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The Quick by Lauren Owen

The Quick

by Lauren Owen

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  • Jun 2014, 544 pages
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  • Lauren C. (Los Angeles, CA)
    Couldn't finish it
    I got 200 pages into the 500 page book and found it to be uninteresting throughout my read. For the first hundred pages or so it kept jumping genres so I couldn't tell where it was going. Mystical British children's world like "Peter Pan" or "Harry Potter"? Victorian mystery? A fantastical world like "Night Circus"?

    Then by about page 100 It became apparent that this was yet another vampire book perhaps with a few werewolves thrown in. I've read lots of them, so I often like the genre. But if an author is going to tackle this exceptionally well-worn genre she needs to have some new and interesting take on the legends, e.g., the first few Sookie Stackhouse books, Salem's Lot, etc.

    I'm afraid that this standard vampire story in Victorian England just didn't cut it for me. Maybe I missed something really different that happens in the last 300 pages but I feel that 40 of the way through it I didn't anticipate any drastic revelations.
  • Liz B. (Fairview, TX)
    A Cumbersome Read
    The Quick is cumbersome, in more ways than one. It's a large book at 500 pages and the extensive cast of characters and winding plot is honestly a bit exhausting. I did not find it an enjoyable read, especially as I am not particularly fond of the "vampire" genre. It was dark macabre on every level, with characters who showed little or no redeeming qualities. Just not the book for me.

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