Review: Pleasant Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
I'm giving this three stars because it's nicely written, and in all fairness to the author, I couldn't finish it so I don't want to give less than three stars. I read the first half, skimmed the second. This is a pleasant story about pleasant people. As a shifter story, it has no bite. There is no, absolutely no, conflict or tension between Sasha and Monroe. Sasha accepts that Monroe is from another realm all too easily. The only tension is from a rival for Monroe's affections, and that conflict is superficial at best. The over abundance of rhetorical questions really bothered me, and I couldn't understand why the editor let the writer use so many rhetoricals. Sasha is supposed to be thirty, but she thinks, acts and dresses like a woman much, much older. Maybe that was the author's intent. Some may find this a nice fantasy love story. I usually want more push and pull between the hero and heroine. I love shifter stories, but this is more of a light fairytale without even the darkness that is found in real fairytales.