The Becoming (The Anna Strong Chronicles, Book 1)
Average Rating: 3.5 Stars
by Jeanne C. Stein
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ace
ISBN: 0441014569
Product Description
Anna Strong is trained for anything-until she's attacked one night, only to awaken in a dark world that exists between the living and the dead. Here, Anna struggles with her love for the two men who inhabit the realms of each: Max, a human DEA agent, and Avery, a Night Watcher who joins Anna in pursuit of the vampire who changed her life.
Now, as her two worlds collide, fate plunges Anna into the ultimate battle between good and evil where survival is not just for the living.
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Customer Reviews
Interesting premise starts well then struggles
3 Stars
An interesting new urban fantasy series follows the transformation of
Anna Strong, bounty hunter, through the vicious attack that leaves her
a vampire. The beginning of the book is very compelling as we learn,
along with Anna, about her new nature. But then the book struggles.
The world of vampires (and possibly other things that go bump in the
night) feels small. We only ever see two other vampires. With urban
fantasy book, I expect a hidden world more grand than humans can
imagine. Anna herself is a bit obnoxious at times, snapping and
pulling major attitude at people who are trying to help her. I also
found the book a bit long for the story. It could have had better
pace as a novella.
Sexual Content:
Not overly graphic, but there are a few brief sex scenes.
~ PollyWannaBook,
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Amazing!
5 Stars
I finished this book in 3 days! Couldn't put it down! Actually, I was so engrossed in the book/series, I lost sleep for 10 days reading this book and the other two of th series.
~ M. Olsen, USA!
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The Becoming
3 Stars
Anna Strong is just your typical teacher-turned-bounty hunter that chases down bail skippers when one of the skips gives Anna and her partner the slip. After leaving her partner (David) unconscious in an alley the skip comes back to brutalize Anna and leaves her for dead. A day or two later (after being seriously sedated at the hospital) Anna gets better and completely loses her reflection. Shocker.
But nothing is ever too easy and once Anna finds out about her new undead status her house burns down and her partner, David, gets kidnapped. Anna is counciled by her new vampire 'Family' to just let it go - that since David is mortal he no longer really matters. Anna is convinced his kidnapping is her fault and takes all necessary steps to find him. This leads her to question her instincts and the many of the people that she knows.
The plot is okay. Nothing too far out of line here. I was a tad weirded out by how easily she accepted the idea of sex with a strange vampire but hey, who am I to judge? Those bits were even glossed over... There also seemed to be no motive given for the villain. Was he just bad? There is absolutely no backstory on him - making him very shallow and Anna is very nearly as bad.
There does seem to be an effort to expand the plot near the end where one of the vampires says something about the villain being right, that Anna is 'the One' which is so cliche ... And the worst thing is that Anna doesn't even pick up on it.
~ Maria Waltner, Cincinnati, Ohio United States
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