Review: WOW!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2012
I just finished this book five minutes ago and my one and only thought now is WOW!It was an amazingly good book with a storyline so very out of the ordinary and characters that stood out to most characters in romance.The book takes place in a world where Elves are the rulers and humans are frowned upon because of their mortality. Halidan, a human woman, is thrown out of the house where she works as a teacher because her father had the audacity to get sick. She loses most of her belongings in the process and is left with a dying father and not much else. In her grieving condition she meets Eioth, an Elf and High Lord, who has just come across a book called The Use and Complexity of Sex Magic - hence the title of this book. Eioth commands all the known kinds of magic and is curious about this new kind - sex magic - which he`s never tried before. And seeing Halidan, he knows who he wants to perform this magic with.This is NOT porn or erotica in spite of what the title may indicate. It`s a clever and very smart fantasy-romance with so very interesting characters. Read as a romance this book will make you smile because Eioth and Halidan seem like perfect fits - their different nature aside. Read as a fantasy this book will hold you intrigued because of the interesting universe and the power struggles that are so very well described. It`s the kind of book that leaves you screaming for more books from that same universe. A book about Federer, for instance? Or one of Halidan`s guards? Oh, I wish.If you like romance but want something out of the ordinary, then this book might be the one for you. I can recommend it with no hesitations!EDIT: I noticed the author had changed the title of the book and I think that was a very wise choice!