The Unlikeable Demon Hunter (Nava Katz, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Apr 21, 2017 Thenia rated it really liked it

Shelves: magic, reviewed, r-ab, romance, 2018, series, paranormal

This is the first book of the series introducing Nava Katz, irreverent, incorrigible mess, who somehow got the demon hunter job her twin brother had been working for all his life.

Nava is lost and direction-less, since her dream of (view spoiler), and is by no means ready to take her brother's place in the very serious demon hunter brotherhood. Nobody cares how ready or not she feels, however, and she soon finds herself ...more

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Jan 08, 2019 Katyana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: uf, alpha-hole, fantasy, sexist-bullshit

There's a lot that I liked about this series. But there's some stuff that's tough to swallow.

Firstly, I'm not sure about Rohan. He's a douche that is one of the top dogs in the Boys-Only Club of Dickweeds. Seriously, their blatant and spectacular sexism is a problem - I'll go into that further in a moment - and the fact that he's a-okay with it and happy with the status-quo is a real black mark on his character.

Secondly, Nava's family is shit. Her whole family. Mom and dad were clearly so happy There's a lot that I liked about this series. But there's some stuff that's tough to swallow.

Firstly, I'm not sure about Rohan. He's a douche that is one of the top dogs in the Boys-Only Club of Dickweeds. Seriously, their blatant and spectacular sexism is a problem - I'll go into that further in a moment - and the fact that he's a-okay with it and happy with the status-quo is a real black mark on his character.

Secondly, Nava's family is shit. Her whole family. Mom and dad were clearly so happy to have a super-special-chosen-one son that they ignored their daughter. Yes, she acts like a bit of a can't-give-a-fuck chick, but given that environment, it is utterly unsurprising. When they're not proud of a thing they do - and how can they possible be not proud of a world class dancer?? - then why try? And Ari is also a bag of shit (view spoiler) I hate his lack of self-awareness. That he can completely be blind to the fact that he's the precious favorite child, to Nava's expense. It was easy for him to be nice to her when he was the shiny golden child - it isn't hard to be nice when everyone bends over backwards for you - but man is he a shit the minute his golden crown takes a ding.

But the biggest problem is the Brotherhood. Here's the problem with making an organization like that be the core of your story, and having the badass heroine work for it: it makes me not respect her. Allowing herself to be treated that way, caving to their demands, bowing her head and accepting their sexism and manipulation ... it makes me think so incredibly less of her. She should have told them to eat a dick and left as soon as she had a handle on her powers. The fact that she busts her ass in the hopes that these sexist men might approve of her (view spoiler) ... it makes her gross. It normalizes it. And even worse, it makes all the secondary characters unpalatable. How can I like Kane, Drio, Rohan, the Rabbis, Baruch, when this is all okay with them? When they bitch that Nava wants to be treated specially without acknowledging that they have all been trained from FUCKING BIRTH, and she's forced to jump in cold? When they have her face a demon that even Ari was shocked because he's never been allowed near one that tough ... and they let it beat the shit out of her on her FIRST DAY, with next-to-zero training?

I dislike the entire secondary cast, and I don't know that it is possible to fix. Because all I want - and guys, I'm backtracking to write this review when I'm 3 books in to this series, and it is STILL all I want - is for her to leave them all.

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Mar 02, 2020 Marsha rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I tried, I really did. The story wasn't too bad, but I just couldn't get past the fact that every other thought was about how horny she was and how hot everyone else is. I'm all for some good hot'n heavy, but there has to be a story somewhere in there as well. It almost seemed like the story was a sex delivery system rather than part of the whole package. ...more

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