Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.Sarcastic-sometimes devastatingly so-repartee connects readers to the band of surly teenage grim reapers risking everything on their mission to save the Afterlife.
The snarky humour was gone, so there wasn’t much to balance out all the loss and death that kept happening.Īnd even the afterward did not tie up and address the main characters in a way that put the full-stop after The End.
This was not the concluding novel that I was hoping for. I think there was just too much going on in some places. Character reactions were all over the place, motives kept changing, some scenes were just messy. The cast are on the run from place to place, and there was no thread to anchor the narrative. I did enjoy the story overall, but it felt a little scattered. The pacing did not start pick up until after the halfway point. I’d get five to ten pages read and then need a rest. I found myself putting this book down a lot. Such a heavily guided hand by the author, instead of letting the story unfold organically and let the characters grow. It was set up this way for latter reveals in the plot… but, um… girl that’s not a good way to do it. It was repeated so many times it was frustrating. Plus there was this whole dynamic between Uncle Mort and Lex where the parental figure was keeping information and facts from the junior ‘for their own good,’ that whole just do as I say thing. The witty banter, Dad jokes, and sarcastic asides felt juvenile and did not pack a punch.
Though there was something about the tone and narrative style that was lacking in comparison to the first two novels. The plot for ‘ Rogue’ was a lot of fun, plenty of action and twists that I enjoyed. Expect death, Damning and running, screaming for your life. The whole Grimsphere is against Lex and the gang of Junior Grims with Uncle Mort in the lead.
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