I went into this series wanting to like it, the summary on goodreads and just the general premise were really cool, the execution though is pretty bad.The first book feels like its tripping over itself to tell you the plot, the story feels rushed and the characters, insubstantial. How creepy and mysterious can anyone in this series be if they tell you their life's story the first time you meet them? And whenever the story feels like there is even a little bit of vagueness to it they rush in and give you an info dump.The dialogue is absolute garbage, its almost like all of them are vomiting out their thoughts everytime they speak. I'm surprised that vampires and werewolves are even a secret with how everyone is in a huge rush to tell you everything about them. Even when the main character promises to keep their world a secret he tells special situations everything he knows at the drop of a hat.The worst thing about this story when reading through it is thinking how awesome it would be if it had a lot more polish, if the author waited a few more years and wrote a couple more drafts, this story could be truly spectacular. As it stands though, its just another bad Indy book. I tried to give this a fair shake. I actually stopped reading it and came back to it, which generally makes me much more generous to a book. I then kept going between it and another book and asking myself, "Is this really as bad as it seems?"It's pretty terrible. I've read worse, but this still falls into the "laughably bad" category. If it had been written with even the slightest hint of self-awareness, I would have given it another star or even two, but I think he was trying to be serious!The dialog is terrible. I have more realistic sounding conversations with my roommate's cat. The author is definitely a fan of "tell, don't show". And what he has to tell us is the Saturday-morning cartoon version of character development. Not even the good Saturday morning ones - the failed ones that came on before most kids were up. I was half expecting his hero to suddenly develop eye lasers, just so that I would KNOW for a fact he was screwing with readers.There's one section at the end, that develops into a totally unnecessary soft-science gloop of an explanation of several pieces of... the plot-like substance found here, given as highly detailed exposition between two characters... for one of whom it's totally out of place (except he's Ninja-Batman-Jesus). It was like reading a b-grade movie. I had to put down the book until I stopped laughing. So, points for that. I just don't think it was intentional.The amount of wish fulfillment on display in the book is... well, it goes past funny into "mildly creepy".When I make the comparison to cartoons, I do not make it idly. If you watched cartoons as a kid, you may remember one-shot abilities that never show up again. Check! Boring female protagonists that exist primarily as a walking reason to be involved in this week's adventure, maybe also to be screen candy. Check!It's just all-around... bad.
What do You think about God Touched (2000)?
Amazing- loved it. Chris can exorcise demons and stumbles into a whole new supernatural world.
—mauriciamoi
I can't get enough of this series. Thank john Conroe
—dewey
Great plot, interesting characters. One word: Fun.
—irisg
