Review: I'm in love!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2013
I won this whole series in a blog tour giveaway and they sat neglected and lonely on my Kindle app for I-don't-know-how-long until I finally decided to give them a shot. And they are über-awesome!You know all those girls who say they want a vampire boyfriend or an angel or a werewolf? Well, forget that. I want me a Vesturion Guardian. In my mind, you can't beat an honor-conscious, monotheistic, leather-clad alien who could flip a car with his brain. I was very surprised when I found out that the Vesturions practice pre-marital celibacy and when I read that, I knew I was in love with this series! (Don't judge me.)The plot:In the beginning, I wasn't sure about this book. The way the story progressed, I really started to worry because I didn't see how things could end well. (I lose interest in a story when I don't see it ending well.) But I should have known better. This was a romantic, oft times funny, very fun story and I gobbled down the next one straightaway after finishing!The characters:Maddie was a character I found it easy to sympathize with. She has no family--an only child with both parents dead--and she comes up with ways to avoid being lonely while still being on her own. For example, she spends every Christmas hiking (alone, which I thought was risky and it turned out I was right) and that is how she meets Rayn, her soulmate or amashan to the Vesturions.Rayn...what can I say about Rayn? Tall, dark, handsome, and just--I'm trying to utilize my vocabulary here...let me think--had a very strong appeal as a love interest. He can be a bit overprotective of Maddie, but that comes from the freakish alien bond that they share and is definitely everything a girl could want.I adored Rayn's siblings, his brothers--Therron, Rykerian, Xarrid--and his sister, Sharra. Sharra becomes a sort of best friend to Maddie while Therron is more the older brother. All of them (minus Xarrid) adore her and patiently endure her accident-prone nature (whilst taking pictures for future mockery, of course).Be forewarned, the way this story ends, you may want to have the next one on hand. I highly recommend this whole series. Happy reading!