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Autumn Bones (Jacqueline Carey)

Autumn Bones  - Jacqueline Carey

Okay, let me start with the good thing first ... I LOVED the female relationship / friendship in this book. Daisy and her mother (they watched Gilmore Girls together!). Daisy and Lurine. Daisy and Jen. I loved them all. There weren't many of female friendship in urban fantasy / paranormal books. Usually the female has a lot of male friends (or male suitors) but the female friends -- when they are doing what girls do best, like sharing stories and crush over boys -- are very rare. I appreciated that so much in here.

HOWEVER, the rest, story wise, was not as good.

See, the beginning of this book was actually, kinda fun. I mean, a satyr in a rut! Who-eww it brought a whole new level of orgy that I never read in a story before. However, after that, I thought the book was just going all over the place... I gave the first book 4* because I thought it was solid start to a series and I enjoyed it for being the lighter kind of urban fantasy. Also there was murder of a human, so the end-point was to find out which of the eldritch community was responsible.

But this one?

This one just big fat MEH for me. There were so many small things happening and even until 3/4th of the book, I still didn't know which direction that the book was going. We had satyr in a rut, Sinclair's sister coming bringing threat of obeah, we had Daisy wanting to make a database of eldritch community, we also had a 'suspicious' hell-spawn lawyer (who never appeared again, probably being a set-up for book 3) and Jen's sister finally is being turned. In fact, not until about the last 1/4th part that the story picked up with action over Halloween.

So, what was the main plot? What did it want to tell me as a reader?

Not to mention the supposedly romantic relationship was oh, so uninspiring. Again, I loved the first book because it gave a glimpse about Daisy's potential suitors. But in this book, it still didn't move forward, and I felt like I knew nothing about these guys. The constant thinking of Daisy from one guy to another (Cody and Stefan mostly, because Daisy decided to just 'stay friend' with Sinclair) was tiresome. We had Daisy doing the horizontal tango with Cody (there was a MISSING corpse, an unknown threat, but they just had to do the sex) and later on her sharing a great kiss with Stefan. I was NOT impressed and I worried it would still like so in the next book.

On top of that, truth be told, I could forgive Daisy in the first book for being a little naive. I mean, I felt that she never experienced something quite big on her role as Hel's agent. But here, I wish she didn't feel clueless. It just didn't win points for me.

I'm stretching this to 3 stars because I truly, really loved the female friendship and it felt different. But I hope that the story is going to be better in book #3. Maybe just lose the romance aspect altogether. Probably it will do better...