Review: Great H/h, not great fantasy world
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
I am a huge KA fan.  There is nothing that she writes that I would ever say was bad.  This book and series has some positives and negatives.Positives:  I really like the heroine, Circe, in this book.  She is strong, spirited and very funny. I like the concept of a modern woman being thrown into a primitive society and this book does that very well.  I like the concept of traveling to an parallel universe to replace a twin.  Lahn is KA's typical alpha male and really pushes the boundries of my alpha comfort zone.  But KA always knows how to walk that fine line between what is an acceptable way for said alpha to treat his woman.  And you get all of KA's signature work-girl posse, crazy family members, long rambling prose.  All ot this and more makes for a very entertaining read.Negatives:  KA is not a very skilled world builder, like say J. R. Ward or Karen Moning (Dark Fever series). I have read almost every book she has written and am not basing that opinion solely on this series.  She has tried gothic, vampire/werewolf, etc. and for me they just don't work.  What she is very good at is writing the middle America alpha male plot.  This fantasyland really is not believable at all and you could take the entire thing and plunk it into Denver, Colorado and it would be the same thing.