I enjoyed this series and am glad I finished the Hellequin set and am now preparing to start on the Avalon Chronicles. I prefer to read series in whicI enjoyed this series and am glad I finished the Hellequin set and am now preparing to start on the Avalon Chronicles. I prefer to read series in which all the books have been released as I read too many books on a yearly basis to try and keep up with everything. With that being said, I think reading a series of 7 was a bit much in one go (I did take a brief break and read another book) but basically it was all this series which got a little jaded.
Nate Garrett is a phenomenal character, and I liked his alter Erebus even more, but it was just a little beyond belief that he could survive everything thrown at him throughout the series without even losing a tooth. Yes, he's a sorcerer and has long as he has access to his magic it will heal him, but the numerous beatings that he took when he didn't have access without more than broken/cracked ribs or a dislocated shoulder was a bit much to swallow. In many of the books you are reading stories in two timelines which some readers dislike but in this case it was a way to learn more about Nate's backstory without devoting one or more books to his history. Even with the backstory there are long stretches of time that we have no idea what he doing, where he was, if he was Nate or Hellequin. It would have been nice to know more about why he decided to break with Avalon and Merlin, but the reasons given were enough to satisfy most readers.
I love the mixture of all the old Greek gods of Olympus, the Titans and the addition of other pantheons and not knowing until the last books who was really behind everything although you knew that the end goal was the enslavement of humanity. The mixture of good guys and evil spread among all the different factions was also good as was the reversal of one character towards the end of the series and the portrayal of one of the gods that was done in a way unlike any other series I have read. I liked how the author explained how the character that had a reversal had been a prisoner and tortured for many years until they broke which the though would give them a worse version of Hellequin that they could use for their nefarious plans.
I believe the Avalon Chronicles pick up with different characters that will be important in the upcoming rebellion. It will be nice to add new characters and learn their stories as they all attempt to find the allies that they will need to defeat those who want them dead and humanity under their heel.
(Note: I did not do a review for each individual book, but one for the series as a whole. Overall, all the books were good and I rated them all 4 Stars)....more
This is Urban Fantasy at its best; there are many types of sups in the book and this makes for an excellent start to this series. The book isn’t perfeThis is Urban Fantasy at its best; there are many types of sups in the book and this makes for an excellent start to this series. The book isn’t perfect, there’s some monotonous dialogue but, IMHO no writer is completely perfect and the story and originality makes up for mistakes that take nothing away from the enjoyment of the story itself. I received this as one of my Prime books and it lingered on my shelf for months, but I’m glad because once I read it I only had a couple of weeks to wait until book 2 was released (now I’m impatiently waiting for the next one).
This book has several main characters; Tasia a witch with powers that the vampires thought they had destroyed years ago. She is in hiding, working two dead-end jobs and flying under the radar a level two wizard where she uses her "low-level" abilitied to make extra money doing mainly magical cleaning jobs.
Raoul, the brooding, enigmatic young Alpha of the local pack who offers Tasia his protection (despite his hatred of witches) after she recues Hawk, a young dual shifter who is a pack member. Duncan is Raoul’s second who shares the secret of Raoul’s past. These are just a few of the wonderful characters that make up this saga.
Tasia has been hiding her abilities for so long, moving to different cities while trying to hide in plain sight; she knew she was taking a risk when she rescued Hawk but thought it was relatively a small one. When the two weres that were holding Hawk come after her she manages to survive using abilities she isn’t suppose to possess, this puts her in danger from the people who have been searching for her and she has no choice but to accept the offer of protection the pack has offered.
While Tasia has accepted the pack’s protection she does not tell them the extent of her abilities; even after Raoul sees evidence that she killed vampires without using the usual methods he’s not sure how she did it but he helps to cover it up by staking them. He knows she hiding things, which adds to his innate distrust of her because she is a witch but he feels obligated to offer her the protection of the pack until she turns on them which he fully expects her to do.
Since I don’t want to give any more away I’ll stop now but I urge you to read this book!
5/5 STARS: **I read this novel using a selection from my Amazon Prime First Reads; the review reflects my honest opinions.**...more
**spoiler alert** I believe that this is the author’s best novel since Sarum. I love multi-generational/multi-family novels like this; it is so rare t**spoiler alert** I believe that this is the author’s best novel since Sarum. I love multi-generational/multi-family novels like this; it is so rare to read books that have this length or depth and I miss these types of novels. I was hooked after I read the sample although I read a few reviews that complained that the book was primarily based on WASPS and the other ethnic groups usually disappeared a few pages after they were introduced but they either didn’t pay attention or couldn’t keep up with the changes when the book jumped several years.
