Jilly's Reviews > Deadly Descendant

After the first book in this series, with its unique world of miscellaneous demi-gods running around, I was excited to keep reading. But, this one fell a little flat for me.


Sometimes life dishes out cruel jokes.

First, we have our main character, Nikki, who is mostly loved by readers for being a heroine who makes good decisions and stays level-headed. But, in this one, she makes some of those typical bad choices that everyone wants to kick her ass over. She also does an awful lot of angsting and over-thinking in this one. There is tons of inner dialogue that goes back and forth over and over again. It is monotonous.


Look, if you want to run in circles, that's your choice. I just want to sit here quietly in this plastic circle..

Second, there were problems in some of the scenes that made them unbelievable. There was one scene where all nine of the people living in the mansion got together to discuss how to handle a problem and most of those people never said one word. The dialogue was mainly Nikki and the leader, Anderson, with a couple of small sentences by two others. I have a hard time believing that all of these other demi-gods with alpha personalities would sit in on this meeting and never say one word. I was just left feeling like it would have been better if the author hadn't put them in the room if they weren't going to talk.


That must be what's going on, right?

Which leads to the next problem. The side characters are too under-developed. There are only nine people living in this house. We should at least have a physical description of them. And yet, there are two guys - Leo and Logan - that we have never heard one word of description over. How can you live with these people and never run into them or make a mention about anything they say or how they look. It's weird.


and this is your roommate, Logan.. and his twin, Leo..

Finally, I am going to point out one of my biggest problems with the book that is going to be very unpopular. I don't like the romance between Nikki and Jamaal. *ducks head*. Jamaal beat the shit out of Nikki - twice!! He supposedly feels bad about it and she has forgiven him, but again in this book he knocks her down, grabs her, and lashes out at her. Why is she attracted to this? Abusive behavior is fine if the guy is hot? No. I hate when books do this. Nikki has always seemed to be a logical thinker and yet she is interested in a guy who has absolutely no control over his anger. Not only is it hard to believe, but it's very stupid.


See, it's adorable when a man swats your ass or punches you in the face like Jamaal did. She should say "thank you"!

Other than those problems with the book, I liked the basic story of them trying to catch this death-god guy. That part was pretty good. I just hope the next book gets better and either Jamaal truly redeems himself by showing that he can NOT physically abuse Nikki, or she ends up with a different guy.