Omens
k8rin says:
A young woman from a privileged background finds out she is adopted and that her birth parents are imprisoned as serial killers. Her adoptive mother and fiance are not as supportive as she wants, so she goes off alone and ends up in a strange town.I liked the strangeness and the half-remembered portents and superstitions. I liked Cainsville. I did not like the parts of the story which were supposed to be real. Why would a blackmailer create a media storm and destroy his source of inco...me? (A paper might pay for an exclusive but only once and only one paper, blackmail victims might keep paying for years.) Money and access to lawyers can be an advantage to someone trying to solve a twenty-year-old crime, so it seems whimsical and out of character to dispense with them and make things more difficult. The solution smacks too much of a bad movie plot.
Daraahx says:
Absolutely Wonderful! Unlike Kelly Armstrong's Otherworld Universe, this series more hints at the supernatural than comes right out and says "the weird and wonderful exist." The supernatural elements are fun and add an extra layer to the story that I really enjoyed, but what I think made the story was Olivia's personality and her relationship with Gabriel Walsh (her lawyer). I tore through both Omens and Visions in two days, couldn't put them down and my only complaint is that I now have to wait until August to get the next one!MoreLess
A young woman from a privileged background finds out she is adopted and that her birth parents are imprisoned as serial killers. Her adoptive mother and fiance are not as supportive as she wants, so she goes off alone and ends up in a strange town.I liked the strangeness and the half-remembered portents and superstitions. I liked Cainsville. I did not like the parts of the story which were supposed to be real. Why would a blackmailer create a media storm and destroy his source of inco...me? (A paper might pay for an exclusive but only once and only one paper, blackmail victims might keep paying for years.) Money and access to lawyers can be an advantage to someone trying to solve a twenty-year-old crime, so it seems whimsical and out of character to dispense with them and make things more difficult. The solution smacks too much of a bad movie plot.
Daraahx says:
Absolutely Wonderful! Unlike Kelly Armstrong's Otherworld Universe, this series more hints at the supernatural than comes right out and says "the weird and wonderful exist." The supernatural elements are fun and add an extra layer to the story that I really enjoyed, but what I think made the story was Olivia's personality and her relationship with Gabriel Walsh (her lawyer). I tore through both Omens and Visions in two days, couldn't put them down and my only complaint is that I now have to wait until August to get the next one!MoreLess
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