(SPOILERS) For example, the descendants of Quash did not disappear; his son Hudson was still with the Master family after he was rescued by Clara and her husband he had a son he named Hudson; Young Hudson pretended to be John Master’s slave to avoid being arrested in 1712 for a crime he did not commit. He stayed with them as a freeman and was paid a fair wage. He married Ruth a slave and they had a daughter Hannah followed by a son Solomon; John Master told Solomon that he could buy Ruth and the children outright or he’d set them all free when the children turned 25. As Solomon became a man he began getting into trouble; in 1777 Hudson reminded John of his promise but asked him to “keep him as a slave because he’s been keeping some bad company.” Solomon had also threatened to join the Loyalists when he got his freedom and when he was told that he needed to wait he threatened to run away and join the British Army who had promised the slaves freedom if they would fight. When he told John and that he “was afraid he’d get into all sorts if trouble he was free” John suggested that they send him to serve on the new privateer he owned that was ready to sail and as soon as the war was over he’d be free. Hudson thought this was the solution and agreed. In 1779 Solomon’s ship was heading home aboard a French ship they had captured, they were at the mouth of the Chesapeake when they spotted a Patriot pirate ship flying the Stars and Stripes. After being captured, Solomon told the captain that he was the slave of Patriot Captain James Master who was serving General George Washington and been forced upon the ship to keep him from “joinin” Captain Master and that if he would make inquiries of him he’d confirm the story. The pirate said he didn’t know Master and he thought he had ran away “to join those damn British to get your freedom.” “Far as I’m concerned you’re a lyin’, thievin’ treacherous slave that needs a whippin’.” “I reckon I ain’t got to whip you. No, I believe I’m going to lie instead. I’m goin’ to say that you’ve never been whipped because you are the most humble, obedient, hard-workin’, God fearin’ nigger that ever walked the face of the earth. Because, you lyin’ Loyalist, SOB runaway I’m going to sell you.” John searched for years but they never heard what had happened to Solomon and several years later Hannah and Ruth died from a fever they had contracted. We don’t read any more about Hudson’s descendants until the 1863 section when his great-great grandson arrives in New York. (END SPOILERS)
The main storyline is about the Master family, their descendants and others that had personal dealings with family; readers will need to pay attention when new characters are introduced to see how they are connected to the original family. Therefore, some reviewers are critical of the characters. However, the only way that any author could give the depth that these readers want, he would have to write multiple novels of roughly the same length using the same style that he incorporated here (More on this later). Readers didn’t make the same complaint in 1987 when he published Sarum and I feel that in our effort to be politically correct we’ve gone too far and now criticize anything that anyone could possible object to. There’s a right way, which I support, however it’s getting to the point where you cannot write or say anything even if it is the correct expression for the time; the spoiler above is an example.
