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Summer Reign

By: John Conroe
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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Demon Accords, book 13.

Faced with writing college papers, prepping for tests, and teaching testy witches, Declan O'Carroll has enough on his plate. Not to mention the magical withdrawal of leaving his very own magical kingdom behind on Fairie. But when he and his friends are attacked from creatures out of folklore and fable, it seems the Queens of Summer and Winter aren't done with him yet. But if they're so eager to mess with Earth, maybe it's time to Earth came to them. After all, he's got some lessons to teach.

©2018 John Conroe (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

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SPOILERS ALERT - from "love these books" to "WTH?"

Let me start with this - I loved the previous books in these series (James Patric Cronin also did a fantastic job as a narrator) and gave most of them 5 stars. I also enjoyed this book until I got to chapter 14. Then it seemed as if the author, who did such a marvelous job writing previous books, decided to ask someone else - who did not know nor care about the characters (or the readers) - to write this chapter.

Now here is the summary of the scene that upset me to the point of having to write this review. Chris, Declan, and others just saved their friend from an enemy fey. Feds (as one of the other reviews mentioned, being portrayed as too stupid to live) arrive in the nick of time to harass the team. They shoot and injure Awasos and threaten Stacia. Grim orders everyone to stand down, and when Declan still keeps an eye on an agent that is ready to pull the gun on Stacia, Grim attacks Declan. He beats him near to death, while Declan does not fight back, only shields himself and Stacia, then Stacia chokes Declan out to save him. All the while, the rest of the team and the feds watch, and Omega does nothing to interfere. Oh, and when Declan comes to, Omega tells him that Declan was acting illogical, and that he agrees with Chris's actions. To add insult to an injury, Declan apologizes to Chris and others for "flipping out" (which he did not).

My fellow fans of the series, does this scenario make any sense to you? Where is Chris that, in his own words, is "not capable of hurting his friends" and thinking about Declan as "... the little brother he never had"? And why in the world would Omega, who neutralizes every threat to Declan's life, stand by calmly while Grim is attacking Declan and as Chris later said would have killed him if Stacia did not render him unconscious?

Perhaps I'm overly sensitive here, but this scene just ruined the book for me. I was so angry and upset, and most of all, I felt betrayed - on behalf of Declan and myself. There was an ugly impostor in place of a beloved character. I just wish I stopped reading/listening at book 12, where Chris was still someone I admired, and the author was still someone who could write nothing wrong.

Sorry for the long venting session, I hope it might soften the blow for the readers like me, who get a tad too emotionally attached to the characters they love.

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Downhill and dissapointed (it seems very rushed)

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So been a big fan of the series so this is a bit painful, but this was not ok.
But this is the worst book yet, by far.
It feels like a manuscript more than a story, meaning it is like reading a stats sheet of what have happened and what we should feel and know about everything and it uses the first 21 chapters just summarizing what we already know from the earlier books.
It literally force situations which makes no sense just so the characters can over-narrated everything to clearly and way to obviously tell the listener that this character has these personality traits because of this thing. (like someone needing to summarize the movie character on a “factual” based lvl; comes off wrong, forced and just annoying).

So 21 chapters of that.

Then we go over to overdramatically reactions to pointless stuff which is ONLY there to force a “ex-machina” to use later, which just makes no sense (seriously we where done with the entire “agents are utterly clueless and idioticly suicidel when dealing with the hero crew” after the chris parts like 6 books ago.
That we have well known agents act completely insane and then everyone just turning on Declan and then act all like it’s a big deal that he said “if you kill my lifepartner I will kill you”, after they already shot chris’s bear…. And then trying to make it into this big revelation is just terrible.)

Everything seems so overly explained just to use time, or tell us how the character is instead of Showing it in a natural situation (instead of specifically forced scenarios to then narrated the information to us as if we were reading of a spread sheet)..

Besides that every character has next to no personality, just reacting like how you would guess a “first layout” of ideas would tell it just to get the overview; and it is either constantly self-hatred, self-rightousness or an absolutely absurd amount of 12year old snarky arrogant and extreme pragging in a negative way.

