Comments on: REVIEW: Elijah by Jacquelyn Frank

By: Lynn Magni

Lynn Magni — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:44:10 +0000

Hi everyone, I completely disagree with everyone who doesn’t like Jacqueline Franks series. I absolutely love them. I couldn’t put them down.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:39:36 +0000

Janine B: You bring up a good point. This book is different from the first two in the series. I think it wouldn’t be inaccurate to say that readers who liked the first two books might find this one not to their taste, but those who didn’t like the first two books at all might find this works for them better.

By: Janine B

Janine B — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:44:03 +0000

I liked the first two J. Frank books much better than this one. While I liked the strong heroine, I found the hero to be too weak for my tastes. I will get the next one, just to see what happens… though I’ll probably wait for it to hit the library or buy a used one.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:22:26 +0000

Darlynne: That’s the biggest disappointment of all. I think if the plot had been better developed and if some of the overwriting were cut back, this book could have been fantastic.

By: K. Z. Snow

K. Z. Snow — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:20:49 +0000

That’s a damned shame. I’m always on the lookout for books with unique premises. But if a premise is poorly executed, no dose of conceptual originality is going to redeem it.

By: lisabea

lisabea — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:20:40 +0000

I did try one of these and found it lacked depth. It just didn’t engage me. And because they all look alike, I can’t remember which one I tried!

By: Darlynne

Darlynne — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:48:18 +0000

I liked Elijah and Sienna as characters, but skipped HUGE sections of description and internal thoughts. There was so little plot or meaningful dialog and I had such hopes for more.

By: Aoife

Aoife — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:39:40 +0000

I can't decide whether I want to try Elijah or not. I read Jacob, and liked it enough to forgive some of the wordiness and plot and characterization holes as first book issues. I got about 70 pages into Gideon and realized that, if anything, the things that had bothered me about Jacob had actually gotten worse, and gave up.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:34:52 +0000

MB: Jacob was a tough book to finish. If that didn’t work for you, I recommend skipping Gideon as well because I thought that was more of the same. That said, I do think Elijah is a much better book, just because Siena is a far more interesting heroine than either Isabella or Magdelegna. (And a far less annoying one when compared to Isabella.) But since you’ve read the previous two, you know what I’m talking about when I refer to the lengthy blocks of exposition.

Carolyn Jean – I found Elijah and Siena to be more interesting than the previous books’ couples and because of them, now I’m at least curious to see how the final two books will play out whereas if I’d just been basing things on the first two books, I wouldn’t even have considered it.

By: carolyn Jean

carolyn Jean — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:59:54 +0000

Gosh, I love this comment edit function, guys!

By: carolyn Jean

carolyn Jean — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:58:44 +0000

I’d actually never heard of this series, but I see that late plot start a lot. Though like you, I’ll forgive a TON if I’m caught up in the story. Oh, oh, oh, to think what I’ve read just to see what happens. Though it doesn’t sound like this book is all that bad. Interesting and unique characters, like the lycanthropes you mention above, will save a lot for me. I love characters who are interesting and hold together, personality/action-wise.

By: MB (Leah)

MB (Leah) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:19:25 +0000

Well, crap. I just finished “Jacob,” or to be more correct, I didn’t finish it. One of my few DNF’s. I have this book as well and was hoping it would be better. I still might try and read it, but now it will go to the bottom of the TBR pile. Bummer.