Review: Remedy Maker: A healing balm for a needy reader.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Fantasy romance is not a sub-genre I’ve often read. Because of this, I chose an award winning novelist’s tale to kick back and relax. I was soon sitting upright, not so relaxed. Sexy, strong centaurs and wood nymphs live within the forests of contemporary times.Rhycious is a royal remedy maker (a healer for the crown) whose mind continues to struggle with a past war when the centaurs and nymphs were enemies. Rhy has existed for a couple hundred years plus. His hatred for the nymphs is carved in stone and memory, but when a human friend drops an unconscious nymph on his doorstep, his shaman side can’t refuse her.Patience is a young wood nymph with an eclectic way of speaking that throws her centaur physician for a loop. The huge, handsome centaur by night and man by day throws her heart into turmoil. Although the war is over, the two races do not mix well. Yet, the gruff, alluring remedy maker cannot be ignored, and Patience cannot forget his touch.Juggling the Centaur queen’s orders to investigate an uprising to unhinge the peace the mystical races enjoy, Rhy also helps Patience find her sister. I love a book that teaches me something, but even more gratifying is the sensual, thigh-quaking love scenes. You won’t find symmetrical phrases you’ve seen time and time again in this novel. There’s only so many ways to write a love scene, but Ms. Fredricks has broken the paradigm.There’s intrigue, suspense, action, but there are also two things rarely found that you will see in Sheri Fredricks writing:  A voice that is poetic without being purple and a complex plot on par with Lord of the Rings. This is exceptional story telling from an intelligent writer who puts thought and purpose into every scene. You won’t forget her literary voice once you’ve read it.