Qin's Reviews > Cam's Fortune

Cam's tale I expected much from, for it is the first time we are going to get the viewpoint of an human who is neither a more or less innocent bystander (Matthew, Salvatore) or a member of the Resistance against the Wolves (Ian, Devon, Brendan), but a spy for what remains of the government of the United States of America, in this universe a most diminished entity which had to trade off lands with the aliens it could not hope to defeat militarily. Alas, Cam's narrative voice does not provide much context beyond his need to sustain his makeshift family and next to nothing in the way of information of a general stamp; even the topic of his cybernetic, malfunctioning eye which is key to his spying, gets short shrift in quite the same way as Matthew's illness and treatment in the fourth book. For someone who apparently is military, he does not prove to be much of a match for his future mate, whom he takes prisoner early on in the story, unless the worsening quality of the writing has something to do with that very impression of dilettantism. I enjoyed the pacing of this instalment and the entertaining, if a little too prolonged and contrived, lack of communication between headstrong Cam and scheming Rick, each of them keeping their secrets very close to their chest; what killed most of my appreciation though is the excess emphasis put on the Wolf's need for sex due to his heat (frenzy would rather apply), the sheer frequency and amount of 'mating' scenes - mediocre porn is not what I buying those books for; sci-fi with an amorous flavor is -, and the utter absence of progress in the overall plotting with the Deviners, Watchers, Renegades and loyalists to Trey. This aspect of Cam's Fortune gave me the distinct feeling of being a narrative dead end, out of which Mrs Lynne does not quite know how to get. This is unfortunate this far in the series.