Review: More please! Great book and series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2013
Great book! And great series… at least that’s my impression. Bittersweet Magic is the actually the first book I’ve read in The Order Series and by Nina Croft in general.Now I can honestly say she became one of my favorite authors with just this one book!The world she builds for The Order is modern yet very interesting, new, and fabulous. It reminds me a bit of Larissa Ione’s Demonica and Lords of Deliverance world. And I mean this in a good way! I love Larissa Ione’s books. However Nina Croft’s world is no cheap copy. It has its own charm and a lot of new aspects which make the whole setting of the book extremely interesting and pleasurable. There are so many races… Vampires, Demons, Fae, Werewolves, Witches,  of course humans and some I will not tell you about because it would ruin the ending for you ;)The characters are well developed and they instantly caught me in their story and I had to know what happens next all the time. I couldn’t put the book down.Roz is a tough woman… at least that’s what she herself believes. Others around her see her more caring side a lot more than Roz herself. In my opinion this is something that is very hard to express for an author… a character that lies to herself about what she wants or is. Most of the time it’s not really believable and I get the impression the author does it just to make the character more likable to the reader… you know what I mean, try to give the character flaws where there actually are none.However, Nina does this amazingly well! I loved Roz and I really believed she thought about herself that way… okay, I’m rambling here and it’s a bit confusing even for me.  I hope you know what I’m trying to say ;)Piers is a very old vampire and acts like one. He is dominant, arrogant, sexy, and always gets what he wants… women. Of course now he wants Roz.The two are great together and alone. I think this is something important in a good book. The H/h have to be great characters on their own in order to make a great couple and therefore a great book. Roz does not depend on Piers but nevertheless they are there for each other.Another big fat plus of this book is that it does not give away too much of the first book. Nina Croft does not re-tell the whole story of the first book in the series (which is also not necessary to get what’s going on). At the end of Bittersweet Magic I still don’t really know what happened to Tara and Christian and I love it. This way I can still read the first book. Otherwise it would just be boring to read it when you already know everything that’s going to happen.I loved the side characters!!  Asmodai is awesome! He’s just hot. I hope he gets his own book. Also the other guys working for the order were really cool. That’s the only way to describe them. They are just cool.I want more of the Order! I can only recommend this to paranormal fans!