This novel, like Rutherfurd’s previous works required extensive research from the maps from the 19th and 20th centuries to the historical events that are included in the novel. In the preface he states there was very little necessity to event thing in regards to historical events; he may have simplified a complex historical event or detail, but he did not mean to misrepresent any historical record. He then explains those issues that readers may have because of the way he interoperated events, details or people. The novel accurately covers many historical characters and I learned something that I did not know about Lincoln’s voice. (SPOILER) When Frank Master goes to listen to a speech he made in New York in 1860 his voice his described as “a sound so high, so harsh and so unpleasing that it grated upon the ear and made the hearer wish he’d stop.” During the speech he explained why his opponents were wrong in their approval of the Dred Scott decision. “His rhetorical genius lay in being pain staking. Slowly, deliberately, giving the date, naming the Founding Fathers concerned and explaining the circumstances of the case, Lincoln picked apart each vote. “He made no other claim. He just showed, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the Congress had the right to decide the issue. He held his audience’s attention completely. They were enraptured. As he warmed to his theme a strange transformation seemed to take place in the speaker. Most remarkable of all, Fran suddenly realized that he no longer noticed Lincoln’s voice. The man before him possessed a remarkable authority.” He points out issues with the Emancipation Proclamation that is not covered until college, if then and how Lincoln really felt about the slaves (“If I could save the Union without freeing a single slave, I’d do it.”) and what he wanted done with the slaves once they were free. (Location 8005 – 8018, Kindle Voyage Gen. 7). As well as he covers Lincolns appeal to many, his opinions and intentions he did not cover everything. One of the main issues was money; many landowners of the South were very wealthy. Their large plantations with crops of cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, etc., were maintained by cheap slave labor. In most cases these landowners spent little money to feed, house and clothe their chattel and this was more than made up by the what they grew and sold. There was another valuable commodity that the south sold; slaves. It was now illegal to bring in new slaves from Africa, but the south needed more slaves. There were plantation owners and others that bred the slaves they owned to sell them. While it took time and a little money for a slave to reach an age where they could be trained in a trade that was needed on a plantation or to be old and strong enough to be considered a “valuable” field hand, the income that was generated could exceed by double, triple or more than they could get for your crops. Lincoln had no intention of losing the revenues generated from the South. If the Southern states were allowed succeed, there were additional problems that could possibly occur. It could set a precedent for any state or territory that had not decided if they could choose to allow slavery, aligning themselves with the Confederate States while the others would become part of the Union. Those that had money could have others who shared your views acquire vast quantiles of land in these undecided areas. The views of these landowners would determine what flag would represent them. If there were more small landowners that larger ones they could have acted as the boys of Tammany Hall in New York did and guaranteed that the status quo would be maintained. This would further divide the Union, resulting in more loss of revenues, land, citizens and other resources. It could be possible for Pro or Anti areas to be surrounded by areas that had chosen differently. It would no longer be a division between the North and South, instead it would be Pro or Anti or Slave or Free. Hypothetically, this could lead to endless conflicts one local, national or continational levels as the country becomes more divided. The Congress of the Union would not have any right to make any decision regarding the states or territories in the Confederate States. However, history has shown us several occasions where Lincoln showed that he had no problem ignoring habeas corpus when it suited his purposes so perhaps this would not have stopped him from doing what he wanted to protect the Union and it is feasible that if the conflict had continued for several years anyone that came after him would have had the same views and believe in doing whatever was necessary to preserve the Union.
(Small Spoiler & Opinion): I wish that he had included a few paragraphs on the opposites views of the characters about impeaching Lincoln before he was assassinated and what they thought of how Reconstruction should be dealt with. There is only a brief mention of the boys at Tammany Hall approving of the Democratic Andrew Johnson. Arguments for the impeachment could be: Overstepping executive powers (despite Republican control of the House and Senate), overpassing the USC Amendments and Laws, and his blockade of southern ports because a blockade is only allowed when a war is declared and Lincoln said it was not a war but a rebellion. It’s ironic that US teaches students through high school that he was one of our greatest presidents, while Andrew Johnson a Democrat who tried to follow some of Lincoln’s views for Reconstruction was impeached, but not convicted for violation of the Tenure of Office Act. The wording if the act was murky and it was unclear if his removal of the Secretary of War, Stanton was a violation of the law. The law applied to current office holders, but it limited the protection to one month after a new President took office. This act was declared unconstitutional and repealed in 1887. The main reason the Republican held Congress was incensed that he refused to allow punitive damages against the south as Lincoln had also wanted.
Overall, I feel that the book has more pros than cons and that anyone who enjoys this type of historical fiction will find this enjoyable, however, it could have been better. I feel that the author should have made this at least a duology, the 17th century was excellent as was most of the 18th. However, there needed to be more here. Abigail was a main part of the story, we are told she married and was with child, but then the story ends; there’s not further mention of her or any of her children even though they would have been cousins to the Masters’, the central family in the book. Then after the Civil War, there’s very little mention of the Reconstruction Era (I feel like the end of the war was a good place to end the first book and pick up the story beginning with the Reconstruction). The 19th and 20th centuries, especially after the middle of the 20th century was really rushed. While, the author covers Tammany Hall, except for a brief mention of one of the characters way of making a living there is no other mention of the multiple Mafia families that controlled virtually everything in NY during the 20th century. There’s also nothing about the Spanish American War, the Influenza epidemic that killed millions, WW1, and just a brief mention about WW2. It’s also in this area that I noticed the few mistakes in the novel, extra words, missing words and referring to one character by the wrong name. It feels like the author was just rushing to complete the novel, perhaps because of a deadline. It’s almost certain that the publishers insisted on changes that may have made the book shorter than the author intended. The errors, especially those with the character’s name should have been caught by a proofreader, the name wouldn’t have been changed due to an editing so this was a mistake that was mistake that was missed from the first and never caught when any changes were made. While this was a lengthy novel, I feel that it would have been much better if he had written two novels with the same length or slightly shorter so it wouldn’t have felt so rushed. This would have allowed the author to add more characters to create an ethnic mosaic that would show the cultural diversity and provide more complete and accurate account of the subject. As popular as this author is and as well as his books sell the publishers would have probably allowed this as they did with the Irish Saga.
