Review: Very good addition to the series :D
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 8, 2013
4 starsThis was a very good book. I liked Zoe, Iden and Miciah and enjoyed their story. This book took the series in an unexpected but interesting path and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes as the series progresses.Zoe is a psychic, having both empathetic gifts (mostly feeling sadness and despair coming from people in emotional pain) and she has the sight and is able to see things coming but usually can't help the people she sees in trouble. She finds that when she stays in one place too long her gifts tend to overwhelm her so she's constantly on the move. She was given a fortune a while back saying that when she falls in love completely her gifts will align together to work in a way that will allow her to help others. Zoe lives for that day, hoping that one day the problems brought by her gifts will be worthwhile in the end. When she starts dreaming of 2 men night after night she knows she meant to be with them and is excited but not surprised when they show up in her life.Miciah is a council member that is the ruling body on his home planet of Belisair. He was the Vesti match for Ariel (from book 2 Zeraac's Miracle) but since she was already bonded with Zeracc (who was her Amato match) and Komet (another Vesti that wasn't a match but was chosen by Zeraac) he gave up his claim on her to see her happy. Miciah's a good guy and does his best to be a good representative to his people. He wasn't expecting Ariel's daughter to come with him with claims of knowing who his match is and is surprised but very pleased to find out about Zoe. One look at her picture and he knows she's the one for him and proceeds to make it come about as quickly as possible.Iden is a Amato and a priest for his people. He spends his life helping his people as much as he can, and in this time of despair on his planet there's much need. He particularly has a hard time helping the women of their planet that have become infertile since the biological attack on their planet since there seems to be little hope of a solution. Iden is attracted to both men and women and has always had an attraction to Miciah but, due to cultural issues with men/men relationships held by the Vesti, Miciah has never been willing to be with Iden in that way. When Miciah comes to him, offering that they be partners in going to claim Zoe, Iden agrees but only if Miciah will agree to give in to their attraction for each other. Miciah agrees as long as Zoe is ok with them being together in that way.Zoe is on Earth and end up at an arts festival in her travels. She has been having intimate dreams of both Miciah and Iden for a week and knows it's more than just a dream so she's not surprised when they show up at the festival. They barely get out introductions and before they're all over each other. They spend the night and part of the next day having sex and spending some time together but before they've even spent 24 hours together, Miciah and Iden are taking Zoe to the transportation chamber to take her back to their planet. They get her to trust them and agree to go to their home with them but they don't really explain much of anything before performing the binding ceremony with Zoe before transporting them home. Zoe takes everything in stride and doesn't freak out at being in a new place or that her lovers now have wings. Miciah and Iden promise more answers but both get pulled away by urgent business as soon as they get back to the planet. Zoe ends up meeting Ariel, who is her long lost sister and finding out more about her new home through her.Things go really quickly in the story and the same day she arrives, Zoe is in the market place with Ariel and sees a Veszti woman in pain (seeing her emotional pain through her gift). Zoe decides to try to help and when she does, she's drawn in to a vision with the woman, one that seems to be a vision from the Vesti god that sends them on a trip to Earth to save a human girl with the genes that would make her welcome on Belisair. This gives the woman hope because she now has a daughter to raise but by going to Earth without permission they broke some laws and don't know how their actions will be taken. Regardless of this, Zoe finds the need to help other women as well (and all within her first couple days on the planet). While all this is going on, there's also strife between Miciah and Iden because, although Miciah is willing to give in to his urges to be with Iden in private (with Zoe's blessing and encouragement), he's not open to showing their relationship publicly. Miciah and Iden have to work things out and Miciah is forced to come to terms with his needs vs. his people's prejudices and the worry over what the people he represents on the counsel will say about him going against their cultural norms. Things aren't easy but I really liked the way this book ended, with hope and change for the future and, of course, a HEA for Zoe, Miciah and Iden.I really enjoyed this story. Zoe, Miciah and Iden are good characters that I liked. I also really liked how the story line for the series is going and how it's addressing not only the need for human women for mates to save the races from dying out, it also addressing the women suffering from being left infertile. The ending of the book was great and I'm really looking forward to seeing where the series goes from here. I'd recommend this book. Thumbs up. :D