Capture All Your Wishes (Blood Singer, #7) Chronicled By Cat Adams In Electronic Format
Bruno dying, I hated his character so much, It made me enjoy the book quite a bit more than I would have done, Now, if only Celia would get a backbone and stand up for herself and the series would become so much more entertaining.
Everyone treated Celia like crap, and as usual she never stuck up for herself, Most characters acted hostile/suspicious/bitchy around her, it was super boring to have the MC bitched at constantly, especially when there was no bitching back.
Why on earth was Celia blamed for everything I think it's become a UF staple to have the heroine be blamed for every bad thing to happen.
Also, hardly anyone helped Celia unless something was in it for them, even though she did everything for those around her.
Which again is like every other UF heroine, they're all written the same way and it's just not interesting,
Why did Celia not have an emergency stash of nutrition shakes/food on her when she knew how severe the consequences would be if she didn't eat/drink regularly She always seemed to get in situations where she needed food urgently to stop from killing people, yet she never learned to feed herself regularly or keep lots of emergency food.
It felt like half the book was taken up with just Celia being pointlessly questioned by various law people.
There should have been less of that and more actual plot, as well as more of Celia standing up for herself.
Another good book in this series, I was surprised by some parts of the ending, Will be looking for more! Is this the end of Celia Graves and this fresh series with its totally engaging cast of characters and savetheworld story lines
Well, regardless of the answer to that question, All Your Wishes has it all: dire foreboding, a sketchy client, betrayals, failures, and devastating losses.
And lots of action. For the most part, reasonable plot akin to a good episode of CSI or Buffy, But a epic final battle and decent denouement, just when she thought she'd faced it all, . .
never assume
Now facing off with djinn and world ending powers, cecila is at a loss how her part vamp part siren self is suppose to save the entire world.
Will her efforts be enough to change the course before her
The clairvoyants believe in her though she's at a loss as to how one tiny mortal can stand against this much evil power.
Time is running out, stay tuned to see if she can stop the djinn and make him get back into the bottle before he ruins the entire planet.
I don't know why I'm such an optimist on books, I keep thinking that the books will get better the further you get into a series, Sometimes this does happen. But not with this series, This book felt rushed, mashed together, and then conveniently ended, It felt like at one point they thought they would write more books for the series and changed their minds halfway through this one.
Unfortunately, this series didn't work for me, I hated the ending! Celia Graves is in trouble again, She has taken on a task that just might not end well for the world if she doesn't get an escaped djinn back in his jar.
Good book, I like this series, keep writing them! This series is a pretty good read with a slightly different take on vampires, The touch of siren in the mix adds to the charm, I really like the concept, and for the most part it was pulled off quite well,
That being said, this particular book didn't really stand up to the quality of the others, A few things got repetitive, An example would be in every few paragraphs Celia was told to, "Be careful, " The MC knows to be careful by the time the seventh book comes out, Even if it was an attempt to show friends or family caring about her in the midst her getting hated on by clients, police, and government alike, there was no need for it to be said that often.
The story stayed interesting, and the adventure was still entertaining, All in all, it was good, Not the best or worst thing I've ever read, It was good to finally have a new installment in this series, As we've already been accusomed to, there was great writing, some happy moments and some gut wrenching moments,
I liked that Celia was moving on with things, that she wasn't deterred by the things which have happened to her.
I also liked that the characters mentioned throughout were vivid, nearly alive and given a good chance to play out as well as the appropriate honours when their song ended.
It was very much what we should expect from Cat Adams, because she's amazing at it,
I didn't particularly like, as others have noted, some of the drawbacks that Celia has had in this book.
I agree that there should be people fearful of Celia's power but in any world there should be balance and there seems to be too much hate of Celia and never any fanatics who think she's amazing.
There's hardly anyone with respect for her which she hasn't had to earn and that, even then, is given begrudgingly, It gets a bit tiresome and, above all else, harder to defend, With that kind of antiCelia sentiment, I would have expected her to be locked up already people who hate and fear usually demand witch hunts.
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I also felt that it was a great disappointment to have John Creede mentioned a fair few times in the book and for him to never actually show up.
When Dottie said that there was an ally for every enemy, my mind conjured the mage as an obvious ally at her side.
But seeing as he was only used to draw power here and there, it seemed as though there was no point in bothering to mention him at all.
John Creede needs screen time and space relative to his importance throughout this series if I had picked up this book randomly and read it without any context, I'd never have known the blood and sweat and tears that Creede has poured for Celia.