The last 4’ish hours are worth hearing just to get the overview of the story.
The last 2 hours it’s trying to move into following the character, but again it is just used to force obvious stuff which we seen before, and which is just a repeat of exact same reactions reused in yet another narrating… the way it just forces information we already know is just terrible even here…


In short in feels more like an attempt to tell a story to someone who doesn’t know the last 40hours and trying to cramp everything in so they get everything we already know and have been stomped with so much it is just to much now.
With to little evolution to the characters, and the one thing that kept them running was the OP’ness of new talent, abilities and their usages…. This doesn’t have any of that, just ex-machina and maybe 2hour’ish of actual good story and 9hours of “meeh to bad fluff”.

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Declan was my favorite

Until this book, he's more of a door mat to his so called friends. The situation between him, and the crew was bogus.

Please switch back to Chris and Tanya, at least they don't apologize for their existence every chapter.

Declan isn't even a human being, just a computer that apologizes for everything and is soooooo understanding of why it's his fault everyone treats him like ticking timebomb. What a toxic dynamic.

Like I said, get him out of protagonist territory and shuttle him off to side character status where he belongs. He'll understand, and probably apologize for it as well.

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For the love of God, dont buy this!!

Chris now attacks Friends to prove he is the alpha male. even when they don't fight back. Stacia now backs up her alpha over her mate. Declan is now a doormat simp who will forgive the attempt on his life as it must be his fault they attacked him.
this is 3 strikes and I'm out. I regret buying this book and wished I paid attention to the reviews.

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Disappointing, just OK

I nearly gave up on this book. The only thing that stopped me was my investment in this series and the hope that other titles will improve. Declan is an interesting side character but that is all. I'm tired of him being the main character with Chris and Tanya as merely support characters. The series needs to get back to it's roots and focus on them. This book lacked a cohesive story arc interesting enough to draw me in. Also, there were some conflict points that were illogical at best. I feel like the same purposes could have been achieved in the story more logically with more work on the part of Mr. Conroe. I have enjoyed his previous books in this series, specifically the ones centered around the primary characters. This one seems like he wrote it over a long weekend to fulfill an obligation. I feel this book would have been better suited as a short story in an anthology. I hope Mr. Conroe returns to his central characters and his previous quality of story.

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Above the rest

The narration was above average and made the characters live. The story kept me wanting more and getting it. I would like to see Stacia and Declan get married and have a children. Maybe a double wedding with Barbiel doing the services. That would be the boom.

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let down a little

I've loved every book in this series until this one. This one felt like 4 or 5 different ideas for stories crammed into a summary. Nothing felt right. Please Mr. Conroe, go back to the roots of this story. James Patrick Cronin did an excellent job, as usual, with the narration.

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Its only about one character

Look you pretty much made declan in chris so its not really good or thought out using the same character development.., you even compare them all throughout the book ... super lame

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I loved this one. Declan is growing up

Declan can be a little annoying at times with his sarcasm but he is my favorite witch none the less and after a certain scene in this book when an FBI agent seems to be a threat to his lycan girlfriend and things quicky unravel, he became my favorite supernatural. (slight spoiler to follow)...

I'm officially team Declan and am going to have a hard time getting over a certain conflict that was not his fault! You will have to tell me why he had to apologize? I mean because endearing him to us even more and showing how little those around him really understand him. Seems only his peers at arcadia understand what makes generation Z supernaturals tick. This book covers a lot of ground...literally, and sets us up for more than a half a dozen plot twists that will come to head in the next book which is going to be a wild ride for sure. his mother's death, faerie, new demon threats, witch circle betrayal, demidova corp working relationship, arcadia, omega, the FBI and Declan's growing power in the eyes of the world. Thank God for Stacia!

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Performance is outstanding as always

I felt the story was weak. Maybe that's just me , I do not care for the witch kid and super computer... kinda been hoping they would get killed off... I really enjoy the Chris and Tonya dynamic, it's why I started the series in the first place... but if this whole witch kid only line keeps up... I suppose I'm done... sad really, this world has so much potential.

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