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Chargement... TRANSITION: The Chimera Hunters Seriespar Megan S. Johnston
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The Chimera are a race so old, the humans relegated them as a myth. The Gods feared the Chimeras' powers, believing they were a deadly race with physical abilities beyond belief. So they split their race in half, condemning them to wander the earth searching for their other half to be complete. Without their sodalis, each is destined to live life without dreams, without love, without hope. The future rests on fi nding their one true mate for life. SHELBY O'NEIL has led a solitary life with her parents. So when she goes to college, she believes her life has just begun. Now in her second year, the dreams begin. She dreams with the same man, night after night for months. When her dream world becomes her reality, and her life becomes a danger zone, she quickly learns to trust the one man who has thrown her into this new and dangerous world. DEVELON COLE is Chimera and his race has been on earth as long as humans. His people are desperate to fi nd their one true mate for life, and Develon has just found his, in the small college town of Pullman, Washington. His duty is to protect her against the Chimera hunters and guide her to who she was always meant to be, his sodalis, his mate. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book blurb does a good job of explaining what this story is about so I won’t go into any detail about it.
I really wanted to like this book because I love shape-shifters and the idea of them finding their mates. But I could only get through half of the book because of the many discrepancies, amongst other things. I’m not sure how to list all the things that didn’t work for me in the story. Here are the things I found:
There is hardly any action, but lots of internal thoughts and feelings talked about. All of this kept me removed from the story and the characters.
I never felt much personality from the female lead, Shelby. The most I got was that she was confused or wanted Develon. The only time we knew she had a spunky personality was a few lines when the secondary characters told us she was spunky. As to Develon, this guy is supposed to be the leader of his people and he seemed pretty weak to me. I expect an ‘alpha’ leader to have a presence and what I got from the author’s writing was that Develon couldn’t stop mooning and waxing poetic over Shelby. It was just too much. Stephen and Jen were more interesting characters and came across as having personalities.
There were odd scenes that didn’t make sense. One is after Shelby and Jen make it to Develon’s and Stephen’s cabin after theirs is crushed by ice and snow. The comment is made to help Shelby with her injured hand, but instead of taking care of it immediately (remember it’s over an inch long gash with glass still stuck in it and Shelby is in pretty bad pain), Develon and Shelby sit down to talk instead for ‘an hour’ and then she and Jen are going to go to bed. Does Shelby even think about removing the glass or asking for help before she goes to bed? No one does? Instead she heads up to bed, then comes back down and goes into Develon’s room looking for him and then and only then does he remember she has glass in her hand. But he doesn’t even use a butterfly clip to hold the edges of her 1 ½ inch gash together or put a bandage on it! This scene is so poorly planned out; I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the length of time I was reading the book.
Odd thing number two was that Shelby notices that Stephen and Develon often communicate mentally to each other. But one time she is out of the room and hears whispers in the other room and Stephen and Develon or talking to each other. Why on earth are they talking out loud if they can use telepathy especially when it’s only the two of them? This doesn’t make sense again.
Another thing that bugged me was that Develon could read Shelby’s thoughts but would act like he couldn’t. Since he could read her thoughts he could get the answers he sought as soon as she thought about them, but he always acted like he couldn’t.
Now I get to the repetitive scenes and dialogue. There was so much in this book I don’t know where to start. Let’s just say that the author would write the same scene over and over again only phrased a different way. Most of these scenes circled around Develon proclaiming Shelby as his ‘sodalis,’ and Shelby proclaiming how attracted she was to him, but she couldn’t be. Also that she didn’t remember him from her dreams, but then at other times saying that she knew it was him. She repeatedly asked what ‘slumbering’ was as if she never heard it before, although Develon repeatedly explained it to her. It’s like the author wrote many different versions of the same scene but forgot to take out all the extra ones. Develon’s favorite words were ‘you’re my sodalis,’ or some variant of this, said in a dreamy and repeated fashion.
I will say the one time there was a bit of excitement was when Shelby took Develon to meet her parents. I couldn’t read much beyond that because all the dreamy, lovey-dovey stuff was getting on my nerves. Most of the first half is pretty much all that without lots of action or dialogue.
There were multiple points of view, and it was confusing. The POV’s would switch back and forth between paragraphs without warning and the only way to find out who was speaking was if I read ‘she’ or ‘he.’
I received a pdf format for my NOOK and the formatting was not good. Often a sentence would stop midway, followed by a blank page, then resume on the second page. Also dialogue between two characters would run together in one paragraph.
So in the end I could only get half way through this book. It’s slow with too much internal dialogue, too much moony eyes and swooning between Develon and Shelby and aggravating POV changes. The MC’s are weak characters with hardly any personality, while the secondary characters have more personality. I think the idea for the story was a good idea, but it’s poorly executed. I can only give this book two stars.
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