Elle Casey

I really liked this YA. Great snark, good writing and a decent story. And guess what? The main character was actually thinking at one point that she wasn't up to a love triangle, so I hope the author keeps to that. The 'Read-me-I'm-just-as-good-as-Twilight" teen-aged love triangle is the cheapest and most overused trope in YA today and I wish it could be banned.

I don't know about you, but when I was a teenager it was hard enough to hold onto one guy, much less two. Let me stop lest the rant take over.

The Changelings was a good book and don't let the cliffhanger fool you. Books 1 thru 4 are ready for the reading--Enjoy… (mehr)

This was a great installment. I will be looking for a bit more growth in Jayne the next few books, but hope she never loses her inner voice.

My only caveat is that if you hate cliffhangers, wait for the rest. Go try Elle's other books!

Favorite Quotes:

Run for it! ... Rat turd alert! Rat turd alert!"
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I glanced at her, praying her robes wouldn't open up to reveal anything, knowing it would scar me for life to see her two-thousand-year-old boobs hanging down to her knees.… (mehr)

While this series is complete, the story will continue in The Clash of the Overworld. Depending on how that series goes, I can see the clear demarcation between series.

I still am in love with Jayne's inner voice, the lack of overabundant teenage angst and just a damn good story. I listened to a majority of this book in my car via Kindle's text to speech and found myself (more than once) laughing like a loon in my car.

This series has caused me to put Elle Casey on my auto-buy list and I look forward to more. If I had a complaint it is the same one that I have for most UF authors - please add some ethnic diversity. I guess if you're not 'diverse' you don't notice, but as a reader of fantasy since (wait for it) Interview with a Vampire in 1981, I really miss the fact that asian, hispanic and blacks usually never appear unless the setting is in--asia, s america/spain or africa. But that's my thing.

My Kindle Highlights/Notes:

The thought of a demon wiener getting anywhere near my hoo-hah was absolutely gag-worthy
Note: Ya think?

Great. Not only was I going to be one of those ultra-fertile types I’d read about in health class but some soothsayer had also apparently been talking about my virginity. How rude. How embarrassing.
Note: Ha

To think that prom sex could have saved me from a demon rape was too ironic and awful to fully appreciate right now;

If we couldn’t kill this thing with the combined force of all four elements, I was just going to have to resign myself to losing my virginity to a blind, murdering demon and giving birth to its spawn

I was about to make a life-altering decision while standing in the bathroom, next to a toilet
Note: Dont we all?… (mehr)