A review by chelseaj91
Another Kind of Dead by Kelly Meding

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.