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She bathes! Dear Readers, Aliens and Creatures of the Sea! SHE ACTUALLY BATHESSS.😭😭😭 **cries with gratitude** 🖤 ‘Dead Shifter Walking’ has quite a bit going for it.
▪️BASICS:
Official title: Dead Shifter Walking
My title: Wild Underworld Thugs
Author: Kim Schubert
Publisher: #createspacepublishing
Fav character: Gramps
Type: Book – Series
Will I read the others: Probably no
4/5
▪️INTRO:
SIDENOTE: Ok, when authors use ‘olive skin’ to describe people, right? Are they speaking about the greenish sheen of the olive?! Or like… the yellowish green of the oil?! 😭😭😭 Just describe skin shades betterrrrr! Get a pack of crayons or coloured pencils or SOMETHING!
I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEANNNNNNNN! *cries in confusion*
If this olive tone is what I think it is… Not sure how many of us Caribbean people are roaming around with it. 🤣💀
▪️REVIEW:
Olivia 😒, who is not olive skinned, 🤣, is an executioner. When shifters, vamps and other beings step out of hand, she reels them back in with a few knives, a few punches and some expertly used emotions. Olivia is a succubus (took me a while to figure out what her powers were), with the ability to influence emotions greatly and affect words, touches and feelings. She has learnt to use these powers to become an effective killing machine, all thanks to the pile of feces, Serena, we’ll just agree to hate.
Now, back in town with bodies turning up, vamps deciding they want to be known to humans, something weird happening in the shifter ranks and hoomans being humans, Olivia will lose a lot of blood, take a lot of baths, take numerous hits and fight hard for her coven? of succubi and all supernaturals, while avoiding the advances of horny vamps.
Although it’s mentioned that she usually does a lot of killing and blah, blah… 😑 I didn’t get enough. DISAPPOINTTTTMENTTTTTT 🤣🤣🤣
Overall, it was a good story. The world created is pretty interesting and there is room to develop it more.
▪️CONCLUSION:
Now, let’s acknowledge the elephants in the room and some questions I had.
ELEPHANTS:
🤔🤔🤔 Me, staring a this woman mentioning the person having a ‘Caribbean face’ and wondering WTH that is…
🤔🤔🤔 Me, even more confused when said ‘Caribbean-face’ person has OLIVE skin… traumatised because I remember #ashprincess and boggled because… After looking at the pics I have of Caribbean people, looking out of my verandah, looking up the road and looking into the mirror… Olive skin still seems a mystery. 💁♀️💁♀️💁♀️
Norse demigods… but some olive-skinned Caribbean-faced random succubus with exotic brown eyes? What is this?! No Yoruba demigods? Arawak demigods?! Sniff. Unimpressed.
QUESTIONS:
a) Are there are any dark-skinned adult shifters, if yes, please describe their looks in a paragraph;
b) Are there any dark-skinned vampires? If we consider the age of these beings, shouldn’t it follow that there would be AT LEAST a few of them?
c) If Jerry is so important, why do we not get a decent description of him… I can picture Tate, Morgan, Blake, Logan, Gramps… but I can only see Jerry as a dark blob. Is that how he should be seen?
Over to you reader, have you read this one? What were your thoughts?
