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I went on a binge and read all 3 books back to back this past week. Then I sat on writing my review for about 5 days while I thought about it.

So many thoughts to have to parse thru. It's not an immediate "must buy" for me as a series. There be problems in these books indeed. So I'll jump into why I like and don't like, and try to separate out any potential spoilers.

First, I like a heroine who's been trashed in life and is fighting her way back out of it. There were so many things I liked about Kit and her temperament and outlook on life. Then there were things that just didn't ring true.

~~Book 1 spoiler~~~
Her quickness to bond so deeply with Damon, for example Yeah - it took a whole book, but that's it, it took one book. no, she's not declaring everlasting love for him at the end of book 1 but she allows herself to be bonded with him fully understanding what that means for him. So that implies she's an idiot and doesn't fully appreciate how serious this bond is for him and his whole life, or she's suffered through some horrible abuse and learned to be a very untrusting person yet now implicitly trusts this guy. Those two don't go together She either needed to resist the bonding with him, or she needed to - well, she needed to resist the bonding with him to be true to the character the author fashioned.

~~Book 2 spoiler~~~
Our hero, Damon, is all about Kit and tells her to trust trust trust him, then he breaks it off with her over one incident. I found that whole scene too false to be believed, and frankly our heroine too stupid to live for letting it happen to her. His dumping of her, I mean. It was a deliberate moment in the plot when the author just really needed X to happen in order to have Y happen, and it was contrived. And don't even get me started on Kit's kidnapping. Believe me - I do NOT want to read long drawn out torture scenes and explicit rape scenes and cutting or mutilating or anything like that. But the author totally bailed on us the reader by how severely she skimped over the time period that Kit spent captured by the bad guy who's name escapes me right now. The author really failed to invest us in Kit's agony. I don't know if she was afraid to write it or just didn't have the skills but I really haven't felt this robbed in a long time. It was a critical point in kit's character development.

~~~Book 3 spoiler~~~
I really objected to how the scene with Kit, Damon, and Sam played out. Really, strongly objected to that. It didn't ring true. If Kit's that much of a hard ass then she wouldn't be back with Damon at all, and would blame him just as much as she does Sam. Makes no sense at all to me.

I also objected to Kit not doing every single possible thing she could to restore her sword bond. And there were things that could be tried. To walk away from any avenue that might bring help made zero sense to me. To see her do it made me think less of her as a character.

I objected to the amount of time that Kit spent on her own away from Damon healing. He was crazy for her and monitoring her whereabouts. Really, he only attempted to break thru to her one time? That was it? Made no sense. Made no sense that when she did come out he was pretty casual about it.

~~end spoilers~~
Finally, there were pieces of other major urban fantasy plot points in this book from other authors. I was very strongly reminded of the Kate Daniels series, for example. Felt like too much of a coincidence regarding young Doyle. It also felt like the author had a real hero worship case on a certain lion shifter and patterned Damon after him.

Then there was her friend, TJ. She starts out the books with us being led to believe she's this super strong person, and then by book 3 the author twists that and makes you believe something different about her. I didn't buy into that, as didn't really see the evidence to back up what the author wanted us to believe.

And the bad guy went to jail? Really? I thought we were reading urban fantasy with all types of magical creatures capable of outrageous powers and abilities, where we have not one but two dominant alpha hero characters and a kick ass bad heroine, and the bad guy was safely escorted to jail where he's locked up to get out another day to play Luther to her Super Woman? Seriously? I can't believe Kit didn't take care of him, frankly, but then to not have the Alpha succeed at it after having his woman and his trust so violated? To not have one of the strongest practicing wizards ever not take him out? Especially when he felt so badly for how things ended up on his watch to one of his closest friends?

The longer I write this the more I'm thinking I made need to change this rating down even more. I get that it's hard to write, and hard to write a series where the characters are all expected to grow from book to book. This one needed a stronger compass on who the heroine and her friends really are and what they will do when the crap hits the fan. They weren't also the people we were led to believe they were.


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Broken Blade` Colbana Files Volume 3 J C Daniels 9780989460514 Books Reviews

Guess I'm in the minority here but, while I thought some parts of this book were slightly entertaining, for the most part, I just found it frustrating and annoying. It's not that I couldn't understand that Kit was "broken" and struggling to recover--it's just that, unlike everyone else that seems to be reviewing this book, it all just struck me as far too melodramatic and as a result, it fell flat and wasn't an emotional read for me. I would've given it 3 stars if not for the fact that I also kept feeling a strong sense of deja vu throughout this book because there were times when it felt like wait a minute am I reading Lilith St Crow? Or didn't this already happen in Magic Bleeds? That coupled with the fact that there has been little to no character development over the course of three books has me wondering whether or not I want to continue this series. It used to be one of my favorites.

The thing is, a person can only experience so much pain (mentally or physically) before they shut off and block it out but the author basically has Kit living in a near constant state of misery and fear throughout a good 50% of this book so it got to the point where I just got annoyed because this seemed like overkill to me. We get it. Kit is Broken but it's like the author couldn't let anything happen without creating pages of angst and melodrama concerning Kit's abusive past (this has always been the case but it's reached Dante Valentine proportions).

That's another thing. This book is pretty short and the author only releases one Colbana book a year. Kit basically spends 60% of this one struggling with nightmares and schizophrenia--nothing new there. Like literally, I felt like there was NOTHING NEW THERE. There was an awful lot of struggling and rehashing of all the same old nightmares she's been struggling with since book 1. I don't remember her having many new nightmares with Jude--I'm sure they were there, but honestly, it's hard to tell cause they all blur together and seem exactly the same. I often felt like I was reading a Dante Valentine book--and not in a good way. To me, the way Kit wallowed in misery didn't seem cathartic (in other words I didnt feel like there was any character development whatsoever) or even that realistic (it takes years to recover from rape and you would think she'd be dying to get back to work--to do ANYTHING to keep busy and block everything out).

I also really don't like how the author keeps dumbing Kit down in order to make her plots fit--or worse, she will just have Kit ignoring obvious things in order to keep her plots from advancing so she can save them for the next books (why? This book felt almost incomplete given the way many things were ignored and left unaddressed). For instance, the whole business with Doyle has been painfully obvious since book 1--why did it take so long to work it in? Is it gonna be another 3 books until we finally figure out the rest of his personal history? It's certainly looking like it.

This just got more and more annoying to me because it didn't stop with Doyle. Kit is told numerous times in this book exactly why the cat shifters are treating her a certain way yet she ignores this over and over again (doesn't even acknowledge it!) so that the author can use this as an opportunity to provide yet more proof of how "broken" Kit is (sure she says all the right things a victim would say but come on! This was ridiculous considering Kit was repeatedly told--in no uncertain terms--the real reason for the shifters behavior towards her). At one point in this book Justin offers to help heal Kit's bond with her sword but she won't even consider it--not even after she is advised by others to do so (so annoying). At yet another point in this book Es tells Kit that the witches are some of the few people who happen to have info on aneria history and that Kit will one day soon need to know what little info they have--and she says this all very cryptically (which doesn't make much sense considering there is no good reason for Es to be cryptic about something like this--especially considering what happens after!). Kit, of course, "shies" away from the idea and just ignores it in favor of more angst. Most of all the thing that pissed me off is that Damon acted like a total d-bag at the end of the last book but the author just ignores this and instead creates some drama about the Sam and the phone call--because apparently Sam is now the one at fault for the way Damon broke up with her.
I went on a binge and read all 3 books back to back this past week. Then I sat on writing my review for about 5 days while I thought about it.

So many thoughts to have to parse thru. It's not an immediate "must buy" for me as a series. There be problems in these books indeed. So I'll jump into why I like and don't like, and try to separate out any potential spoilers.

First, I like a heroine who's been trashed in life and is fighting her way back out of it. There were so many things I liked about Kit and her temperament and outlook on life. Then there were things that just didn't ring true.

~~Book 1 spoiler~~~
Her quickness to bond so deeply with Damon, for example Yeah - it took a whole book, but that's it, it took one book. no, she's not declaring everlasting love for him at the end of book 1 but she allows herself to be bonded with him fully understanding what that means for him. So that implies she's an idiot and doesn't fully appreciate how serious this bond is for him and his whole life, or she's suffered through some horrible abuse and learned to be a very untrusting person yet now implicitly trusts this guy. Those two don't go together She either needed to resist the bonding with him, or she needed to - well, she needed to resist the bonding with him to be true to the character the author fashioned.

~~Book 2 spoiler~~~
Our hero, Damon, is all about Kit and tells her to trust trust trust him, then he breaks it off with her over one incident. I found that whole scene too false to be believed, and frankly our heroine too stupid to live for letting it happen to her. His dumping of her, I mean. It was a deliberate moment in the plot when the author just really needed X to happen in order to have Y happen, and it was contrived. And don't even get me started on Kit's kidnapping. Believe me - I do NOT want to read long drawn out torture scenes and explicit rape scenes and cutting or mutilating or anything like that. But the author totally bailed on us the reader by how severely she skimped over the time period that Kit spent captured by the bad guy who's name escapes me right now. The author really failed to invest us in Kit's agony. I don't know if she was afraid to write it or just didn't have the skills but I really haven't felt this robbed in a long time. It was a critical point in kit's character development.

