Chris' Fish Place

                Of the three Rhine maiden books I’ve read so far this is my least favorite one, and that was before the comment that Piper sees abortion as sacrifice (her husband, it should be noted, is pro-choice).  It is impossible to discuss why without spoilers.  So you have been warned.  Jump at your own risk.

               Okay, the book starts out okay.  I may not agree with Piper in terms of politics but she is a somewhat engaging character.  Undoubtedly this is because despite Piper’s Mary-Sue likness, she does make mistakes.  She might be a Mary Sue (Erin Evans seems to admit this), but she isn’t princess perfect.  She is human, silly, and flawed. 

              But then, this one, this book, is somewhat wearing.  There is too much talking.  An alien comes to enslave or destroy Earth, and you drink Starbucks?  It just seems a little, suburbnite I suppose.The whole bit with the mother in law went over the top here.  But most of all, I hated the ending.  This is one of those end of the world books and then someone sets reset so all the bad things that happen haven’t happened.  You know the first time I saw this it was okay, but too  I many times, way too many times.  And this is especially true here because there are two other books in the series and the product descriptions tell you things. It fells like a painter got painted into a corner and then called on god.

                I’m still going to continue with this series.  I like the humor and friendship between women.  That is so awesome.  But the ending in this one felt like such a cop out.  A look, nothing has changed type of thing.  Considering that we finally have Piper telling her husband about her status and then go back to the way everything was before, seems a bit annoying.

                But I did like the whole deal with the witch pact thing.  That was cool.