I liked a great deal about this book and am happy to have found a good historical romance author to read!
The psychological aspects of this romance makI liked a great deal about this book and am happy to have found a good historical romance author to read!
The psychological aspects of this romance make it compelling. The hero is bi polar in a time when there is no real treatment nor understanding of the condition. The heroine has self esteem, trust, and body issues.
They are both good people and the sexual chemistry between them is hot. This is s very sexy book.
The heroine's family is as wonderful as the hero's family is awful.
The plot of the story is well paced with lots of great secondary characters.
The history bit is very thin even with an awful peek into the treatment of the mentally ill at the time. The heroine's sister is fairly unlovely and doesn't make me want her to be the heroine of the next book nor buy in this heroine's adoration of her.
However, overall this was a very engaging read. ...more
This is an interesting entry into the Citadel and Sector Guards series. As always, the heroine's powers are cool and the hero is engaging. The romanceThis is an interesting entry into the Citadel and Sector Guards series. As always, the heroine's powers are cool and the hero is engaging. The romances starts a little later but is nicely done.
If you like ghost stories, this has a fun twist you should enjoy. ...more
I feel really lucky to have stumbled upon this book and this writer.Troll-y Yours creates a wonderful fantasy world where we get to play in the love lI feel really lucky to have stumbled upon this book and this writer.Troll-y Yours creates a wonderful fantasy world where we get to play in the love lives of centaurs, trolls, nymphs and other mythical creatures. We have good world building complete a complex history between the races and special features for each race.
Our hero is a playboy centaurs and our heroine is a pretty curvy troll with self esteem issues.
We are in the middle of a rebellion. There is a great deal of fun to be had here. I enjoyed the book so much that I bought the first book in the series before even finishing and I read this book in one lazy weekend day.
The book ends with a huge romantic gesture and when Alek reforms, he reforms big so it is very satisfying.
If the series is a fun as I think it is going to be, I will likely be rereading this one because the couple is fun.
However, the book has plenty of flaws in the plot and character development that I hope that is writer with such great promise correct over time.
Enjoy this book!
If you want to know why this book was a 3 star instead of the 5 star it had the potential to be and don't mind spoilers, read on!
(view spoiler)[Whenever, I read a book that could have been great but was merely good or sometimes less than that, I like to give as much feedback as possible especially if the writer has yet to be fully established.
The book opens with more of an erotic scene than erotica or romance. The hero is very bored as he ploughs a fellow centaur (in human form--there is a rule against centaur form intercourse). The scene establishes his ennui but it isn't really sexy nor needed. I get sick of the rake troupe anyway but I really don't need to see the hero treating another woman as just a lay. I think it would have served the book better if he just wasn't all that interested anymore. The book overall was plenty spicy. It didn't really need the extra sex. . The heroine has a really really distorted view of her level of beauty. She has very low self esteem because of abusive parents (particularly her mother). While she is very curvy, in the eyes of everyone else she is amazing looking. Super hot in fact. I would have liked it better if she was just nice looking and the hero simply saw her as smoking hot. I also know that self esteem issues from abuse don't just go away but when ever we are in her head her thoughts are repetitive and most often on her ickiness. I get bad tapes that need to be broken but since the book didn't really delve deep into these issues and became more of an action adventure her character is left flatter in its development that she could be.
I loved her crazy hair, freckles, and blushing.
She is a troll which is awesome. She has speed, pointed ears, can dislove through dirt and rock, and can be grumpy. How cool! However, the book never discusses how this vision of a troll differs from the human stories and why. Humans wander into this enchanted forest so this book is not out of human touch exactly. I think it would be neat if one of her powers when scared was to turn into a traditional troll. She is called a gnomette sometimes but that is not exactly the same thing. Maybe there are different kinds of trolls. This is fine but I want in on this knowledge.
She is creating a business and this plot just drops off the face of the earth. Her poverty isn't really explained nor what she has been doing for her long lifetime. All her friends and life drop away as well.
We get very little of the hero's background either. We get hints of the possible lady villian of the piece and his past relationship. We learn late he lost his family and a bit of his war experience.
There is a time skip while Ella recovers that I would have loved to have not had and instead had more time with the couple.
Ella and Eli are two close of names for the brother and sister who are not twins. I don't need to be in Eli head as much as I am. We could have saved his point of view for his book. The names thing made me double check whose head I was in several times.
Despite these flaws, the writing and world are compelling and I enjoyed to book. Can't wait to read the 1st book now! (hide spoiler)]...more
I have been excited about this series since I read the first book. The world building is great and the romances are light hearted, sexy, and touching,I have been excited about this series since I read the first book. The world building is great and the romances are light hearted, sexy, and touching, Here we have hot French Immortal who has a thing for very strong women and Krysta who kicks major ass as a vampire hunter. Their love story is quick and made much more exciting by mind reading. There is a great deal going on in this book. Maybe a little too much as I might have enjoyed more relationship development as much as I liked seeing the couples and characters from other books. You will definitely want to read the other books before you read this one but is a good read.
Can't wait for several of the characters to meet their match and hope the Duvall spends a little more time on the romance next time but overall I am vampire romance happy.
I was given this book for my honest review. So, there you have it! ...more
I always forget just how good of a writer Emma Holly is and then I am middle of her book its two am and I completely entrenched in the world and charaI always forget just how good of a writer Emma Holly is and then I am middle of her book its two am and I completely entrenched in the world and characters she has conjured.
The World: I love this world. I really perfer know paranormal worlds. I hate wasting time having people come to grips with a new normal. This known world is wonderful. A urban city that is other friendly with certain types tending towards certain jobs. Our tiger shifter heroine is a firefighter as is all her crew. Our wolf shifter hero is a cop. The group dynamics are good.
Our heroine: Kick ass Alpha Tiger Shifter with twin 6 year olds from a previous relationship and cool astral projection skills.
Our Hero: A very hot and handsome wolf shifter cop who has not been a one woman man up until now.
There is a really icky crime they are working to solve together. Childern are in jeopardy so beware. The romantic suspense is very well done and compelling.
Erotica: Holly writes great blistering erotica level sex in character. It is not vanilla but it feels really so it stays in the romance realm in this book.
The Love Story: Arises out the leads pasts and personality and is believable and lovely.
Secondaries: The twin tiger shifter 6 years olds are a blast. There are many other characters that are worthy as well. If you have been reading the series, you will enjoy see familiar faces. You don't have to have read the other books to enjoy!
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