Vigil

At first I felt this was brilliant, but things only went downhill from there. So here is my verdict. In Brisbane the supernatural underground is as crazy as everywhere else. Which, of course means there is need for someone to untangle all of it, to make things work out a bit better and to solve the crime the normal police is not going to be able to touch. Verity, half Normal and half Weyrd is the perfect candidate. This time things so particularly crazy; someone is making wine from the tears of children while sirens are getting murdered. It all needs to be solved and fast. Verity is having a shit time. While this is actually not as ridiculously verbose as [b:A Madness of Angels 6186355 A Madness of Angels (Matthew Swift, #1) Kate Griffin https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1305861910s/6186355.jpg 6366640], which was a mess of endlessly ridiculous sentences about the subtle condensation shining in the twilight on a piece of city garbage, but.... still. Sometimes the unnecessary adjectives made me wonder if there is some algorithm that throws one at your face that you have to incorporate. Here phones buzz like vaguely annoyed bees. Not properly annoyed, just meh annoyed. Because of reasons. The book being Australian didn't help with it, as I'm an English-as-a-foreign-language pleb, who knows nothing at all about Australia, except for drop bears, Crocodile Dundee and the Australian Masterchef show being awesome. Some of the references and slang words were totally above my knowledge. My other big issue was how everyone was a shit and constantly judged by Verity. Seriously, not perfect characters are fine, but the heroine constantly sneering at everyone being a jerk is just something that gets old really fast. But then she goes home and has this ridiculous, super fast insta love, where she meets a dude, then three days later he is in all of the supernatural, knows everything and isn't phased the slightest bit. RIGHT. Now I have to say, it was easy to read, it flows well, action happens constantly. But I am just not particularly in love with the whole thing. So many things that could have been done better. I love detective urban fantasy, though. I love both, it's just exciting. I think I'm going to read the next, because it could be a lot better if we get attached. That was another thing. They mentioned old events, previous cases and such, but you couldn't really care, as you were not invested. At one point a character's old friend dies, which upsets him, but I couldn't feel all that sorry for him, as I have no emotional connection. All I know is what the protagonist said about him and that is not much. The book ended with one little element that made me roll my eyes, though. Lalala, Verity is pregnant and her BF is moving in. I absolutely HATE investigation TV shows turning into baby and family stuff. Bones fucked this up big time, it just changed the tone of the show completely to have everyone get pregnant and have babies. HATE IT SO MUUUUUCH. Especially because again, I don't really care about the characters yet. It was cheap. All in all, not exactly convincing. I was kind of undecided about this series. Good night and stay vigil-ant! (see what I did there, kill me now)