Review: There's A Fairy Tale Love Story In Love Rising
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
Piper Vaughn first introduced Isla Sagrario years ago in Black John, the short story she contributed to the Dreamspinner Press pirate anthology Cross Bones, and is now revisiting the 18th century island she (and M.J. O’Shea) created then, a place where men can live and love openly, in Love Rising.This is a sweeping fairy tale of a story filled with both heartache and moments so romantic as to leave the reader breathless from the sighs that can only belong to the truest of love stories, where the impossible becomes real through the magic of want and need and the longing to belong to someone in spite of the odds against it happening.Piper has written a story that first engages the imagination, and then introduces two characters in the lonely Francis Holland and his merman love, Wick, who quickly found their place in my heart and hopes that they would somehow find a way to be together.The merfolk have long been a staple of seafaring legend and the stuff of which Hans Christian Andersen showed us the power of love and hope and sacrifice. Piper’s done the same, but in a happily-ever-after sort of way that I gladly recommend to all you romantics at heart.