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[cathygeha]

REVIEW

A Punishing Breed by DC Frost

Detective DJ Arias

This was a book I almost didn’t finish. I read the beginning to about 15% and was overloaded with characters and trying to figure out how they fit into the story and not much invested…so…I did what I often do…I read the last few chapters in the book and was still left underwhelmed so decided to read some from the middle and then went back to read from the 15% mark. And…I am glad that I did BECAUSE it all came together eventually. I never warmed to Detective Arias but did come away hoping he might improve over time.

What I liked: * That I did not give up

* Danny Mendoza: gardener at Hesperia College, life disrupted & and dreams crushed in his freshman year of college, begins to find his purpose and way forward in this book. I liked him.

* The Watcher: lives in a rundown home and is bullied by neighborhood children, survivor, resilient, loner, seems to be more than what is first perceived, intrigued by him and hope his future improves

* The plot and setting - I grew up in Eagle Rock and could identify with the location

* Evidence: rescue dog that may play a part in the future of the series

* Being able to dislike many of the characters for valid reasons and not feel badly about the murder of the first victim

* The potential for the series

* Detective DJ Arias: I am not enamored of this man though he might be a good detective…he seemed to have significant flaws that he perhaps can overcome as the series progresses

* Talbot: seems to be a positive partner to balance Arias’s rather gruff grumpy acerbic personality

* That all the threads of the murder mystery were tied up by the end of the book

What I didn’t like:

* Who and what I was meant not to like

* That more than one man was a despicable and treated women poorly, preyed on them, or were despicable in one way or another

*  That there were no women to admire or that I could relate to and hope there might be a strong woman introduced in the future

Did I like this book? Not at first but it grew on me

Would I read another book in this series? Maybe

Thank you to NetGalley and Red Hen-Canis Major for the ARC – This is my honest review.

3-4 Stars

BLURB

*Recommended in The New York Times*

A Punishing Breed, the first in a series of novels featuring Detective DJ Arias, is a murder mystery that takes place in Los Angeles, the city of angels, freeways, Santa Ana winds, and honeysuckle slithering through chain-link fences and perfuming LA's dark streets and neighborhoods. Detective Arias hunts for a murderer on a liberal arts campus that prides itself on its progressive curriculum but is rife with jealousy, racial and sexual tensions, and a hierarchy as real and destructive as a medieval fortress. DJ Arias, good at his job because he sees the worst in people, is challenged by the college community, a neighborhood recluse, and a young Latino gardener he sent to jail ten years ago for a hit-and-run accident. Through the course of his investigation, Arias will find out no one is who they appear to be. He begins to reclaim his humanity by adopting a dog he names Evidence and finding the clues to a crime born from a dark secret not contained in the past but alive in the present, which will cast destruction and murder on the denizens of the small liberal arts campus.

[starspilli]

FINALLY did some of the x men & dc crossover stuff that’s been rattling around in my head lol. & trust me i have more. i just think these ones would have interesting / funny dynamics lol

[nosyrobin]

Wally: so frosty…you make snow cones?

Jack Frost!reader: do you want to die?

Wally: Only if it’s by you gorgeous/handsome~

[comicexpertt]

I love you Emma Frost

[oldschoolfrp]

Frost giant encounter (Randy Elliott cover for Dragonlance comic No 20, cover date June 1990, DC)

[twisting-echo]

PoisonFrost! BFFs 4 life!!

I loved the energy Ivy and Frost displayed through their interest and knowledge of science in the 2015 web series of DC Super Hero Girls (gen 1). It had made them an affected team.

I nicknamed the two; "PoisonFrost."

[kingoftheu]

One of the funniest bits in comics is Captain Cold absolutely despising every other cold/snow/ice/freeze themed villain. Nothing but seething contempt for all of them. Just hates their guts. Iconic.

[dc-megatournament]

Batman VS Everyone

If Batman gets prep time, so does everyone else

[potatounicoorn]

Honestly the fact Dick Grayson was supposed to become a talon is so funny when you think about talons weakness being cold. This is the guy who went around crime fighting in a suits with no pants, v-necks deeper than god knows what and all together in suits made of thin fabrics and a dream. Cold temperatures fear this man more than he could ever care about them.

[aliennachos]

I cannot imagine what conspiracy theories sound like in the DC and marvel universes

"the kryptonians never existed, they were made up by martians to assert media control, Superman is just a martian who's not afraid of fire"

"killer Frost was made up by Hallmark to sell more jackets"

"Batman is having an affair with Bruce Wayne. I mean where does the bat mobile always come from? It all points to Wayne Manor I swear"

"they make vaccines from symbiote byproduct I've seen it first hand"

That shit must be fascinating

[onlylonelylatino]

Blue Beetle and the new Justice League by Daniel Sampere

[importantbusinessdinosaur]

Warmup - Killer Frost.

Hi I'm drawing DC ladies all month.

ko-fi | commissions open| Patreon

[anxiousnerdwritings]

*Shitty!mom!Talia al Ghul exists*

Jokerized!Twin!Reader’s other yanmoms (+multiverse yanmoms):

[ywnoart]

Batman and White Queen commissioned by the sweet @/PSIC0N on X💎🦇

[why-i-love-comics]

Titans #19 - "Cold Snap" (2025)

written by John Layman art by Serg Acuna & Matt Herms

[inksilvery]

Aaaand finally! All of them!