Death Becomes Her The Kurtherian Gambit Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Anderle Emily Beresford LMBPN Publishing Books
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What you thought you knew about vampires and werewolves is wrong...so very, very, wrong.
A thousand years of effort to keep the Unknown World hidden is unraveling and the Patriarch is tired. He needs to find someone to take over.
He finds Bethany Anne.
Unknown, untested and untried, she sets out to accomplish the impossible while forging a new future. One that no one knew was in danger.
And she does it with an attitude that will make you stand up and cheer!
They say a dress can make a women, but in this case, the dress is Death, and Death Becomes Her very well indeed.
Please note, there is flagrantly foul language in these novels. The main character does not have a problem with cussing, just uninspired cussing.
Death Becomes Her The Kurtherian Gambit Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Anderle Emily Beresford LMBPN Publishing Books
I probably would have given this a 2 star rating if not for the fresh take on the supernatural. Being a first book in the series I'm cutting a little slack for the stilted over-explaining done because the author is setting up the characters' personality as they're introduced rather than fleshing them out through the storytelling over the course of a few books. Hopefully book two will have less of that now that we already know all about them.The biggest issue as noted by several other reviewers is the proofreading (or lack thereof). You can see where the author intended to change a word but instead of removing one they both were left. There are also switches of POV that aren't needed and don't make sense (main character is giving and internal monologue and suddenly there's a sentence or two that doesn't make sense until you realize it much be another characters thoughts on the topic before it switches back to the original person).
Much of the issues are typical of a new writer and poor editing. I'm willing to overlook the issues and read the next couple books in the series. With as many books as are in this series I would hope eventually the author goes back and re-writes this first one at some point and uses a professional editor.
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Death Becomes Her The Kurtherian Gambit Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) Michael Anderle Emily Beresford LMBPN Publishing Books Reviews
I've now completed the first three books of the Kurtherian Gambit Book series by Michael Anderle, and I'm happy to see a general improvement on writing technique and style from the first book. The characters are entertaining and the prose has a good rhythm that keeps you along for the ride. The main character, BA, reminds me a bit of Faith from the Buffy Series, but perhaps a little more bad***.
I have a couple of complaints that make me pause before rapidly consuming the rest of the series. The characters haven't changed at all since they were first introduced. There doesn't seem to be any character development, except for maybe BA (but only physically, mentally she is the same). There doesn't ever seem to be much of a conflict in the books. There is no challenge that BA or her henchmen (and I should say MANY henchmen) can't easily overcome. There also doesn't seem to be any gray area in terms of good vs bad. People are either good and immediately help the main character. Or they are bad and are immediately taken care of in one way or another. The books are relatively short, with very simple conflict/resolution plots. I feel that you could easily combine the first three books into one complete story, and perhaps that is the case for why there are so many in the series. But they are relatively cheap and short. So I don't mind this as much. I also feel that it is strange that the vast majority of the characters are extremely accepting human beings that don't even pause after finding out that there is a supernatural world or experience gore filled situations.
If you don't mind missing that little bit of realism, in depth and thought-provoking situations, then you'll love this series just fine. I prefer that fuzzy gray of a character's alignment, characters that overcome challenges and hardships that cause them to grow and develop. Unfortunately, it just wasn't enough to keep me hooked to the end.
Wow! I read the other reviews and figured I would give this book a try. I think I'm hooked.
First, this is the first book I've read in a long time since switching to eBooks and self published books that started out by creating a believable world.
Second, the main character as a woman WASN'T dreamy eyed, hopelessly enamored, or suffering from hormone soaked emotions.
Third, the vamps and other where's didn't follow the standard roles as driven by movie portraits. The human side was clearly shown as well as how that drives their personalities.
Then the plot reached and grabbed my attention and made me want to find out what happened next. The alien influence was a pleasant twist and obviously will play in the the rest of the series.
Yes, I will be continuing to read in the series but everything isn't all peaches and cream. Many times there were sentence fragments that caused me to stop and re-read the paragraph to make sense of the action. Sometimes there were words in the sentence that weren't meant to be, as if the grammar checker just through it in in case that was what was to be. I'm not an English language nazi but these detractors did slow my reading.
Overall though I will do, what is rare for me ( besides actually doing a review) and recommend that you give this book a try. It just might cause you to continue to get and read more of the story. I might just have to join Unlimited to save some coin on this series.
I was looking for a new series of books to read as I tend to go through books pretty quickly. I will say I am glad I found Michael's books. I have just finished book 4 and decided I should really go back and review what I had already read.
This book is a wonderful introduction to a series I can see carrying on for many more books (the author says 13 but in my mind I can see spin-offs, books written from another of the main characters perspective, potential children carry on's once we reach the end etc.).
I loved the book - I was fortunate enough to get the post edited version so didn't have to face the issues earlier readers had. The book is a wonderful mixture of action, darkness, fun, intrigue, violence and very original cursing (did I mention that this is not a book for the young !!!). It engaged right from the start and has duly sucked me in - I have read the first 4 books in 3 days - each time reaching the end wondering what was going to happen next - please Mr. Anderle get some extended volumes together for the new readers - maybe a 1-3, 4-6 type grouping if you get the chance.
Thanks for letting us share your world - cannot wait to get to the next books - so good
PS And one of my best friends is actually from Brasov and I shared this books with her - she loved it too !
I probably would have given this a 2 star rating if not for the fresh take on the supernatural. Being a first book in the series I'm cutting a little slack for the stilted over-explaining done because the author is setting up the characters' personality as they're introduced rather than fleshing them out through the storytelling over the course of a few books. Hopefully book two will have less of that now that we already know all about them.
The biggest issue as noted by several other reviewers is the proofreading (or lack thereof). You can see where the author intended to change a word but instead of removing one they both were left. There are also switches of POV that aren't needed and don't make sense (main character is giving and internal monologue and suddenly there's a sentence or two that doesn't make sense until you realize it much be another characters thoughts on the topic before it switches back to the original person).
Much of the issues are typical of a new writer and poor editing. I'm willing to overlook the issues and read the next couple books in the series. With as many books as are in this series I would hope eventually the author goes back and re-writes this first one at some point and uses a professional editor.
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