Review: The Undoing

The Undoing by Shelly Laurenston
My rating: 3 of 5 stars




A very good follow-up to the first Call of Crows book that gives more background on the whole clan system, delving more into the background of the Protectors who have the powers of Owls, and super library research learning skillz.

Part mystery as you spend half the book trying to figure out just what Jace's background is, but still building on the events of the first book, The Undoing has the same fast-paced feeling of The Unleashing. If you like that one you'll probably like this one. Although there are a bit of themes that get reused from the first book, eh, you liked them the first time around, right?

Jace being both a extreme introvert with the constant potential of becoming a rag monster was a really engaging character set-up. Although I have to say that the bit where she jumps out of a moving car to avoid small talk found me raising my cup of tea in a toast of solidarity. Laurenston's humor runs through the whole book like this, both tempering and sharpening emotions and moments of violence.

Oh, and there are lots of ridiculously good-looking people getting some sexy-times in if that's your thing, but, maybe more importantly there's Jace's puppy! And a library cat! Not to mention the reappearance of Brody Hawaii the world's most adorable flying pit-bull from the first book.

This book does end on a cliffhanger, but as this is a series that shouldn't be a surprise. You know what is a surprise? A flying pit-bull.


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