Review: Other by Karen Kincy

Jun 26, 2010 by shanyn

Title: Other
Paperback, 336 pages
Author: Karen Kincy
Publisher: Flux
Publication Date: July 1, 2010
Source: Publisher
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Book Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she’s Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don’t exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn’t bad enough, Gwen’s on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she’s scared he’ll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves.

When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen’s home as their new territory, the tensions in Klikamuks escalate-into murder. It soon becomes clear a serial killer is methodically slaying Others. The police turn a blind eye, leaving Gwen to find the killer before the killer finds her. As she hunts for clues, she uncovers more Others living nearby than she ever expected. Like Tavian, a sexy Japanese fox-spirit who rivals Zack and challenges her to embrace her Otherness. Gwen must struggle with her own conflicted identity, learn who she can trust, and-most importantly-stay alive.

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Review:
Unfortunately, the pacing of events was a little slow for me. Only towards the last half to last quarter of the book did I get the action that I was expecting – tracking down suspects, finding new Others. The first half was mainly spent with our main character while she wished that she wasn’t an Other – which certainly is important to her, it just didn’t grab me in as much as I wanted it to.

The author does create a unique world, and I had to keep reminding myself that the ‘humans’ were aware that ‘others’ existed. I think it would be a lot of fun to read paranormal books based on dryads or some of the other creatures Kincy had playing main roles in her novel.

Overall, Other was okay. The ending was quite good, though a few things solved too easily. If you’re into paranormal and want to meet a few new characters, I think you’d really enjoy this book.

Unrelated to the review, I work at a University and had this book on a desk and was scorned by one of the incoming freshmen for reading Twilight. I explained that it wasn’t Twilight, but I guess the cover gives off a Twilight-y feel to 18 year old males. There are vampires and werewolves, but it’s not nearly the same. Silly boy!

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