Cherry Bomb (A Siobhan Quinn Novel)

In the final Siobhan Quinn novel, our favorite Twice-Damned Twice-Cursed werepire has traveled far and wide from Providence and is now inhabiting the Rotten Apple when one fateful night she meets another femme fatale in the form of Selwyn Throckmorton, and thus Quinn finds herself in the midst of another crazy occult caper involving a power struggle amid the arcane and monstrous. As with every Quinn novel there is fast-paced action, acid-tinged wit, well-drawn creepy characters and a dangerously enthralling artifact which manages to find itself in Quinn's possession. As both a finale of Quinn's series and for loyal readers of CRK there are a lot of callbacks and easter eggs and it's an enjoyable read which is also tinged with sadness - not that Quinn wants our pity, mind you. She'd rather eat dirt (which she probably has when the Beast comes out to play).Now I eagerly await the audiobook version starring the amazing Amber Benson.

It's over! NOOOOO! I love Siobhan Quinn; I love the tone of this narrative. The third book is great. But you can tell that the author is bored with her own creation--or for some reason not satisfied and just wants to end it. The narrative ends too short. More things need to be explained. And as a curative for the other urban fantasy that is published way too much, we NEED Siobhan Quinn. Mercedes Thompson and Georgina Kincaid approach the level of danger and nastiness that you find in Siobhan Quin, but they don't quite make it. But I want something more action packed than the most awesome War for the Oaks or Sunshine. Siobhan Quin is that--a female answer to--and not to say mimic of, because she is NOT that--Harry Dresden.

In New York City, Siobhan Quinn, half-vampire, half-werewolf, falls in love with a beautiful young woman who trades in supernatural artifacts and who has made terrible enemies.Kiernan began this series a few years ago when her contempt for the degeneration of urban fantasy into a subgenre of paranormal romance boiled over. She fired back by creating a series heroine -- anti-heroine, rather -- designed to surprise and repulse admirers of Anita and Rachel and Sookie. Her creation, Siobhan Quinn, was foul-mouthed, cruel, emotionally detached, amoral, uninterested in romance. She told her stories in first person but was proudly semi-literate and mocked the reader by making clear her unreliability as a narrator and her contempt for linear storytelling. It was a good joke but it began to wear thin towards the end of the second volume.Here, in what Kiernan says will be the last in novel in the series, the author does something different and something better. Instead of mocking what other writers have done with the genre, she provides instead an example of what they should have done with it. She brings back the ghouls and the noir she used in "Daughter of Hounds" and mixes them with a story line that she used in two of her best Martian stories, "Bradbury Weather" and "Slouching towards the House of Glass Coffins," i.e., a heroine on a doomed quest to save her beloved. More importantly, she dumps Quinn's bad writer pose and replaces it with some of the best descriptive writing she has done in a novel in ages. Everything she writes about the ghoul dens, in particular, is classic, horrific, unforgettable.And will she really stop writing Quinn novels now that she has learned to do them well? Probably, for she usually means what she says. I hope she changes her mind.

This may be the first time I have not given a book by CRK five stars. This was the last of a three book deal, an experiment which the author feels failed. With this book, I have to agree. It is disjointed, the lead character's personality seems to have changed, and not for the better. The plot is not the clearest, and at times, is hard to follow.As I read it, I felt like my favorite author was writing with the attitude of "I have better things to do." It seemed like she just wanted to get it done, meet the terms of the contract, and be done with it.The sad thing for me, is that when, as a reader, I first me this character in, "Blood Oranges," I thought she had the potential to be a great ongoing character, and gave CRK an outlet for her very dark and snarky humor. I guess it was just not to be.

This did not seem as good as most of her previous work. Maybe it was just too short, not complicated enough, needed more ghouls, but I didn't get as sucked in as I do with most of her writings. And I waited soooooo long for something new. Guess I will have to wait longer.

I know Caitlin wasn't thrilled to write the Siobhan novels but damn they are just awesome fun. I love the universe she has created and it's a blast to see the world through her eyes. If you are a fan, don't hesitate to check it out and look for the easter eggs that refer to her other characters.

Well written but relentlessly unpleasant. The first two books were redeemed by the main character's efforts to understand the way her traumatic past had affected her values and personality. In this book she doesn't give a s***; there's no redeeming humanity to her. I didn't finish.

I love these books! So funny, they make me laugh.

Good book