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A review by victoriabooklover
The Jackal by J.R. Ward
2.0
JR Ward is about to lose me as a reader and here’s why...
I loved loved loved The Black Dagger Brother Hood series after the first six books which were so god damned redundant that I wanted to shoot myself in the face. Peak JR Ward starts around the 7th and 8th book when the plot finally heightened and reached its climax with John, Xhex, and Rehv. Following that, JR Ward created all these unnecessary spin-offs and new series that I feel like should have come AFTER she closed up some very prolonged and neglected plot points concerning Darius, John, Mary, etc etc. There are so many things have been left open for so god damned long that I feel like at this point we won’t get answers.
What pisses me off even more is that JR Ward used to have a talent for drawing you into her next book before it was even close to release date. She would give us such a good glimpse at the coming cast that I was thirsty for the next hardcover to be in my hands as fast as possible. Sadly with the her new books she doesn’t give us any kind of teaser or sample or even MENTION the characters who will be in her next book, automatically deeming them irrelevant for me. Rhage’s have brother who was NEVER mentioned? No. A spin-off in the same universe but ABOUT WOLVES? No.
I might sound like I’m just being super impatient and whiny, but listen, when you’ve been following this series for YEARS AND YEARS and you just want your god damned closure? YOU JUST WANT YOUR GODDAMNED CLOSURE.
Anyways, as you can tell I was quite biased about coming into this new installment. I didn’t give two craps about a never-mentioned half-brother named ‘nobody gives a shit’ and his love interest. Needless to say on top of them being irrelevant, they were just as plain as unsalted chicken. They were awful and recycled and I just didn’t see the point in reading this book.
The ONE redeemable thing was the treatment of the aristocrat towards the Jackal. Showing the corruption of the Glymera has always interested me and seeing more of that helped me want to read this book.
Otherwise....no. No I didn’t like this book very much at all
I loved loved loved The Black Dagger Brother Hood series after the first six books which were so god damned redundant that I wanted to shoot myself in the face. Peak JR Ward starts around the 7th and 8th book when the plot finally heightened and reached its climax with John, Xhex, and Rehv. Following that, JR Ward created all these unnecessary spin-offs and new series that I feel like should have come AFTER she closed up some very prolonged and neglected plot points concerning Darius, John, Mary, etc etc. There are so many things have been left open for so god damned long that I feel like at this point we won’t get answers.
What pisses me off even more is that JR Ward used to have a talent for drawing you into her next book before it was even close to release date. She would give us such a good glimpse at the coming cast that I was thirsty for the next hardcover to be in my hands as fast as possible. Sadly with the her new books she doesn’t give us any kind of teaser or sample or even MENTION the characters who will be in her next book, automatically deeming them irrelevant for me. Rhage’s have brother who was NEVER mentioned? No. A spin-off in the same universe but ABOUT WOLVES? No.
I might sound like I’m just being super impatient and whiny, but listen, when you’ve been following this series for YEARS AND YEARS and you just want your god damned closure? YOU JUST WANT YOUR GODDAMNED CLOSURE.
Anyways, as you can tell I was quite biased about coming into this new installment. I didn’t give two craps about a never-mentioned half-brother named ‘nobody gives a shit’ and his love interest. Needless to say on top of them being irrelevant, they were just as plain as unsalted chicken. They were awful and recycled and I just didn’t see the point in reading this book.
The ONE redeemable thing was the treatment of the aristocrat towards the Jackal. Showing the corruption of the Glymera has always interested me and seeing more of that helped me want to read this book.
Otherwise....no. No I didn’t like this book very much at all