At first, I thought my confusion was because I had not read the first book in the series, but after reading a while and not catching on, I just realized the story itself was confusing me. The whole time, I felt in a fog, never truly understanding the characters. ( )

While I enjoyed the humor, the geekery and the actual writing, and I really do think it presents a thought provoking philosophy, I was generally disappointed in this book. The reason for this actually started in book one, with the too perfect heroine. It only gets worse here. Essentially, Lilith is indestructible and she knows it. So, there is no challenge to her from anyone, which means no challenge to the reader. This whole book is her wandering around making witty quips, teasing Jinx (who I adore), and almost lazily figuring a thing or two out. Oh sure, there are some fight scenes, but she’s faster, stronger, smarter, more invisible, more skilled, etc than any of her opponents, so the result is a foregone conclusion and comes far too quickly. It’s dull, no matter how much action is happening.

The book also falls into what I consider a tempting trap when dealing with immortality. All of a sudden, almost everyone Lilith meets is a famous historical character. All the billions of people who have lived throughout history and the immortals happen to be ones we’d have heard of?

The book is worth reading to engage the Buddhist (and such) arguments, but it doesn’t have quite the flare and appeal as the first book, in my opinion. ( )

Received this book free for an HONEST review. This is MY OPINION.



I found the book to be slow and drawn out. The dialog was obviously written with an ATTEMPT to be witty. The writing style was good and it seemed that the author did quite well with the editing or hired an editor (I didn't see any blazing mistakes). But, I wasn't drawn into the story or the characters at all and I found their discussions/conversations to be bland and "flat".

Usually when I write a short review, it means I cared so little for the book that I didn't want to spend anymore time on it. Longer reviews mean I either loved it or hated it so bad that I want to take the time to blast it...this explanation was longer than my critique of this book - enough said. ( )

I purchased the first book in the series from amazon so I would not be completely lost I was able to get through it but it took months because it was hard to keep your attention on it. I get what the author is trying to do with this series I think she just makes it to complicated you have to concentrate too hard to understand and get into the book. I found this book very hard to get into the philosophical twist and turns were hard to keep up with I couldn't even finish the book because I found it hard to keep my attention on it. ( )

I did not understand it. I have to find the other books in this series hope the first on so it will make scents to me. There is a lot of spots you will not understand in you don't read the being of the series.