The author has written a beautiful tale of rebirth through reincarnation for all creatures, a cycle where the souls are protected by the spirit shieldThe author has written a beautiful tale of rebirth through reincarnation for all creatures, a cycle where the souls are protected by the spirit shields. Cayden and Avery are the spirit shields and now recall most of their past and why they chose to become human.
Avery has been joined by Artio, at first as her prisoner because Artio is still focused on revenge and believes that Avery and Cayden were responsible for killing her and her lover Genii. She knows that without Avery’s assistance she will be unable to use the boxes even is she manages to decipher how to use them. As they travel toward the temple she starts to resemble the woman she once was and lose the characteristics of the bear that was used when the Flesh Clan did their ritual.
Helga has released Genii from the underworld making him human again but failing to tell him that everyone and everything he comes into contact with will rot and die. In regaining his humanity, he regains his memories of the love he and Artio shared. Not realizing the curse Helga has placed on him he goes in search of Artio.
Mordecai and Cayden have also been released from the underworld but they are still under Helga’s control through the soul fetches. Fearing that Helga will realize how much Zionia means to him he leaves her one night while everyone is asleep and puts a block on the bond they share so she cannot immediately follow. Cayden believes that the only way to win against Helga will be dying but for him their will be no chance of rebirth; his soul will not go into the well awaiting reincarnation, it will simply cease to exist.
4.75/5 **I would like to thank the author, Susan Faw for giving me a copy of this book to review in exchange for an unbiased, honest opinion.**...more
Book 2 picks up where the first book ends. Cayden has regained the throne of Cathair and secured the well of souls with Zionia by his side. Sharisha, Book 2 picks up where the first book ends. Cayden has regained the throne of Cathair and secured the well of souls with Zionia by his side. Sharisha, Avery and their father are on their way to the Primordial lands which is torn between two warring factions; the Spirit Clans and the Flesh Clans. The Flesh Clan resurrects Artio a godling sister of the twins and Helga into the body of a bear and she is out for revenge as is the deposed queen Alcinia. Helga is still planning on turning everyone into her servants or disposing of them and stopping all reincarnation of souls.
This is an amazing trilogy and the middle book has none of the slowness (which was all due to world and character building as I suspected) of the first one so those who decided to DNF this series should have given it chance.
It was okay, I read it in less than four hours and only finished it because it was because I have an ARC. The plot is formulamatic as is most of the rIt was okay, I read it in less than four hours and only finished it because it was because I have an ARC. The plot is formulamatic as is most of the romance, but every parent will recognize the struggle between the mother and daughter.
This is something that I may have liked better when I was very young. If you enjoy fantasy romance with dragon shape-shifters you'll probably like this.
2/5 STARS: I received a free digital ARC in exchange for a honest, unbiased review. I sincerely thank the author and/or publisher for providing an ARC through NetGalley,.** ...more
After the events in book one Ruxandra is determined that she will never be around humans again so that she will not kill them. She embraces the BeastAfter the events in book one Ruxandra is determined that she will never be around humans again so that she will not kill them. She embraces the Beast within her and becomes an animal in every way possible. The Beats does not know how many years have passed, just that it has many, many seasons. It has been following the game as the seasons pass, moving about and it knows that it has been in this place before but cannot remember when. One day it is very hungry and is stalking a deer; it senses that something isn'tt right but lets his hunger lead it into a trap. It is put in a cage, carried away and put into another cage.
We learn that Countess Elizabeth Bathroy has captured and as expected since she was already a monster you can be assured her motives are not altruistic. I understand that Ruxandra has spent almost 200 years living as a beast and has not developed some of the finer aspects that vampires have in popular novels. However, as a beast she has developed a keen sense of smell and cunning and I find it improbable that she cannot sense when she is being lied to and manipulated. It's possible that one person could fool her but she knows that Dorotyas hates her, she senses the fear of most everyone else and despite knowing that Kade was the person responsible for Elizabeth being able to capture and contain the beast she trusts him.
