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Angel Town (Jill Kismet, #6)
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This review will be for the whole series not just the last one, and there may be some spoilers.
To start off, I am going to mention that I love love *love* Lilith Saintcrow's work, I have read a lot of her books and each one bring something new and unique to the table and is written in Saintcrow's unmistakable writing style. This series was no exception. I absolutely adored Jill Kismet, she was a fun kick ass character, who constantly toed the line between good and evil and it was refreshing to read about a character who has inherently good intentions but struggles not to use cruel methods to solve her problems. Also, ALSO, I have no words to describe my feelings when Jill takes her own life in book 5, while I understand this may trigger some people, I also think it was masterfully done and completly in character.
Besides Jill, I also adored.... Perry. Surprise! I bet you thought I would say Saul, and while I did love him and all the other side characters, I found that they were all relatively flat compared Jill and Perry. But Perry, boy oh boy, what a masterpiece. He is the villain you love to hate, hate to love and kind of wish had gotten a redemption arc at the end of the series. Perry really was amazing in all of his glorious mindfuckery.
As you can probably tell by now, I really did enjoy this series (I read it in a week... so that should tell you even more), however I did have a few problems with it. For one, it was too long. I personally think this series could have been chopped up into 3 or 4 books with the whole Perry arc being tightened up a bit, as some of the middle books felt a bit like filler. My favourite books in this series were 1, 5, and 6. While books 2, 3, 4 were interesting they didn't have the oomph of the other three books.
Additionally, there were some aspects of the world/Jill's powers that were not mentioned in earlier books that suddenly became super important in later books. Like Banefire, I'm pretty sure it wasn't mentioned in the first few books even though it seems like it would have been useful early on. Also Jill's damnation, her potentially being damned if she crosses her moral line wasn't brought earlier even though that is also a fairly important detail. With these details only coming up in later books the whole arc of the series seemed a little unplanned.
That being said... I still loved it.
To start off, I am going to mention that I love love *love* Lilith Saintcrow's work, I have read a lot of her books and each one bring something new and unique to the table and is written in Saintcrow's unmistakable writing style. This series was no exception. I absolutely adored Jill Kismet, she was a fun kick ass character, who constantly toed the line between good and evil and it was refreshing to read about a character who has inherently good intentions but struggles not to use cruel methods to solve her problems. Also, ALSO, I have no words to describe my feelings when Jill takes her own life in book 5, while I understand this may trigger some people, I also think it was masterfully done and completly in character.
Besides Jill, I also adored.... Perry. Surprise! I bet you thought I would say Saul, and while I did love him and all the other side characters, I found that they were all relatively flat compared Jill and Perry. But Perry, boy oh boy, what a masterpiece. He is the villain you love to hate, hate to love and kind of wish had gotten a redemption arc at the end of the series. Perry really was amazing in all of his glorious mindfuckery.
As you can probably tell by now, I really did enjoy this series (I read it in a week... so that should tell you even more), however I did have a few problems with it. For one, it was too long. I personally think this series could have been chopped up into 3 or 4 books with the whole Perry arc being tightened up a bit, as some of the middle books felt a bit like filler. My favourite books in this series were 1, 5, and 6. While books 2, 3, 4 were interesting they didn't have the oomph of the other three books.
Additionally, there were some aspects of the world/Jill's powers that were not mentioned in earlier books that suddenly became super important in later books. Like Banefire, I'm pretty sure it wasn't mentioned in the first few books even though it seems like it would have been useful early on. Also Jill's damnation, her potentially being damned if she crosses her moral line wasn't brought earlier even though that is also a fairly important detail. With these details only coming up in later books the whole arc of the series seemed a little unplanned.
That being said... I still loved it.
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March 16, 2019
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March 17, 2019
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March 17, 2019
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