Thirteen

Women of the Otherworld, Book 13

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

The number-one New York Times best-selling author Kelley Armstrong delivers the novel her fans have been clamoring for: The epic finale of the Otherworld series.

It's been more than 10 years, a dozen installments, and hundreds of thousands of copies since Kelley Armstrong introduced readers to the all-too-real denizens of the Otherworld: witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons, among others. And it's all been leading to Thirteen, the final installment, the novel that brings all of these stories to a stunning conclusion.

A war is brewing - the first battle has been waged and Savannah Levine is left standing, albeit battered and bruised. She has rescued her half-brother from supernatural medical testing, but he's fighting to stay alive. The Supernatural Liberation Movement took him hostage, and they have a maniacal plan to expose the supernatural world to the unknowing.

Savannah has called upon her inner energy to summon spells with frightening strength - a strength she never knew she had - as she fights to keep her world from shattering. But it's more than a matter of supernaturals against one another - both heaven and hell have entered the war; hellhounds, genetically modified werewolves, and all forces of good and evil have joined the fray.

Uniting Savannah with Adam, Paige, Lucas, Jaime, Hope, and other lost-but-not-forgotten characters in one epic battle, Thirteen is a grand, crowd-pleasing closer for Armstrong's legions of fans.

©2012 Kelley Armstrong (P)2012 Penguin Audio

Love it!!!

What did you love best about Thirteen?

I love the adventure and the author's view of the magic world.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes.

Any additional comments?

Great story.

more please

can't wait for more.story......love love love the characters. kelley your the bomb. I'm a truck driver. keeps me sane...thankyou

Fantastic Women

If you have read the previous books in this series, you will really love this book. All the characters from previous books are involved in the story line. Never boring, constant drama, great end stories for most of the characters.

Ridiculous storyline and character focus

This last book in the series was so disappointing and confusing. I only finished it because it’s the last book but it was so hard to continue. The writing was so bad and the storyline so confusing and ridiculous it’s hard to understand what happened with the author. It’s as though she just HAD to focus Savanah the last three books and unfortunately Savanah is a very weak character. She is 21 and acts like it throughout, making awful immature decisions and yet all of our usual strong characters from previous books defer to her throughout and continually act like she has to be involved (her and Adam) because why (?) they have shown they can handle everything? Disaster after disaster, Savanah has no powers and Adam is fairly useless in a fight but let’s keep sending them into buildings alone while Clay and Elana stay outside (ppl die…weird) or send them to every location where there is a known crisis because…they are so powerful and no one else obviously can handle the problems. (Ugh) Again..Savanah has no powers.

So so bad. Ridiculous and bad. The world as we know it is coming to an end and the whole Otherworldly team must allow Savanah and Adam to accomplish absolutely nothing and cause more problems.

Also, the main characters fall over and over again for ppl fooling them into dangerous situations. Fool me once… not in this book.

Such a Shame

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A plot that relied on something other than guts and gore. Now to put this in some context, I have read every single other book, story, and novella written by Kelley Armstrong, so this very negative review is from a big fan. I know she does not shy away from violence, but in this book that was all there was. It's like there were just a few scenes between blood and guts to get from one needlessly PROLONGED scene of graphic violence to the next, like porn that tries to have a story line. I could not even finish this one.

What character would you cut from Thirteen?

It's hard to say because the characters were very unimportant in this book: It was all about the violence. The one bright light was Eve. If Armstrong had been able to get away from her fascination with describing eviscerations in detail to develop characters more, the re-corporalized Eve would have been great.

Any additional comments?

Just because I have read every other book in the series, I will probably get this one in used paperback so that I can skip through the probable 3/4 of the book that does not involve plot. I seems a shame to end such a fantastic series on such a low note. It's hard to believe Armstrong even wrote this one.

Again with the crappy narration.

Woman from Toronto with a southern drawl. No more need be said. Three more words.

weak story ending

alot of building up to a very uneventful ending. the author writes and includes alot side stories into then never fully closing it out