This was another fast read and now I can read the final two; no matter how book four ends I will not be continuing the series. This is a book for adults, the violence is more graphic than in the first book as is the sexual content.
2.5/5 STARS ** I read this using my Kindle Unlimited account. 2.5/5 STARS ** I read this using my Kindle Unlimited account. ...more
I read the first two books in the series using Kindle Unlimited because I had been provided with digital ARC's of books 3 & 4 and I cannot stand startI read the first two books in the series using Kindle Unlimited because I had been provided with digital ARC's of books 3 & 4 and I cannot stand starting a series without reading it from the beginning.
Ruxandra Dracula has spent most of her life in a convent but has always known that her father would come for her on her eighteenth birthday, That days has arrived and she leaves the Mother Superior, nuns and her two best friends believing that she is going home to be married to someone her father has chosen for her; she hopes that he is not too old and kind.
Her father has barely spoken to her since he arrived at the convent, they stop for a brief lunch and he still ignores her. As night arrives her orders them to stop and orders her to follow him and he tells the men that they he will return by morning and they are not to disturb him. She follows her father to a cave where five more of his men waiting in the cave, at his orders they grab her, strip her and take her further inside where she is spread out and tied to the ground inside a circle that contain a pentagram. Her orders that they verify that she is untouched and despite her pleas he refuses to tell her what is happening and why. They all start chanting in a language that she does not understand and after a time a demon (Ishtar appears. Vlad has thought that be offering her a pure sacrifice that she would be under his control and bound by circle. The demon soon shows him how foolish he is to think that she could be contained by anything a mortal could do. She asks Ruxandra if she wants to live and not understanding what would happen she says yes and she is changed into a vampire then she kills her father and the men inside the cave . Ishtar has left without telling her anything other than she is to sow chaos and fear because she cannot. She has no idea what she has become, she knows she is different but believes that she can go back to the convent. Her clothes were cut off her by the men as they prepared her for the sacrifice so she takes the clothes from one of the men and his cloak and leaves the cave thinking she can go back to where the camp is and find herself backwards. She hears the men talking and they are worried, it's been two days and nights since Vlad left and they know that they must go and look for him because something has to be wrong. Ruxandra is terrified that they will hunt her down and kill her so she takes off running away from them in the opposite direction. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that she is much faster now and she is soon hopelessly lost.
As dawn approaches she sits t watch the sun rise then she catches on fire; not knowing what she is doing she buries herself to get out of the sun. She awakens and is terrified when she realizes that she is buried and claws her way out and her clothes are ruined. She starts walking and tries to understand what has happened to her, she is determined that she will not kill anyone else, when she does she tries to kill herself but is unable to so she decides that she cannot be around people at all. She finds a place in the woods and builds a den to live in and proceeds to start catching animals to eat. This works out for a time until something terrible happens.
I really wanted to like this more than I did, but I found it too predictable. I know that Ruxandra is only 18, has been in a convent for most of her life but she is far from innocent. I liked the twist but found everything so predictable and if I didn't have the other books from Netgalley I would not continue the series., even though I read it it in less than 4 hours. This is a book for adults and younger readers should not read due to bot the violence and sexual content.
2.5/5 STARS ** I read this using my Kindle Unlimited account. ...more
I enjoy urban fantasy and southern gothic books. I liked the first books of the authors Savannah Witches and series until he went too weird and was hI enjoy urban fantasy and southern gothic books. I liked the first books of the authors Savannah Witches and series until he went too weird and was hoping that I would find that this was like the beginning of that series or maybe somewhat like Rice's Mayfair Witches series, but I was disappointed.
We start the book knowing that the witches are losing their power, yet despite that the coven has joined together to try and diver Katrina from totally destroying New Orleans. The entire coven, from the oldest witch to the youngest little Alice Marin daughter of the leader of the coven. They are unable to totally divert the storm, despite linking their powers the are too weak to do more than slightly weaken the storm. After the storm passes over Alice rushes out to save her pet cat/familiar when she is confronted by Babu John (the bogeyman) who attempts to lure her away. She tells her father who doesn't believe her and later when her oldest brother Luke commits suicide she insists that Babu John forced him to do it and her father sends her across the country to an asylum where witches who are kept. At this place they have no access to their magic, very little entertainment and if a patient manages to get released they are discouraged from interacting with the friends that may have made while there.
