If you’ve been following my reviews of de la Cruz’s Blood Bloods series so far you know that they’re either completely irritating or completely lovely to me. The decision to split the point of view and the story into different facets is probably what kept me reading the series.
Lost in Time is a perfect example of why. I find Jack and Schuyler’s romance pretty, but rather angsty and annoying. In this book they try to find the last Gate of Paradise before Jack gives in and faces down his scorned bondmate, Mimi. While they’re in an interesting situation, fighting the half-human, half-demon children of Silver Bloods, and discovering some rather nasty secrets the older Blue Bloods have been keeping their longing/tragic romance is very overpowering. And I wondered, where is the question that was obvious to me: If Schuyler herself is the child of a human and an angel, how is she much different from these demon-kin?
The second story line was the one I fell for, Mimi’s quest to rescue Kingsley from hell and her subsequent evolution into an actual good guy. I especially liked that all these changes, this personal redemption was possible because she, Jack, Schuyler and Bliss began breaking out of the molds set for them by the older Blue Bloods and Blue Blood tradition.
The last story line is very closely connected to Jack and Schuyler’s, it’s the story of Allegra and Charles. The two uncorrupted bondmates who broke apart for unknown reasons which led to Allegra having a half-human child. While this tale is engaging and I find Allegra’s struggle a lot more compelling than Schuyler’s it’s stretched out, ultimately unanswered, of course, and feels like a push to keep people reading.
So, mixed reactions on my part here. And yet, at 6 books into the series I’m really too invested to give up now because of a little teen angst.