So in this aspect, I feel very much affronted, I can only wonder if it wasn't Cat after all who had wanted Creede out of the picture,
Regards Bruno, I must say that even though he had his time to shine, it didn't seem like he did a great lot.
And for someone of his power and importance, it again felt like an injustice, But that's done and dusted,
All in all, I'm looking forward to the next book because I'd really love to see where this is headed.
I'm sad because it may be that not everybody comes back to this series after the prolonged hiatus and that would be a great injustice in light of the fact that we all know Cat Adams does amazing writing.
We'll wait and see. Over all this serious was very disappointing, I love Celia Graves and she had so much potential, The entire story line could have been so much better but the fact is, the author/authors didnt put enough detail into the books.
It was basically centered on her always struggling with her nature as an abomination which is a vital part to the story but its not the only part.
Im very accustomed to authors bringing the whole picture together and giving you a story that you can jump right into and feel like youre living every second of the characters lives.
The author left out pieces that I felt were center to the story and often times would skip major scenes all together.
Like the break up with John creed, Dawna being affected by the death of the Über Vamp Lilith, Kevin going through the Zoo and his resulting PTSD, the friendship with Vicki and her death, Bruno dying and breaking Celias heart repeatedly, the history of Celia and the sirens, introducing her grandfather and why he ran away.
I just felt there were so many things that were skipped that should have been explained and the story line was bland and not detailed enough for me.
I would have loved longer books that delved deeper in Celias Life, An ifrit tries to take over Celia Graves's body so he can free thousands of evil djinn to plague mankind!
A client begs Celia Gravespart human, part Siren, part vampireto help return a genie to his bottle.
The attempt makes Celia a target for the currently incorporeal ifrit, If she doesn't give him her body, he'll kill everyone she loves, If she does, he'll use her physical form to free thousands of evil djinn,
Celia's not going to hand over her body, but her client tries to trick her into itso that he can kill the ifrit while it's trapped in her flesh.
That doesn't end well for the client, Celia might not get paid for the gig, but she's got to get the ifrit rebottled before all hell breaks loosepossibly literally!
Now written solely by C.
T. Adams under the Cat Adams name, All Your Wishes continues this outstanding urban fantasy series with a thrilling new adventure, It took me two months and renewing it from the library four times to finally be done with this book, I felt I had to finish it since I had read all the others but this one just dragged on for me.
Glad to be done with it, What did they do! This is not how Celia's story ends, it can't be it!!! There's so much going on in this book and the emotional rollercoaster is almost too much to take.
But seriously, this can't be how it ends because there are like a million questions that weren't answered! As is so often my norm, I've jumped in on Bookin a series about which I know nothing other than this is the book at hand and I'm ready to read it.
That said, there is doubtless considerable backstory, worldbuilding, and context established in the preceding six books that would have informed my reading of All Your Wishes.
The protagonist, Celia Graves, is the proprietor of Graves Personal Protection, She inhabits a world, for all intents and purposes the U, S. , that is peopled by all manner of paranormal creatures including assorted ghosts, demons, werewolves and other shifters, djinns, ifrits, vampires, sirens, etc.
in addition to your gardenvariety humans, As near as I can tell, Celia's
business began as a more traditional bodyguard/security firm but quickly evolved into highrisk paranormal jobs for which she and her team are uniquely qualified given their "very particular set of skills.
" Celia herself is a sirenabout which next to nothing is said other than like the sirens of mythology she is able to compel men to certain actions and is consequently intensely disliked or distrusted by womenhas been bitten but not fully turned by a vamp.
That said, she is able to curb her Hunger by eating the few items of human food that her body is able to stomach and convert into energy.
It can make for some tense moments when she is between protein shakes, but for the most part serves to demonstrate that has a clear code of right and wrong, doesn't wish to chomp on the passersby, but given her quite striking physical appearance is frequently mistaken for a fullon vamp.
On the plus side, because this is a reality in which most of the Things that Go Bump in the Night are out, TSA and otherwise soft targets are frequently equipped with antisiren and presumably other charms.
So, the story, Celia and her crew are on a brief postmove hiatus during which they've agreed not to take any jobs until their unpacked and everything including a ginormo casting circle in the visitor parking lot is all sorted.
She is quickly drawn into a job protecting the life of a Guardian tasked with getting an escaped ifrit back into its jar, a proposition that will likely end in both the client and Celia's or Celie, as her friends refer to herget it, Seelie, you folklore fans demise.
So we go on a mad romp around the country, mercenaries are brought in, chaos and loads of property damage ensue, and the case is brought to its close.
It was a decent read, but not so compelling that I must go find its six predecessors, .