Review: review of immortal protector
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2013
What a wonderful read despite being a novella.  Ms Claire Ashgrove had a great story of Iain the handsome chivalrous knight but doomed hero meeting the beautiful heroine Catherine who serves a higher calling but is not only plagued by personal demons but unholy ones too.  Catherine is a novitiate even though wanting to take the vows to become a full fledged nun she can’t resist her attraction and her love for Iain.  Iain is also a great character too after losing his seraph he struggles to remain a knight templar and to continue serving them.  Both Catherine and Iain personal struggles with their chosen vocations and their love for each other is written beautifully that you can really feel for them and understand them too.I had a hard time believing that this was a novella the story just pulled me in then it just ended abruptly with unanswered questions I never did figure out.  Catherine has a necklace claiming her genetic link and ancestry that she is related to one of the knights but since I never understood it neither did anyone else even though she was able to find proof of it.  Iain eventually get’s the okay to keep being Catherine’s protector and is therefore released from his “knighthood” and is no longer immortal even though the archangel told him he would remain immortal if he continues as her protector; later on Catherine tells Iain that he isn’t immortal and maybe he could become a father this seemed unclear to me.  You have two different statements going here so either Iain is immortal or he’s not.  I understand that maybe Ms. Ashgrove had to cut out some explanations due to constraints of fitting into the work of a novella but maybe she just should have made it into a full length novel to fully explain this I guess I just really didn’t want the story to end.In spite of all this I still enjoyed the story and will definitely read the rest in the curse of the templar series since some of the characters from the other books make cameo appearances in the novella and I really want to read their stories as well.  I would recommend this read and will surely get more works from Ms. Ashgrove.