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Chloe Neill

Author of Some Girls Bite

47+ Works 10,579 Members 757 Reviews 33 Favorited

About the Author

Chloe Neill writes the Chicagoland Vampires series and the Dark Elite series. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. (Bowker Author Biography)

Series

Works by Chloe Neill

Some Girls Bite (2009) — Author — 1,638 copies
Friday Night Bites (2009) 1,113 copies
Twice Bitten (2010) 959 copies
Hard Bitten (2011) 832 copies
Drink Deep (2011) 698 copies
Biting Cold (2012) — Author — 601 copies
Firespell (2010) 548 copies
House Rules (2013) — Author — 508 copies
Biting Bad (2013) — Author — 412 copies
Wild Things (2014) 374 copies
Blood Games (2014) 341 copies
Dark Debt (2015) 279 copies
Hexbound (2011) 256 copies
The Veil (2015) 245 copies
Midnight Marked (2016) 234 copies

Associated Works

Heroic Hearts (2022) — Contributor — 165 copies
Kicking It: All-New Tales of Murder, Magic, and Manolos (2013) — Contributor — 156 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1975-05-17
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Occupations
author
writer
Agent
Lucienne Diver (Knight Agency)

Members

Reviews

This book reminded me why I love this series so damn much :D

While Ethan and Merit are indeed front and center, there is so much story woven in the tapestry that surrounds them. By now we have gotten to know pretty much all major players, but it's fun learning more about them every installment.

Pacing and flow were great. There is a lot of action, but somehow it doesn't feel that way. You just roll with it, we're used to Merit always being in the thick of it, so yeah :)

The book itself is well written with no (noticeable) errors and yes, there is sex described.

All in all, I feel that writing a longer review is pretty much impossible... it's just such a solid series and everything has already been said before :D
One thing though... really looking forward to his marriage proposal when that time comes.
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Nemerith | 28 other reviews | Oct 30, 2023 |
Dropped near the end after the story managed to mess up every single plot point either with shallow platitudes or beaten clicheés.
This has all the bad characteristics of typical lazy YA apart from the main characters physical age.
 
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omission | 10 other reviews | Oct 19, 2023 |
A great setup, an interesting premise, an intriguing world, and a sub-par execution full of plot holes and contradictions.

I wanted to love this story because it managed to paint a very compelling not quite post-apocalyptic outline of a world suddenly confronted with a gritty kind of magic and a new, hard reality.

But the author does nothing with it. The bad guys are two-dimensional cardboard cutouts. The story is entirely based on blatant and unreasonable racism without any kind of interesting nuance.
The world, which initially seems very interesting, turns out to be flawed and full of contradictions. Facts about the world are just made up on the spot without any consideration of how they contradict other things to a frustrating degree. It's not just one or two contradictions that were hard to solve or simply overlooked. No care whatsoever has been taken to even attempt to do consistent world-building. It's vaguely post-apocalyptic for the atmosphere but everything beyond that is just made up on the fly.

I couldn't have come up with a more uninspired and run-of-the-mill plot if I tried.

It's just shallow in every aspect.

I listened to 9 out of 10 hours of the audiobook before dropping it and there is no indication anything even vaguely interesting is on the horizon beyond a textbook boring climax.
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omission | 27 other reviews | Oct 19, 2023 |
This entire book is a one to one carbon copy of the first one including all the same bullshit the first was littered with and it gets even worse than the first one. There is no improvement, no character development, nothing. It just repeats a formula for success.
I truly have no idea why this series got so incredibly popular.
 
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omission | 64 other reviews | Oct 19, 2023 |

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Statistics

Works
47
Also by
2
Members
10,579
Popularity
#2,246
Rating
3.9
Reviews
757
ISBNs
313
Languages
5
Favorited
33
Touchstones
71

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