Review: A bland historical fantasy of lust and self-fulfilling prophecies
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
This story has a lot of instant-lust turned into love, and the supernatural (the heroine can predict the future, including her own). While the other did not bother me, the former did. Given that it is a novella, I give concessions to how deep and moving a story is made due to its short length, but this one did not meet my low expectations for it. Suffice it to say, I found the story lacking in originality, wit, any semblance of romance. A few pages in, it turned into two characters knew the other was their destiny; the hero sought to claim the heroine, and the heroine futilely tried to resist their gravitational pull towards each other. It was fate's doing, after all. But that's just it; in a story governed by fate, where is free and willing love? Not in this one, unfortunately.