Review: Another great read from DeWylde
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 8, 2014
**Reader given an advance copy in exchange for an honest review**“You’re no knight in shining armor, but a douchebag in tin foil.” Sentences like this best explain why I love reading Saranna’s books. She makes me laugh hysterically, tears my heart out just when I get uber-attatched to her characters, and then makes everything okay.Okay, so she didn’t quite go that route with this book, but still. I did laugh, lots. And I just *know* that there’s more to Aphrodite’s story, so I’m looking forward to that coming out at some point in the future. Well, more like I’m looking forward to reading more of Aeron because he was just so yummy. ;)As with Desperate Housewives of Olympus, this book was a quick read – with many characters’ stories being told, it moves along at a good pace and doesn’t bog down. The one drawback to this being that you don’t always get as in-depth with the characters as a reader might like, unlike in Ms. DeWylde’s Ten Days series where there’s usually less characters to follow. Regardless, I liked the book. I haven’t read one by her yet that I haven’t liked. I read this in one five-hour sitting on a Saturday morning. I won’t lie – Guinevere annoyed the hell out of me, and I didn’t really want her to have a happy ending. She was a selfish, whiny twit. She deserved to be lonely and miserable, as far as I am concerned. But, that’s just my opinion. The other women of the book – especially Morgan le Fey and Aphrodite, I loved. Although to be honest, I’m still trying to figure out why Vivienne du Lac (the Lady of the Lake) was included, except that she’s Lancelot’s mother. I just didn’t see much in her character.As for the men of the book…I love a bad boy. And Saranna writes them so well. Mordred was definitely my favorite of the book, with Aeron being a close second. What I really liked though was the idea of King Arthur becoming the world’s biggest manwhore after Gwen left him. Instead of pining away and wallowing in misery, he turns into a bit of a jerk, and it’s fantastic. Lancelot is, well, Lancelot. He finds a new ‘lady’ to champion, the woman he has secretly been in love with for years, and eventually gains the happiness he thought he’d have with Gwen. And really, who wouldn’t want a knight in shining armor in their corner? Or, for that matter, in their bed?