Dark Light Series
I couldn't get through the book even hoping to see the Gabriella I'd met in the other book which is unlike me. I generally finish books I don't like out of sheer stubbornness, the fact I couldn't get through more than one book by this author might be telling. Like they didn't move the story forward, or shape the characters or their actions in anyway, just detracted from my enjoyment. I noticed that in Sev7en too. Maybe the author is trying to create angst or something. Whatever the case I wont be reading anything from her again. I only started this series because I read Born Sinners and that book was amazing!
Now I know there is a lot of mixed reviews and I can agree with it not being the best. It was pretty steamy, but I like books to have more story then just sex. Now the main character does start off strong and then ends up being ridiculously stupid that you feel yourself saying is she seriously that naive! Although you might not want to continue the series I say don't give up it gets better and explains Gaberiella behavior in the next book. I read the whole series and I absolutely loved it.
This book was not the best but believe me when I say this series is really good. But there where some things that I didn't I actually stumbled along this book in my neverending kindle tbr list. I have so many books that I buy when they are on sale or free but don't actually read them unless I can't find anything else that I just have to read. I was scanning through my list when I happen upon this cover, the cover alone caught my attention, so I read the blurb and thought, why not.
I'm a huge fan of paranormal, sex and darkness. This book promised them all and didn't disappoint. But there where some things that I didn't like either Gabrielle, who is our female lead, has just turned twenty when her adopted parents drop a bomb on her that she's not exactly human and that comes with some magical perks, although she won't get the full effect until her twenty-first birthday when she ascends. And then Dorian walks into her life and it seems like he almost put a spell on her because, well, she changes and all of the clues to the answers she wants is slapping her in the face, yet she can't see them?
They are like the brightest neon sign, lit up flashing the answers and she chooses to ignore them purposely! Even when he's pretty much giving her huge hints that he knows about her! He's dark, definitely dark and even before it tells you at the ending of the book I had guessed who he was. I also didn't like the abrupt ending and am so glad the next book is already out so I don't have to wait. I gave the book four stars because it was written well, I really liked the premises of the book and I want to see where the next book leads. And the sex, Ha! So despite the issues I had with it and that freaking ending Gabs has no idea what she really is until her 20th birthday when all is revealed.
She has been blissfully ignorant of all things paranormal. Finding out she is half dark and half light, well she really doesn't know what to do with that information. Just going by his description I had this panty melting visual in my head. I didn't really like the way he talked in the beginning. It seemed a little weird but got better as the book progressed. There were so many things that should have put me off about this book.
It is very repetitive with words I know some readers absolutely can't stand.
There is endless "smirking". Apparently you are able to smirk when turned on, sad, happy, mad, and everything in between. Also people, gasp, breath instead of saying , praise sexually over and over and over. Why am I giving it 4 stars? Well even though there was some extremely annoying verbiage, I read this in one sitting and when I finished I immediately bought the next one. I was that sucked into the story. What I didn't like at all was that even though Dorian "owns" her, she is like sexually attracted to every man in the book.
She goes back and forth on how she feels and some of the time it makes no sense to the point I question what I had read in the previous chapter. As i write this I have already read book 2 and can tell you she continues with this behavior through it as well. I will be reviewing that book as well on its own page.
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Just a warning though, as much as i loved book one and book 2, until the end, I will not be buying book 3. Dorian lost every bit of that sexy book boyfriendness right at the end where he basically becomes the girl in the story. I read some of the reviews and it sounds like it would ruin the trilogy.
So I would suggest you read those reviews before buying. All said, the author has talent! I wish she had chosen to mix up her words a little more. See all reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. Set up a giveaway. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? Playing with Monsters Kindle Edition. The Dark Light Series: Customers who viewed this item also viewed. The Complete Box Set. There's a problem loading this menu right now.
Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. Again, this occurs most notably in the Amber novels: This somewhat Freudian theme runs through almost every Zelazny novel to a smaller or larger degree. Zelazny's father, Joseph, died unexpectedly in and never knew his son's successes as a writer; this event may have triggered Zelazny's unconscious and frequent use of the absent father motif.
