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slc333's review against another edition
4.0
Loved it but I am not sure how much more I can stand of Evy being put through the ringer.
suzrae73's review against another edition
4.0
I can't say enough good things about this series! I absolutely love this series, Kelly Meding always has me on the edge of my seat and it just amazes me all the things Evy has to go thru and yet she manages to make it out the other side with a positive attitude! Can't wait to see what's in store in the next installment for Evy and Wyatt, I have a feeling some interesting things will be happening!
chelseaj91's review against another edition
3.0
She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.Been there. Done that.
Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good—immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her.
Evy and Wyatt, her partner/lover/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads—the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures—they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all—Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.
Ok, don't get me wrong, this series is really interesting. I mean, sassy heroine, sassy book boyfriend, vampires, fighting, general mayhem? Sign me up! BUT there's a limit. I mean, the first 2 books and a good part of this one all happen over the course of like 2 and a half weeks. Then things happen which push it to like over the course of a couple months, but even within that time, Evy does not get a break. This is my second time reading this and I honestly don't remember being this annoyed...
Again, mayhem, fighting, all the things, I'm interested. But I also want the characters to get the slightest bit of downtime. To do things like decompress and heal. And come terms with a new lease on life, a new love. Just you know, life in general. And there's also a limit to how many times a character can go through the torture/kidnap/death routine. I get it, Evy's special since she came back and has all these new powers. But will bad guys just stop for like ten seconds?
I did like the minuscule moments that Wyatt and Evy got. I love Wyatt in general and I'm really glad that he's acknowledged his feelings for Evy, they're out there in the open, but he's allowing her to figure this out on her own. Of course the fact that he ran off to do some super secret something after he thought she was gone is a little worrisome, especially considering that the last time he did that, he nearly became the host for a demon, but hopefully whatever he did isn't going to be that bad.
I did have a small issue with the fact that Evy still seems to have a little trouble distinguishing between her thoughts and feelings and Chalice's. Especially since I thought she'd basically felt that Chalice had, for all intents and purposes, moved on. Honestly, I don't think there ever was anything (or maybe not as much) about Chalice's feelings/attractions to Wyatt. I think those were feelings that Evy'd had the whole time but because she'd never actually acknowledged feeling them, she didn't realize they were hers.
Anyway, enjoyable enough series that I want to pick up the rest of the books. But I need a break from the rushing and death/torture/kidnapping that is making up Evy's life and probably won't be in a rush to pick up the next one.
delz's review against another edition
3.0
I can say one thing for sure about this book it was certainly violent. No Surprise, Evy dies again, but of course she comes back . This is all due to a gnome magic spell that was cast on her a couple of stories ago. This story is centered around a “mad scientist” Walter Thackery that wants Evy’s blood to find a cure for the vampirism infection. He really doesn’t care by what means he gets the blood, as a matter of fact the more pain and suffering he can cause the better. It also turns out that Thackery had something to do with the cross hybrid monsters that were in the last book and once again they show up to reek havoc. It seems the Fey have gone missing as well. I felt this book was overly violent and I was almost ready to set it aside and give up on the series, but I did finish and will probably continue to the next if only to see the changes the author has made to the story.
mcummings's review
4.0
This is really dark urban fantasy, and some parts are particularly grim, but I really enjoyed the ride.
vegancleopatra's review
4.0
This was another solid installment to the Dreg City series. It helps that the main character of Evy is likeable, tough and is intelligent enough to view the world around her logically, even if emotions try to get in the way. That is not to say she is not emotional, Evy shows her soft side multiple times during the drama in Another Kind of Dead, but it doesn't diminish her toughness. It is difficult to summarize this installment, but it is most definitely filled with action, a bit of romance and a lot of gore. I do not remember the other two books being this gore-filled. It was well done but at times I wanted a break from all the chaos and gore and to relax in a nice comfy spot in story. But I think that was the point: Evy wanted to do the same damn thing! The story is becoming more twisted with no one knowing who to truly trust, there are clear bad guys but the good guys? Not so easy to spot. I was a bit nervous that this one would end in a cliffhanger but the author chose against it, especially in the romantic department. It could have easily been a plot device and I appreciate the author not torturing her fans! I look forward to unraveling the mysteries of the series in further installments.
greymalkin's review
3.0
Liked this one, there was some good character development and the plot hung together pretty well. But I'm starting to get a little tired of the torture porn. She has put her heroine and many other characters through so much and the constant pain and death is starting to get a little numbing. It's hard to really have any impact when it just keeps. on. going. Still will read the next but it's getting hard to get in the right mindframe to read them.