~~~Book 3 spoiler~~~
I really objected to how the scene with Kit, Damon, and Sam played out. Really, strongly objected to that. It didn't ring true. If Kit's that much of a hard ass then she wouldn't be back with Damon at all, and would blame him just as much as she does Sam. Makes no sense at all to me.

I also objected to Kit not doing every single possible thing she could to restore her sword bond. And there were things that could be tried. To walk away from any avenue that might bring help made zero sense to me. To see her do it made me think less of her as a character.

I objected to the amount of time that Kit spent on her own away from Damon healing. He was crazy for her and monitoring her whereabouts. Really, he only attempted to break thru to her one time? That was it? Made no sense. Made no sense that when she did come out he was pretty casual about it.

~~end spoilers~~
Finally, there were pieces of other major urban fantasy plot points in this book from other authors. I was very strongly reminded of the Kate Daniels series, for example. Felt like too much of a coincidence regarding young Doyle. It also felt like the author had a real hero worship case on a certain lion shifter and patterned Damon after him.

Then there was her friend, TJ. She starts out the books with us being led to believe she's this super strong person, and then by book 3 the author twists that and makes you believe something different about her. I didn't buy into that, as didn't really see the evidence to back up what the author wanted us to believe.

And the bad guy went to jail? Really? I thought we were reading urban fantasy with all types of magical creatures capable of outrageous powers and abilities, where we have not one but two dominant alpha hero characters and a kick ass bad heroine, and the bad guy was safely escorted to jail where he's locked up to get out another day to play Luther to her Super Woman? Seriously? I can't believe Kit didn't take care of him, frankly, but then to not have the Alpha succeed at it after having his woman and his trust so violated? To not have one of the strongest practicing wizards ever not take him out? Especially when he felt so badly for how things ended up on his watch to one of his closest friends?

The longer I write this the more I'm thinking I made need to change this rating down even more. I get that it's hard to write, and hard to write a series where the characters are all expected to grow from book to book. This one needed a stronger compass on who the heroine and her friends really are and what they will do when the crap hits the fan. They weren't also the people we were led to believe they were.