so it's out of my usual ballpark. I'll pick another off the shelf. In the meantime, anyone reading this can leave a comment or start up a discussion about Eternally here!