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Place to discuss Slayers - I am hoping to get to this later this month

I just started it. It really starts off with a bang and now I'm into it. Of course, I'm only a few chapters in.

Yay! I bought it for my Kindle and I'm looking forward to reading it. Probably will get to it next week. :)

I just ordered this on Amazon! Should get my book in a week or so I hope :)

Got if from the library and will start soon. My sweetheart saw it on the shelf and asked, "What's this?" Told him it was for the Hidden Gems read. "Oh okay," was his response. Apparently this monthly reading group is now a mainstay in my house. :)

mainstay?

She means a regular thing Oda :) Yay Elora!! That makes me happy.

I finished it today! I really enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun!!!! Of course, I know I'm easy to please and not everybody usually agrees with me. But just thought I'd say I thought Oda picked a great one, In fact I already bought the second book!! Crossing my fingers that everyone else enjoys it!!! :). Thanks Oda!!!

Donna wrote: "I finished it today! I really enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun!!!! Of course, I know I'm easy to please and not everybody usually agrees with me. But just thought I'd say I thought Oda picked a grea..."

a... Sooo happy you loved it tho would be suprised if you dident.
Its a quartet so there are 3 more books to look forward to, book three comes out soonish I think.

Heidi (Yup. Still here.) wrote: "She means a regular thing Oda :) Yay Elora!! That makes me happy."

Thanks for the claryfication.
I know I could google it but amold fashioned like to learn from people not searches.

No problem Oda!

Also, the author is active on facebook. Its really fun to see what she posts.( the books are written by janette rallison, c,j hill is her alias)

This was a pretty great book with lots of action. I loved the dragons and I think Tori's abilities are pretty awesome. I will probably continue with the series!

Glad to hear you liked it, Donna and Erin! I might have to postpone reading it until next week since I have to finish up some library books first, but I'm excited about it. I love dragons!

There were some things in the beginning that I really didn't like...the mention of hot, muscled men and the obvious love triangle lead-in. (view spoiler)[ I thought the back story was a little far-fetched and too detail oriented to work--it may have been better just to say that they didn't know how people became Slayers. (hide spoiler)] Other than that, I liked it. I thought the action picked up at the end.

Oda wrote: "mainstay?"

sorry, Oda, for the confusion. :)

Heidi (Yup. Still here.) wrote: "She means a regular thing Oda :) Yay Elora!! That makes me happy."

Me too! I've gotten TONS of great book recommendations from this group! :)

Elora wrote: "Oda wrote: "mainstay?"

sorry, Oda, for the confusion. :)"

No probs. Fun to learn new words.

Well it is about Dragons its limited how realistic it can be.
And it might help to read the other books in the series, things do get explained more.

lalalalala...read them!
hey its dragon books, so not THAT off topic.

Donna wrote: "The mention of hot, muscled men is never a turn off for me :D Thanks for the other recommendations Oda, I added them to my list! Actually I have Talon, just haven't read it yet. I've heard it's gre..."

Lol, Donna. You make me laugh! :)

I totally get why people would love to read about them, but I guess I kindof feel sorry for guys in the real world. As women, we tend to complain about being sexualized (and I'm not at all saying we aren't-don't even get me started on that!), but I feel that a lot of books list the guy's qualities as being hot or good looking. It kindof puts all their personality/good characteristics as unimportant. I know, I'm weird. But it's just the things I think about. :)

Elora wrote: "Donna wrote: "The mention of hot, muscled men is never a turn off for me :D Thanks for the other recommendations Oda, I added them to my list! Actually I have Talon, just haven't read it yet. I've ..."

I agree with that.
I kind of would like more love interest with great smiles but "bad" bods.

Started it today.
I get the crtitique.
But still love the world++
I think its because dragons are usually something that you assosiate with high fantasy,its so fun seeing it in modern day.

@Elora - That's not weird, I totally agree! Sexualizing/objectifying anyone is not a good thing. No one should be seen/treated as a sexual object. The problem may be worse for women, but men can definitely be objectified, too.

@Oda - That's also something I like about the book! I haven't gotten very far in it, but I agree that it's cool to see dragons in a modern-day setting, since I feel like that's quite rare.

I finished the book earlier today.
Upon rereading it I do see someplotholes, but still love it very much.
The first time I read it I focused more on the plot than Tori`s snobbishness, still you have to excuse her with her ubrining it would be strange if she isent like she is. I suppose she is kinda buffy-ish kick ass but in heels.
Also, love Rosa and Bess. Appriciated Rosa more this time around.
Actually got so into it, I just started rereading the sequel.

Finished at last! Oda I agree with you about Rosa and Bess––they were my favorite characters by far. They're really cool and Bess was so funny. :)

Other than that though, I had trouble connecting with any of the other characters. Like you said, it made sense that Tori was kind of a snob, but I just ... didn't like her. :P Plus I felt like the romance/love triangle was extremely forced and took a lot away from the book. And in general I wish there'd been more focus on actually fighting dragons and less on the drama, training, etc. It got kinda repetitive. So, over all the book was just okay for me, but it was a quick and fun read!

I finally started this last night! So far I'm really liking it, but not too far in yet.

I finally finished this last night! Overall, I liked it! I actually really liked Tori, and most of the characters. Actually, my fave was Dirk (view spoiler)[ even though I realized pretty early on that he was hiding something, he was such a fleshed out character and very interesting to me. And although he was their mole, his motives did make sense. (hide spoiler)]

I wish there had been more action, I agree with Brigid that the training parts got to be old. And the love triangle was totally unnecessary IMO. But a fun read!