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A review by kittyg
Hound and Key by Rhiannon Held
3.0
* This is one of my #SPFBO reads for 2018 *
I wasn't too sure what this story would be like from the cover, it seemed a little bit stylised, sexy, urban, and witch-crafty all at once...and to some extent this story does have all of those elements. This is a book which is very magical right from the start. We are following a character who is called Eric and he works for a lady called Ariadne. She used to be a lover of his, and they have a fairly good relationship still, until he realises that some of the jobs he's been doing for her aren't overly legal and certainly have horrible repercussions. He's even noticed that some of the people he's had to track are now dead!
Eric as a character isn't really someone I connected to at first, he's not a bad guy, but he's mixed up in a bit of trouble and I don't think I would be the sort of person to get on with him too well in reality. However, his story was interesting enough to me and I quickly got hooked when he started to meet the Powers.
In this book we have 5 characters who are known as Powers. They are: Breath, Map, Lantern, Hound and Key. They are all basically immortals and they keep being reborn into new bodies each time they die. We know at the start f the book that there are five out there and some of them live together under Ariadne's control, but Lantern is missing and they want to find her.
The niggles I had with this book came largely from the sexual relationship which began very suddenly and didn't really seem overly romantic or developed. I found this relationship a little hard to swallow and it didn't feel overly authentic to me.
I also found that some of the things that happened in this story were a little too predictable for me and although I enjoyed it on the whole it didn't feel quite as original as I had hoped. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, probably it is due to my own vast fantasy reading, but I would have liked a few more shock moments.
The magic of this one is interesting because as I say they are essentially immortal and get reborn into new bodies when they die. They also each have a magic which is to do with their name so Key can unlock things, Breath can steal Breath, Map can navigate and locate and Hound can track. Lantern is a bit more of na enigma at first.
Overall, this was a fun story and I read it quickly and enjoyed it, but it didn't leave me with a really strong feeling about it. I wish it had been a little bit more emotional and developed because then I may have really loved it, but on the whole it's a fun one :) 3*s from me which is 6/10 for SPFBO.
I wasn't too sure what this story would be like from the cover, it seemed a little bit stylised, sexy, urban, and witch-crafty all at once...and to some extent this story does have all of those elements. This is a book which is very magical right from the start. We are following a character who is called Eric and he works for a lady called Ariadne. She used to be a lover of his, and they have a fairly good relationship still, until he realises that some of the jobs he's been doing for her aren't overly legal and certainly have horrible repercussions. He's even noticed that some of the people he's had to track are now dead!
Eric as a character isn't really someone I connected to at first, he's not a bad guy, but he's mixed up in a bit of trouble and I don't think I would be the sort of person to get on with him too well in reality. However, his story was interesting enough to me and I quickly got hooked when he started to meet the Powers.
In this book we have 5 characters who are known as Powers. They are: Breath, Map, Lantern, Hound and Key. They are all basically immortals and they keep being reborn into new bodies each time they die. We know at the start f the book that there are five out there and some of them live together under Ariadne's control, but Lantern is missing and they want to find her.
The niggles I had with this book came largely from the sexual relationship which began very suddenly and didn't really seem overly romantic or developed. I found this relationship a little hard to swallow and it didn't feel overly authentic to me.
I also found that some of the things that happened in this story were a little too predictable for me and although I enjoyed it on the whole it didn't feel quite as original as I had hoped. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, probably it is due to my own vast fantasy reading, but I would have liked a few more shock moments.
The magic of this one is interesting because as I say they are essentially immortal and get reborn into new bodies when they die. They also each have a magic which is to do with their name so Key can unlock things, Breath can steal Breath, Map can navigate and locate and Hound can track. Lantern is a bit more of na enigma at first.
Overall, this was a fun story and I read it quickly and enjoyed it, but it didn't leave me with a really strong feeling about it. I wish it had been a little bit more emotional and developed because then I may have really loved it, but on the whole it's a fun one :) 3*s from me which is 6/10 for SPFBO.