AUTHOR: V.J. Chambers
RATING: 1 STAR
PUBLISHED: 2009 - V.J. Chambers
SERIES: Yes; Complete Trilogy
Breathless by V.J. Chambers (2009-Book one of the Jason & Azazel Trilogy) Jason races into Azazel's life--sweaty, tortured, and hunted by covert forces. Even though her football-player boyfriend doesn't like it, Azazel is drawn to Jason. He's so complicated. He gets in fistfights, but always wins them--efficiently and thoroughly. He reads Plato and argues with their AP teacher. But he's also quiet and serious, haunted by a past he won't talk about. Azazel feels obsessed. She can't let anything get in the way of finding out Jason's secrets, not even her boyfriend, her friends, or her parents. Most importantly, no matter how dangerous Jason claims it is for her to be near him, she can't let him leave. As menace begins to surface from even the most trusted and familiar places, Azazel finds herself flung into a whirlwind of sinister motives and clandestine proceedings. Though Azazel evades each escalating danger, her feelings for Jason may prove to be the greatest danger of all. Purchase on Amazon Kindle
Trembling by V.J. Chambers (2009-Book two of the Jason & Azazel Trilogy) Lilith's back, and she's got her eye on Jason. Jason doesn't think Azazel's new best friend Jude is really gay. Someone put a bell, engraved with a picture of the sun rising over water, in Azazel's purse. Azazel's worried, but Jason thinks she's paranoid. Jason and Azazel might be at the beach, but the clouds are rolling in. . . Purchase on Amazon Kindle
MY OVERALL REVIEW: ****THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS, BUT IT ALSO GIVES LIGHT TO THE TRUE SUBJECT OF THIS TRILOGY...I WISH I WOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT THIS TRILOGY WAS REALLY ABOUT BEFORE I STARTED IT…SO CONTINUE PAST THIS POINT WITH CAUTION!!****Tortured by V.J. Chambers (2009-Book three of the Jason & Azazel Trilogy) Since she arrived in Italy, Azazel hasn't been able to stop having nightmares. Sometimes her boyfriend Jason is covered in blood, grinning at her like a demon. Sometimes there is a gun in her hand, and she's shooting the people she loves the most. The only way to stop the dreams is to drown them in liquor. Azazel can hardly concentrate on anything else. Not the library located in the Sol Solis School. Not the secrets about Jason's origins they need to discover there. Not the prom. Not the fact that she can't have orgasms. Azazel feels like black water is closing over her head. And she doesn't know if she can breathe anymore.Purchase on Amazon Kindle
A crazy town full of Satanists who want to rape and kill innocent people, the "Messiah" who happens to be killing machine and satanic "hippies" who conceive the child of the Devil...this trilogy wasn't for me!!
Breathless, Trembling & Tortured by V.J. Chambers missed the mark in my book. Breathless, the first in the trilogy, is the best of the three books (and that's not saying much). By the beginning of the second book in the series, Trembling, I desperately wanted to turn off my Kindle and be done with it, but I stuck it out until the end (partly because I am sort of OCD and I HATE to leave things unfinished). I wish I could say that after concluding this series everything came together and I saw the light, but that wasn't that case. Frankly, I didn't like what I read.
The biggest disappointment, in my opinion, was how misleading I found the book descriptions. I understand you don't want to give too much away, but based on these descriptions I expected: a love triangle, a mysterious bad boy, romance and suspense. Don’t get me wrong, this trilogy contains almost all of that, but it is more strongly based on Satanism, a secret society who have, literally, created the “Messiah” and parents who try to force their daughter (the reincarnation of the devil, of course) to participate in a satanic ritual. During this ritual, she is expected to be raped and to commit murder. Oh, those parents I mentioned ...yeah, those same parents are foster parents who have taken in numerous children over the years. What a horrible message!
I gave the Jason & Azazel trilogy 1 STAR. I think some people might get a kick out of this story; I was not one of them. If after reading my review you are still interested in this trilogy then I highly recommend you read it, but if my review created any doubt for you then I wouldn't think twice about reading this series.
2 comments:
Hey, thanks for giving my books a look.
I have struggled a good deal with the very issue you're talking about--how to explain what these books are about without giving the game away. I hope that the product description analogy of Rosemary's Baby meets The Da Vinci Code helps. Also the fact they're ranked highly in Horror: Occult. But...well...
Anyway, sorry you suffered through something you didn't like, and thanks for being honest. If you haven't already, please post this review on Amazon. I'd like my books to be read by people who will actually like them, and reviews like this help people screen things, so they aren't disappointed.
Thanks again for reading!!
(I might mention I do have some lighter fare available. My vampire novella is pure silliness, all the time. :))
Hey! Thanks for commenting. (Also, thanks for not YELLING at me, cursing me out, etc. because I am sure that is what I would have wanted to do if the roles were reversed!)
I just wanted to let you know the story of how I came to read your trilogy. The Jason & Azazel trilogy kept showing up on my “Recommended for you” list in Amazon Kindle. So I read the product description (it sounded like other books I had read and enjoyed), I read the reviews (all of which were great), then I logged into goodreads.com to see if the trilogy was completed. (I didn’t want to start an unfinished series at that time). On goodreads.com I found two things: 1) the Jason & Azazel trilogy was complete 2) in your profile picture you had on a neat “Support Indie” t-shirt. Recently, I have read a lot more Indie authors and I have really liked what I’ve read so your t-shirt (as weird as it sounds) encouraged me more. Plus, I thought your t-shirt was fun and quirky and so I even found myself thinking this trilogy might be pretty funny too. So I sat down with some popcorn (no, not really) and I dove in.
I was really enjoying Breathless before I got to the occult part. That’s when I realized (too late) the subject matter just wasn’t for me. Somehow I missed the Rosemary’s Baby description, which of course is a user error (my error). And I never look at rankings so I never saw horror: occult. Needless to say I was genuinely shocked (and somewhat horrified) when I got to the end of Breathless because I never saw it coming. That’s the reason I posted my review. I just didn’t want others to wind up in the same position I did.
Your ratings for this series are phenonemal (on goodreads.com and Amazon), so obviously it's a great series for people who enjoy occult novels. I just hate that I had to had to find out that I really don't like occult novels with your series! Sorry!
Thanks for you feedback!
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