Revelations by Melissa de la Cruz
Sep. 30th, 2009 05:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreOh, curse you, Melissa De La Cruz, this really is a series of trilogies! On the other hand, the writing and plot are starting to live up to the mythology and potential? Sadly, Schuyler remains uninteresting, and Jack phenomenally boring.
See, I don’t mind reading about Schuyler, but would rather read about the supporting cast, whereas I get fidgety and have to stop myself from skimming when Jack is around. There’s nothing wrong with him, mind you, he’s just a typical angsty rich boy who’s oh-so-sexy-and-appealing because…err…he’s an angsty rich boy? And Schuyler is largely a Special heroine. And, for all that de la Cruz has her teen main cast in all sorts of romantic complications, the only romantic complication I’m interested in involves parents, one of whom has been in a coma the entire series!
For spoilers: First of all, I am amazed that de la Cruz actually went to canonical incest. I mean, they’re reincarnated angels who’ve been married every lifetime for a couple million years, so it doesn’t quite count.Reincarnation mythology makes everything ok. I’m disappointed, though, that it involved Mimi manipulating Jack’s mind. As a followup, I’m very disappointed with Schuyler and Jack’s affair. Not only because I prefer Mimi and Oliver as characters, and so automatically root for the opposite, as no potential pairing really has anything to make me invested, but mostly because Jack’s obsession with Schuyler icks me out. Something about his putting Gabriel on a shining pedestal of purity and virtue and light and then just shifting that obsession to her daughter doesn’t appeal to me. Also, if my choices for a girl’s love interest are the childhood best friend who’s always supported her and stood beside her and the forbidden angsty rich boy, I’ll almost always side with the best friend.
And Bliss is the daughter of Lucifer! And Gabriel! (And so the ultimate Silver Blood?) And so she and Schuyler will be best friends who are secretly sisters who must be enemies! Oh, de la Cruz, must you service my fictional kinks so well? Or can’t you at least do it in better books? Actually, I was rather pleased with how this initial arc ended. More death and war and dying of the old guard, please, and less name brand dropping and bland angsty rich boys.
See, I don’t mind reading about Schuyler, but would rather read about the supporting cast, whereas I get fidgety and have to stop myself from skimming when Jack is around. There’s nothing wrong with him, mind you, he’s just a typical angsty rich boy who’s oh-so-sexy-and-appealing because…err…he’s an angsty rich boy? And Schuyler is largely a Special heroine. And, for all that de la Cruz has her teen main cast in all sorts of romantic complications, the only romantic complication I’m interested in involves parents, one of whom has been in a coma the entire series!
For spoilers: First of all, I am amazed that de la Cruz actually went to canonical incest. I mean, they’re reincarnated angels who’ve been married every lifetime for a couple million years, so it doesn’t quite count.
And Bliss is the daughter of Lucifer! And Gabriel! (And so the ultimate Silver Blood?) And so she and Schuyler will be best friends who are secretly sisters who must be enemies! Oh, de la Cruz, must you service my fictional kinks so well? Or can’t you at least do it in better books? Actually, I was rather pleased with how this initial arc ended. More death and war and dying of the old guard, please, and less name brand dropping and bland angsty rich boys.