Blood Engines
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299070110 (1299070116)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Spectra Books
Edition language: English
Series: Marla Mason (#1)
Marla Mason is the guardian of the city of Felport and is under attack from an unknown enemy and the clues are leading to dead people. She has to find out who it is before she becomes another body, and also there's a spell trying to kill her and she's not sure if both are related. Marla is a stron...
I didn't like the characters and I hated the main character. I had absolutely no interest in or empathy for her. I started to like her sidekick but then more was revealed and he was a borderline sociopath. The story was somewhat unclear and surprisingly slow moving considering the reader is thrust i...
I didn't care for this one I'm afraid. I was in the mood for some magic- I'm a big fan of the Hollows series by Kim Harrison and the blurb makes this sound similar- but I got halfway through this book and had experienced precisely no magic, and hadn't been gripped by the characters or plot, so I sto...
Good fluffy reading. I really like Marla so I will stick with reading the others. I'm sure with time they will have more substance.
While I did enjoy this story and it's characters the book seemed very slow. I know back story is needed to understand the characters and the plot but it seemed to take forever to get through that part. Now when the ball got rolling the story was pretty darn good. I love a story that makes me think "...