Jennasis's Reviews > Whispers of the Dead

Blatant plagiarism of author Ilona Andrews

So all throughout the first 40% of the book I kept making connections to very similar situations and characters to the Kate Daniels series. Like, very similar. I love that series, so I just told myself to try not to let it bother me, but after the 40% everything just became SO blatant that I couldn’t ignore anymore. This book is about 60 to 70% of the same scenes/situations that have happened in Ilona Andrews books. I’ll only point out the more blatant similarities, but rest assured there are SO MANY MORE.

Dangerous Dave is Jim, to a T: pack enforcer that’s a friend of the fmc, but is gruff and an hardass and always puts the pack first no matter their years of working together.

Norbert is Dr. Doolittle: The first time Norbert and Cora meet is scene for scene the first time Kate wakes up in Doolittle's hospital. Its like she just took that whole interaction, rewrote it and added her characters names and slapped it in her book. See if you can tell if this is a scene from kate daniles or cora roberts:
The main character wakes up to the shifter pack’s doctor, he has a deep southern accent and a strange fondness for Honey. She asked “how did I get here” and the MMC replies from the door, “I carried you.” The doctor reports that the MMC had multiple broken bones and burns while doing so. The FMC Calls the MMC “his Majesty”. The dr calls the FMC a “stubborn female.” (Even though in this story the FMC has given the doctor no pushback whatsoever and has literally just met him??? he has no reason to think that she’s a stubborn…. Unless he is copy pasted from another book series, perhaps????)

FMC runs a bed-and-breakfast for supernaturals that’s magical. The magic wards are a mix of the innkeeper series and Kate Daniels series mechanics: connected to the caster, chimes when someone crosses a barrier and pounding headaches when they are trying to be breached. Extremely similar descriptors.

A building falls on the FMC and MMC and puts them into compromising positions in order for them to become closer. Just like with Nevada and Rogan from another Ilona Andrews book! Also, copying mad rogans nick name of “the scourge of Mexico” and calling the MMC “the terror of Tennessee”

It goes without saying that the MMC is supposed to be Curran. But he’s a pale imitation, and is almost instantly worried about and VERY flirty with the female main character. Relationship building is happening fast, even though they “don’t like eachother” the FMC keeps doing that dumb fucking thing where she opens up far too quickly and goes “oops I said too much” here is one instance of this, she has known this man for a day:

“When you’ve already lived your worst nightmare and survived, nothing much fazes you.” If I could move, I would slap myself. Too much information, Cora.”

Here’s her trying to withhold information from the MMC:

“He wants me to invite him into my home next time he comes knocking.” Oops, please don’t pick up on those two words. “Next time?” Damn it.

See what we are working with here?

The blatant copy of Doolittle was what really pissed me off though. I mean why copy his tiny idiosyncrasies and personality traits??? You couldn’t be at least a little original? DNF