Unshapely Things Book

***Originally reviewed 2014. Found a typo.***


I'm going to say about this book what I've said about others...I wanted to like this book. I mean I really wanted to like this book. I'm always looking for good Urban Fantasy reads and this one looked promising. There's a nice number of books in the series and people have been rating them highly.

Oh well. I almost went two stars here. In many ways the book is more mediocre than actually poor. The thing is I finally laid it aside as not worth my time to finish. When I do that I go to 1 star.

By the way, this wasn't the first time I laid the book aside. I kept laying it aside and reading other things. Then I'd go back to it hoping...really hoping I'd get interested. I just never did.

There are a few likable characters here. One is a sad young witness who's life is difficult anyway, another is a fairy who's a little edgy and dangerous, then there's our protagonist. He's okay...but he never really drew me in.

You've met this guy, or at least versions of him before. He used to be much more powerful...but "something" happened and now his power is a shadow of what it was. He's hanging on at the edges of things doing what he can.

The world "we" live in is now "this one" after the Convergence. See the world of Faerie has somehow converged with the world of humans.

They (that is the people of that world which in the book is the same as this world except...oh well, you get the idea.) still debate about which is the "real world" it sort of depends on where you come from...

Anyway the worlds have Converged so now all kinds of people, creatures and things walk, creep, run, flit, jump and crawl among "us humans". The old prejudices and bigotries are still around of course...but now we have what Huck Finn would call "a whole raft" of new ones. Fairies look down on humans and other fairies who associate with humans, humans seem to hate everybody (well the bigoted ones) and then of course there's the long simmering war between fairies and Elves...

Sounds like the proverbial page turning thrill ride doesn't it.

It's so slow that I occasionally laid it aside to actually try watching paint dry. Snail races at times have more action. This is not a thriller...sorry.

I was disappointed in it. I wanted to like it. I always like to find another good UF series.

Sadly, this ain't it. Can't recommend it, sorry.