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Book Review of The Unleashing (Call of Crows, Bk 1)

The Unleashing (Call of Crows, Bk 1)
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I would have to agree that this series is not like most of her other books. Those are a bit more light hearted and easy going. This book had a bit of a darker tone, or at least I though so, which balanced out the humorous and funny situations in the book. The thing that made this an awesome book for me is that the characters fell "real" to me. With a story set in a world like this it would be so easy to come up with characters that we couldn't really relate much to, There were A LOT of times in the book that I caught myself thinking "I would sooo do that", or that one of my friends or family members would react the way a character did. I have a sister that is a hypochondriac just like one of the crows and I could so see her doing some of the things that character did and said. The part of the book where Kera lectures the girls about proper dog ownership and her reactions when they bring the dog back wearing a tutu or things I could easily see myself doing if it were my dog. Those kind of things just made me appreciate this story all the much more and the slightly darker tone to this story-line really appealed to me as a change of pace. I though the author maintained a good balance between closure for this particular couple and not completely resolving the issues of the bad guys to be continued in other books. I didn't feel that the ending had any more of a cliffhanger than say one of Lora Leighs breed books or one of JR Ward's Black dagger Brotherhood books. I thoroughly enjoyed and have even re-read it once already. This is going on my keeper shelf.