When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
by C.S. Harris
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Author: C.S. HarrisEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN: 0451222555
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
Book Review: The weakest in the series by far
Summary: 2 Stars
I am reading the St. Cyr mysteries in reverse order. And a good thing, too. If I had read this one first, I probably wouldn't have hung around for the two or three that follow.
The story was surprisingly repetitive and tiresome. Dear Ms Harris, we know Devlin and Kat are lovers. It is completely unnecesary-and down right ANNOYING-that their almost every encounter ends in sex or pleas for an acceptance of a marriage proposal. They are star-crossed and can never be together. The reader is bored by it, but gets it. And yes, yes-we KNOW that Devlin had strange yellow-almost feral eyyes. I lost count of the times the writer discribed the protagonist's peepers. We KNOOOOOWWW that Devlin is smarter, better, faster than the rest because Harris tells us this over and over and over again.
The mystery itself was convoluted and strangely simplistic. Its a good thing that Devlin cared so much about the murder, because this reader sure didn't. There were just too many characters and goings on that contributed to the lack of cohesiveness that chacterized this book. It seemed that the writer added the cast of characters to make a boring set-up more interesting. It didn't work.
The writer spent so much time waxing poetic about Devlin and building up the cast of characters that she neglected the actual mystery-which was not that hard to figure out.
Jarvis,his daugher Hero and Tom the tiger were the most intriguing characters in the book but were terribly under utilized.
Over all, this book was just o.k. Not as good as the rest, but not bad enough to make me abandon the series. I hope for better next time.
Summary of When Gods Die: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
The young wife of an aging marquis is found murdered in the arms of the Prince Regent. Around her neck lies a necklace said to have been worn by Druid priestesses-that is, until it was lost at sea with its last owner, Sebastian St. Cyr's mother. Now Sebastian is lured into a dangerous investigation of the marchioness's death-and his mother's uncertain fate.
As he edges closer to the truth-and one murder follows another-he confronts a conspiracy that imperils those nearest him and threatens to bring down the monarchy.
As he edges closer to the truth-and one murder follows another-he confronts a conspiracy that imperils those nearest him and threatens to bring down the monarchy.
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