Nightshade - Andrea Cremer
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goodreadsTitle: Nightshade
Author: Andrea Cremer
Genre: Paranormal, YA
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 363
Date read: January, 2010
While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies' throats. And she wouldn't have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she'll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves. But Calla's predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age. This human boy's secret will turn the young pack's world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches' War that surrounds them all.
Very similar to Twilight in many ways, though without feeling as copy-cat'ish as some of the other paranormal romances I've read lately.
Fascinating story, and definitely a very promising start to a new series from a new author. It's very clearly the first in a series in that it sets the stage and not much (if anything) is resolved, so my rating may end up being higher, once I know where she decides to go from here.
One thing I wasn't terribly impressed by was the dynamics between Calla and the two male main characters. Here it seemed like Andrea Cremer tried too hard to replicate the Bella-Edward-Jacob triangle... I didn't care for it in Twilight and I cared even less for it here. I hope she finds a better way of resolving this in the later books, that won't have me feeling as bad for the "Jacob" in the equation.
So 5 stars for entertainment value. -1 star for the love triangle and -0.5 star for the cliff-hanger.
Author: Andrea Cremer
Genre: Paranormal, YA
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 363
Date read: January, 2010
While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies' throats. And she wouldn't have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she'll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves. But Calla's predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age. This human boy's secret will turn the young pack's world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches' War that surrounds them all.
Very similar to Twilight in many ways, though without feeling as copy-cat'ish as some of the other paranormal romances I've read lately.
Fascinating story, and definitely a very promising start to a new series from a new author. It's very clearly the first in a series in that it sets the stage and not much (if anything) is resolved, so my rating may end up being higher, once I know where she decides to go from here.
One thing I wasn't terribly impressed by was the dynamics between Calla and the two male main characters. Here it seemed like Andrea Cremer tried too hard to replicate the Bella-Edward-Jacob triangle... I didn't care for it in Twilight and I cared even less for it here. I hope she finds a better way of resolving this in the later books, that won't have me feeling as bad for the "Jacob" in the equation.
So 5 stars for entertainment value. -1 star for the love triangle and -0.5 star for the cliff-hanger.
