Declare Books To Hunter (Hunter #1)
Original Title: | Hunter |
ISBN: | 1484707842 (ISBN13: 9781484707845) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Hunter #1 |
Mercedes Lackey
Hardcover | Pages: 374 pages Rating: 3.98 | 6394 Users | 1057 Reviews
Particularize Of Books Hunter (Hunter #1)
Title | : | Hunter (Hunter #1) |
Author | : | Mercedes Lackey |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 374 pages |
Published | : | September 1st 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Magic. Fiction |
Chronicle Toward Books Hunter (Hunter #1)
They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares.Monsters.
Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it’s taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them safe from the hideous creatures fighting to break through. Others are not so lucky.
To Joyeaux Charmand, who has been a Hunter in her tight-knit mountain community since she was a child, every Cit without magic deserves her protection from dangerous Othersiders. Then she is called to Apex City, where the best Hunters are kept to protect the most important people.
Joy soon realizes that the city’s powerful leaders care more about luring Cits into a false sense of security than protecting them. More and more monsters are getting through the barriers, and the close calls are becoming too frequent to ignore. Yet the Cits have no sense of how much danger they’re in—to them, Joy and her corps of fellow Hunters are just action stars they watch on TV.
When an act of sabotage against Joy takes an unbearable toll, she uncovers a terrifying conspiracy in the city. There is something much worse than the usual monsters infiltrating Apex. And it may be too late to stop them…
Rating Of Books Hunter (Hunter #1)
Ratings: 3.98 From 6394 Users | 1057 ReviewsNotice Of Books Hunter (Hunter #1)
Maybe I was sufficiently warned from other reviews, or maybe I'm just used to Lackey's style at this point, but I had no trouble getting into this book. The start was slow, but I genuinely enjoyed being slowly introduced to this weird science fiction/fantasy world. It's incredibly complex, with its mythology and politics, and I love that Joy is at the center of it; she's keeping the secrets of the place where she grew up while also playing the game and being a good Hunter for the higher-ups. II am with the majority - infodumps, Mary Sue MC and recycled YA tropes galore.
Review first published on my blog The Fictional ReaderThis book. To be honest, as Im sitting down to write this review, I have no idea where its going to go. Because I dont think I have coherent thoughts on this book at all. I both loved it, and disliked it. And my brain cant quite figure out which emotion will win.WORLD/SETTINGSo this book is set in our future, which makes it in my opinion a dystopian novel. In said future, things were going horribly wrong and people thought the Apocalypse was
I love the mix of different cultures as well as the world building in this series. The heroine is amazing and I wish I could fight alongside her or see her in action. She's super cool. The spells and the magic are really well imagined. Love the colors of the hunters and the fact that they have channels people follow. It's fantasy but with enough of a real world overlap, it feels like it could happen.
~Thanks Netgalley for providing a review copy in exchange for my honest review~Actual rating: 2.5 stars, generously rounded upHunter isnt so bad. It isnt compelling either.This book places itself in the well-established tradition of dystopian YA, such as The Hunger Games and Prodigy, with a slight touch of fantasy and a bunch of mythological stuff. It mixes up bullets and magic in a post-apocalyptic world threatened by monsters from the Otherworld. Only corps of Hunters with magical skills and
Man, I wanted to like this one so much more than I did. I tried. I really did. But after putting it down a couple of times and not really caring if I picked it back up, I finally DNF-ed it. This is why:- The writing style is really strange. The MC keeps addressing the reader but youre never really sure why/who shes even talking to. Is she telling her story to someone? Breaking the fourth wall only works occasionally and it didnt here. Plus, wtf is up with the weird combinations of words like
This sounds like Attack on Titan.
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