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Actual Rating: 2.5 starsI rounded up with my rating because of Hippos! I think book 1 and 2 should be read together. Right from the start, the reader is required to be immediately emotionally invested and I just wasn't. It felt like I had to play catch-up with the narration. I love the setting though. It almost makes up for the characters feeling off. The characters themselves are amazing, but to me, seemed overly emotional. Could just be a me problem though. Will still read the next one though,...
2.5 stars.Along the same lines as book one. It was an entertaining enough plot although very simplistic but what brought it down for me was that the actions of one characters seemed a bit ridiculous to me. Again I think the book needed to be a bit longer so everything could be developed a bit further. Still it entertained me for a couple of hours and the concept is so unique.
Actual rating: 2.5 stars and a half. ☠ DNF at 72%. Because I'm strong willed like that.➻ Before I begin what promises to be yet another scintillating review thing, let me quote the blurb for this book, just for kicks:"Campbell finalist Sarah Gailey's hippo mayhem continues in Taste of Marrow, the sequel to rollicking adventure River of Teeth.""Mayhem?" "Rolicking?"Sorry, couldn't help it.So. Given how delightful I thought book 1 in this series was, I wasn't going to read this one. But: 1/I am a
I loved the first book, a hippo-packed bloody romp with great characters. In this sequel we still have the fantastic characters and murderous feral hippos but the plot's gone awol, at least for the first half. It's basically the characters in two groups hanging around not being able to find each other, which is not dynamic. It all kicks into gear once the plot mechanics start moving, and then lots happens very fast, but it's hard not to feel the structure is underdeveloped and this is really mor...
In the aftermath of The Harriet operation, the crew is scattered. Hero and Houndstooth think one another dead. Adelia has baby Ysabel to contend with... until she doesn't. All roads lead to Baton Rouge and the gang may find themselves on opposite sides...This one had been on my wish list since I finished River of Teeth. Fortunately, Richard rode to my rescue on the back of a hippo steed yet again.Set months after River of Teeth, the gang is scattered to the four winds. Ysabel is kidnapped and Ad...
4.5*s Full review to come soon
I don't have much to say about this one.I didn't even dislike it - it's just that I will forget everything about it in a few days, if not hours. It's that forgettable. And the main reason this didn't work for me was the pacing, which was terrible.Novellas often have pacing problems, that's nothing new; some of them feel like rushed novels and others like watered-down short stories. But Taste of Marrow - or, I have to say, the whole River of Teeth series - takes "bad novella pacing" to a whole ne...
Sarah's follow up to River of Teeth, with its gender fluid characters and feral, man-eating hippos. A delightfully gory story of what would have happened if America moved forward with hippo farms - breeding them as an alternate source of meet on the riverfronts. Taste of Marrow picks up where RoT ended, following our main characters Houndstooth and Archie, and Adelia and Hero, from the point where they are forced to separate after the damn broke and the ferals were introduced to the main populat...
actual rating: 3.5I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as the first one, I think mostly because the majority of the page time is spent jumping between the two groups of characters as they slowly get closer to meeting up again. For me it definitely lacks the high stakes excitement of the heist in the first book, but it does pick up at the end when all of the characters finally reunite. Also Hero and Houndstooth are just too adorable. If she decides to write another book in this series I hope we...
