Dodging Calamities by Erin R. FlynnMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Fighting The Good Fight
I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
I really enjoyed this book. As usual it was filled with mayhem, angst and busting the bad guys. There is a LOT of plot happening, with alliances being made and poor Tamsin facing down all sorts of conspiracies and attempts on capturing her and her assets. At the same time as finishing her high school certification and attending her college classes she is sneaking around breaking out enslaved hobgoblins.
Tamsin is still dealing with her guys, they keep letting her down, or climbing back into her heart and then letting her down. I honestly don’t know why she bothers with them sometimes, even if they do love her, they are completely hopeless a lot of the time.
One thing I really liked about this book is that Tamsin uses her human contacts and knowledge of the human world in order to get one up on the supes. She uses their prejudices against them. I like that Tamsin doesn’t defeat everyone single handed. She is very powerful but it useless without people to train her and support her. She cannot stand alone against the entire supernatural world and her allies are very important to the story. It’s not just her overpowering all her enemies to get what she wants, she has to be clever and work hard and be able to work as part of a team.
There is a lot in this book about the way supes treat females. This is a recurring theme within this series, but it seems much more prominent in this book in particular. Tamsin is single handedly trying to bring the supernatural world out of the dark ages and encourage women to embrace feminism. There are quite a lot of articulate arguments and reasoning from her to the male supernaturals she encounters about why sexism is rife and good men don’t seem to see it.
I have two little niggles about these books and they are the same for all of them. Firstly, there are often really obvious typos or words missing here and there. I think this is partly because the author has a really really tight publishing schedule and this means that some things get missed. Secondly, when her main characters get on an angry rant, they all sound the same, across all of the books, and series. They use the same sort of slang and verbal short cuts. It’s a little thing, but it bugs me a little because her characters are not all alike, but when they rant, they could be the same character. That’s it, those are my two niggles. Everything else is addictive reading. I can’t stop and often re-read series because I enjoy the stories so much. This author is a great story teller, even if her proof reading isn’t perfect!
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