After ten years Alice his finally to be released because her beloved grandfather has died and her youngest brother Vincent insists that she comes home. Vincent is the only Marin child that has no magical ability and has no use for it. Upon her arrival she is reintroduced to Luke's fiancée Evangeline who is now her father's mistress and her other brother Hugo has turned to drink and drugs to combat his pain.
Upon meeting Alice again, Evangeline realizes that Alice is not losing her magic, like her she is very strong. We find out that she is related to three shape-shifter witches who are hundreds of years old and they want her to watch over Alice and help them retrieve an object that has been hidden from the world since they brought it to our shores.
My favorite character is Lisette, the daughter of Soulange Simeon a powerful probationer of voodoo and the owner of the famous French Quarter Voodoo supply store VéVé. When her mother and Alice's grandmother Laure tried to do a spell on their own that resulted in killing her mother and rendering Laure insane Lisette has been running the business but no longer believes in the magic of voodoo although she knows her mother's spirit is still with her in the store.
This book is much darker than his previous series and while this isn't necessarily detrimental I found some of the plot twists very disturbing and I believe that rest of the series will end up being much weirder than the Savannah series. Although I dislike beginning a series and not reading it in its entirety I don't think I will be following this one.
2.75/5 STARS: I received a free digital ARC in exchange for a honest, unbiased review. I sincerely thank the author and/or publisher for providing an ARC through NetGalley,.**
In this trilogy, Greg Isles has once again taken the readers on a journey through the ugly past of the South and doing it so skillfully that many readIn this trilogy, Greg Isles has once again taken the readers on a journey through the ugly past of the South and doing it so skillfully that many readers do not realize how accurate that portrayal is and that while the people and events may have been fictional things like this occurred. This is a powerful story that almost wraps up the story that began with Natchez Burning and continued with The Bone Tree and while it is a long book it is not as long as its predecessors and there's no wasted dialogues or scenes in the book.
While this wraps up this trilogy, I think that the author will revisit these characters because there are things left open with several of the characters and after so much tragedy the Cage family, especially Annie and Penn deserve to find happiness. ...more
I found this debut novel delightful, it was witty, entertaining and at times funny. The author has done an amazing job with world building on the As I found this debut novel delightful, it was witty, entertaining and at times funny. The author has done an amazing job with world building on the Astral Plane and I feel sure that it will offend some readers that will over analyze, forgetting that it is fiction that is meant to entertain us. I look forward to the sequel.
4.25/5 STARS: **This is an honest, unbiased review. I would like to thank the author and/or publisher for providing an ARC through Netgalley, all opinions are mine.** ...more
This is one of those books where you keep thinking one more chapter and then I'll stop for the night and the next thing you know the book is over and This is one of those books where you keep thinking one more chapter and then I'll stop for the night and the next thing you know the book is over and you're both happy and sad. I started this book about 2am and finished it at 4:22am. I though that since it was after 3 and it was officially now March 7, I could buy book 2 and continue this wonderful series, but alas I must wait a few more hours. (Guess I'll try to get some sleep).
I LOVED this story; the quick trips back to the late 17th century before continuing todays timeline; the story of sisters and lovers lost through time, always searching but always being kept apart. I have to admit, I wasn't surprised as to the reason that they had remained apart for centuries, it was the only way ot made since and even the hook gives a reference to that reason.
Trina is an amazing character and now that she and her sisters have reunited, with the approval of the Goddess, I can only imagine the amazing things that can happen as the series continues. As to be expected since Trina was the main focus of this book and the main character in the backstory there is much we don't know about the other two that I expect to learn as the series unfolds.
I also very happy that there wasn't a three-way love triangle or insta-love; they have loved each other for centuries and finally they have been reunited. It will be interesting to see the other two find their true loves, especially since Ms. Thawer writes the romance with such a light hand. This is so different and such a welcome change from the almost porn that is thrown at readers in place of love and romance. Please don't ruin my opinion by writing the next one using the ubiquitous “I hate you, but everyone knows that means I love you and knows we’ll end up together,” that is even more nauseating than insta-love.
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