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99. Death's Daughter by Amber Benson...

June 24, 2009
Calliope Reaper-Jones is hiding from her family. You would, too, if you wanted to live a normal life... Especially when your family runs a huge corporation, and your dad is Death. So she puts herself under a Forgetting Charm, and lives a rather lack-luster life in NYC.

However, before she knows it, Callie is dragged from her "dream-world" and dumped into a competition for dad's job--because he's been kidnapped. Not only does she not want the job (except for the saving-her-dad thing), the competition comes in the form of Daniel, who's also the Devil's protege... Callie has to complete 3 tasks before she's deemed worthy of stepping into dad's shoes, all while being hounded by Daniel and Detective Davenport (who's investigating dad's disappearance).

Death's Daughter has a myriad of characters from various mythologies. LOVED Cerberus' pup (Callie called her Runt. Really.), and thought Kali was hilarious, if a bit overdone. It's quite the rollicking adventure, and definitely entertaining. However, Callie got on my nerves. Quite a bit. She's feisty, alright, but she's also whiny. And bratty. And clueless. And yet she manages (by the itty bitty tips of her fingernails) to cling on to her mission, and survive. All while figuring out whodunit. If it weren't for the supporting cast and humor, I'd probably have put this book down.

Thank you to Theresa from Fantasy & Sci-Fi Lovin' News & Reviews for my copy!

Title: Death's Daughter
Author: Amber Benson
ISBN-10: 0441016944
ISBN-13: 978-0441016945
Paperback: 359 pages
Publisher: Ace, 2009

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmm. I was interested by this one, but I don't like when the main character is too whiny and bratty. At least there are other fun characters!

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