Two other personal characteristics that influenced his fiction were his expertise in martial arts and his addiction to tobacco. In turn, many of his characters ably and knowledgeably use similar skills whilst dispatching their opponents.
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Zelazny was also a passionate cigarette and pipe smoker until he quit in the early '80s , so much so, that he made many of his protagonists heavy smokers as well. However, he quit in order to improve his cardiovascular fitness for the martial arts; once he had quit, characters in his later novels and short stories stopped smoking too.
Another characteristic of Zelazny's writing is that many of his protagonists had sufficient familiarity with other languages to be able to quote French, German, Italian or Latin aphorisms when the occasion seemed appropriate or even inappropriate , although Zelazny himself did not speak any of those languages. He also often experimented with form in his stories. The novel Doorways in the Sand practices a flashback technique in which most chapters open with a scene, typically involving peril, not implied by the end of the previous chapter.
Once the scene is established, the narrator backtracks to the events leading up to it, then follows through to the end of the chapter, whereupon the next chapter jumps ahead to another dramatic non-sequitur. In Roadmarks , a novel about a road system that links all possible times, places and histories, the chapters that feature the protagonist are all titled "One".
Other chapters, titled "Two", feature secondary characters, including original characters, pulp heroes , and real historical characters.
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The "One" storyline is fairly linear, whereas the "Two" storyline jumps around in time and sequence. After finishing the manuscript, Zelazny shuffled the "Two" chapters randomly among the "One" chapters in order to emphasize their non-linear nature relative to the storyline. Creatures of Light and Darkness , featuring characters in the personae of Egyptian gods, uses a narrative voice entirely in the present tense ; the final chapter is structured as a play , and several chapters take the form of long poems.
Zelazny also tended to write a short fragment, not intended for publication, as a kind of backstory for a major character, as a way of giving that character a life independent of the particular novel being worked on. At least one "fragment" was published, the short story Dismal Light , originally a backstory for Isle of the Dead ' s Francis Sandow.
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Sandow himself figures little in Dismal Light , the main character being his son, who is delaying his escape from an unstable star system in order to force his distant father to come in and ask him personally. While Isle of the Dead has Sandow living a life of irresponsible luxury as an escape from his personal demons, "Dismal Light" anchors his character as one who will face up to his responsibilities, however reluctantly.
Another common stylistic approach in his novels is the use of mixed genres , whereby elements of each are combined freely and interchangeably. Jack of Shadows and Changeling , for example, revolve around the tensions between the two worlds of magic and technology. Lord of Light , perhaps one of his most famous works, is written in the classic style of a mythic fantasy, while it is established early in the book that the story itself takes place on a colonized planet.
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Many of Zelazny's works explore variations upon the idea that if there exists an infinite number of worlds, then every world that can be imagined must exist, somewhere. Powerful beings in many of his stories have the ability to travel to worlds that possess precisely the characteristics which that being wishes to experience. Zelazny characters with this ability include Thoth in Creatures of Light and Darkness , who teleports to these worlds; those with the royal blood of either Amber or Chaos in The Chronicles of Amber , who "move through shadows" to reach these worlds; the guardian families of A Dark Traveling , who move between realities using high-tech devices; and Red Dorakeen in Roadmarks , who reaches these worlds by driving along a magical highway.
Many of these same characters wonder whether they are creating these special places anew, or are merely finding places which already exist very much like " the problem of universals " in classical metaphysics. Usually each character who ponders this ultimately decides that the question is purely academic and therefore unanswerable. Zelazny's stories inspired other authors in his generation including Samuel R.
Ballard , and Brian W. Aldiss as "an earthshaking new kind of" writers, and leaders of the New Wave. The anthology Lord of the Fantastic: Zelazny won at least 16 awards for particular works of fiction: The ostracod Sclerocypris zelaznyi was named after him. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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