Marley G. reviewed on 5/25/2010 + 40 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

OK, so you know how it goes. You see rave reviews of a fantasy series and you check your PBS credits, see if you can order all three books in the trilogy at once just so #2 and #3 will be lined up by your bedside while you're reading #1. Then, bleh! The first book stinks and you realize you're stuck with all three...

Well, I did feel obliged to push through #1 and even #2 just in case the series got better. It didn't.

The main character in the story, Miriam, is a business journalist who discovers - the hard way - that she has family ties to a feudal, otherworldly crime syndicate. Now she's dodging assasins right and left. But if she can just stay alive long enough, she'll have plenty of opportunities to apply her modern ideas to the family business.

It's a neat idea but Miriam left me totally cold. There's just nothing likeable or even believable about her. And none of the supporting characters were any better.

I know there are people who love this series but I was sorry to waste the credits.

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