Van Helsing Sword of Heaven

I was really disappointed in this book. I have never liked heroes or heroines who seemed to get hy on luck rather then strategy.Liesel Van Helsing is supposed to be a brilliant strategist, fighter and inventor. In this book is she comes across as an arrogant, superior and condescending. Nothing I want in a hero. She jumps into everything recklessly to every situation and loses more fight than she wins and usually needs someone else to save her.Olthis is the second book I have read where there has been a pointless death of a support character who came across as more likability than the main character. Also in the last book Liesel left a vampire alive for information that is also forgotten.I am really disappointed in the way the characters direction has gone. Their does not seem to be anything of the original character. No inventions, no strategy, getting by on dumb luck and the fact that the main bad guys would rather turn you than kill you. I hope the next book is better. The best thing I liked about this book is the cover gallery that contains the A, B, C and D full page covers at the end.

The high point here is that we are in India, so we have unusual evil spirits, (that Baital for instance), and we get a travelogue and a few words in Hindi. I appreciated the novelty and the effort.But the story, (fight the big bad, constantly monologuing, vampirish guy to find an ancient magical weapon), is pretty old school. Lots of zombies. Liesel Van Helsing is a buxom adventurer in the fairly standard Zenescope style. Dialogue is tuff girl snarky. The drawing is bright and colorful, with crisp enough lines and clear action scenes, but oddly expressionless characters.So, this was perfectly unobjectionable, but light and skimmable. Not a favorite.(Please note that I received a free advance will-self-destruct-in-x-days Adobe Digital copy of this book without a review requirement, or any influence regarding review content should I choose to post a review. Apart from that I have no connection at all to either the author or the publisher of this book.)

What a rubbish story and illustrations. This is a kiddies book and a boring story