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The Last Sun (The Tarot Sequence, #1)
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Nov 09, 2018
bookshelves: crime-mystery-thriller, ebook, fiction, sff, tarot, lgbtqi, m-m, read-in-2018, series, reviewed, favorite-characters
I wanted to love this. I should have loved this. Why didn't I love this?
Somehow it just didn't come together smoothly -- the story felt chunky, like transitions weren't well-integrated, maybe? I don't know how to explain it -- obviously. I wasn't happy with how the tarot angle was managed. I didn't fully buy into the worldbuilding. And it didn't help that at the time I'd just read a truly awesome urban fantasy, Saint of Dead Gods, which made this suffer by comparison.
I had no intention of continuing with the series, but recently I changed my mind, because a) a couple of my friends love it, and b) the author seems like a really nice guy who's attracted a group of enthusiastic fans... so why not give it another chance? I decided I'll borrow book 2 if/when it shows up at my library, and hope it hooks me the way this one failed to do. And since this review has ended up being 99.9% content-free, let me direct you to Linda's review instead.
Somehow it just didn't come together smoothly -- the story felt chunky, like transitions weren't well-integrated, maybe? I don't know how to explain it -- obviously. I wasn't happy with how the tarot angle was managed. I didn't fully buy into the worldbuilding. And it didn't help that at the time I'd just read a truly awesome urban fantasy, Saint of Dead Gods, which made this suffer by comparison.
I had no intention of continuing with the series, but recently I changed my mind, because a) a couple of my friends love it, and b) the author seems like a really nice guy who's attracted a group of enthusiastic fans... so why not give it another chance? I decided I'll borrow book 2 if/when it shows up at my library, and hope it hooks me the way this one failed to do. And since this review has ended up being 99.9% content-free, let me direct you to Linda's review instead.
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Reading Progress
May 6, 2018
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May 6, 2018
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to-sample
May 6, 2018
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crime-mystery-thriller
May 6, 2018
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ebook
May 6, 2018
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fiction
May 6, 2018
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sff
May 6, 2018
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tarot
May 6, 2018
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lgbtqi
May 6, 2018
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m-m
October 29, 2018
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Started Reading
October 29, 2018
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0.0%
"My library -- my teeny tiny little volunteer-staffed local library -- bought this LGBT fantasy novel because I recommended it. I'm so proud of them!"
October 30, 2018
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2.0%
""We're a society, after all, that embraces the idea of group marriage, that finds pure heterosexuality as abnormal as pure homosexuality."
That's... not what I was expecting."
That's... not what I was expecting."
November 2, 2018
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22.0%
November 6, 2018
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50.0%
""Riverside had been the home of Mary Mallon, an immigrant cook and asymptomatic carrier of the typhus virus."
Sorry, book, but typhus and typhoid are NOT the same. She was Typhoid Mary, not Typhus Mary. 🙄 And regardless, neither disease is viral. They're both bacterial. Someone -- a bunch of someones -- were asleep during the editing process at Pyr. It's not like this is obscure knowledge, after all."
Sorry, book, but typhus and typhoid are NOT the same. She was Typhoid Mary, not Typhus Mary. 🙄 And regardless, neither disease is viral. They're both bacterial. Someone -- a bunch of someones -- were asleep during the editing process at Pyr. It's not like this is obscure knowledge, after all."
November 6, 2018
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read-in-2018
November 9, 2018
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88.0%
""I let out a breath I hadn’t even realized I was holding."
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
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November 9, 2018
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Finished Reading
December 16, 2019
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series
March 13, 2020
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reviewed
August 25, 2021
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favorite-characters
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rated it 4 stars
24 déc. 2018 05:40
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That's not much, is it. Somewhere there's a mystery series that's at least titled as if it relies on tarot, but it didn't convince me to give it a try.
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Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~
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rated it 5 stars
I hope you like the second one better. It's a great series.
Hope your next book is fabulous.
Hope you will like the second one better.
It did! 😂
And "I know I should really like this but..." sums it up perfectly!
I suppose it could be chalked up to First Book Syndrome. Hope it turns out to be worthwhile for you, Janine. I did go on to read books 2 and 3 (and all the many, many free shorts the author makes available on his website).
Thanks. I finished today. I liked the second half better--the action slowed down enough that we got some character moments. Don't tell me what happens with Addam, but I was kind of sorry that a romance between him and Rune seems to be where the series is heading. Brand is a lot more magnetic and interesting to me as a potential partner in the romantic sense too, for Rune.
The end of this first book? Or a later one?
Thank you, I appreciate that. I probably will. And I was disappointed too.