Review: Too repetative, fails to create romance, Good Supernatural aspects and plot.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
Ok~ I am going to copy and paste from another reviewer EXACTLY why I did not like this book, then I'll say what I did like.  She said it perfectly:"And one of the most annoying things was all the back-and-forth. In one chapter the hero says "we can never ever have sex" but then a few pages later he is saying "we WILL have sex TONIGHT, be ready for it". Over and over and over. And then it becomes, "we WILL beat this thing" and then "no, we CAN'T beat this thing". Over and over and over. And the heroine is saying "I have to be with you" and then "no I can't be with you". Over and over and over. It ended up feeling like the author lacked any kind of clarity herself. Was she trying to build up sexual tension with the back and forth stuff? I don't know, but it didn't work. And when they did have sex, I found it just as long and unnecessary as the so-called buildup and skimmed those pages."That pretty much sums up what I felt about the emotional and sexual aspect of this book.  They both desperately want each other for pages and pages and it's just like beating a dead horse. By the time they finally did have sex, it was not great reading and nothing special.  I was so sick of reading the same thing over and over.  The author repeats herself ad nauseum to the point where I just could not take it any more.  Sad, because the pros were good ones:Pros:What I really liked was that her imagination in creating 'new' and very interesting supernatural powers with the characters.  Nothing I've seen before.  The heroine is an 'Illusionist' and can create very real illusions that even she cannot control when under stress.The Hero has his weapons branded onto the skin of his arms and can call them forth when he's ready to fight.  Each warrior has weapons special to him and only he can use them.  Very cool.  The Illusionist element is really interesting and the heroine is able to see where her Illusionist sister has been by a colored dust that is left behind in areas where she created Illusions.  I am almost more interested in the sister's story ( I am guessing in another book) than I am by this heroine.  The sister has been kidnapped by the 'bad guy' and he is abusing her to force her to create bad Illusions that he uses on his enemies.  The sister has previously only been able to create happy, good Illusions, but when she is emotionally distressed, the bad ones come out. Something she didn't know she could do.  Anyway, I'm just bummed that this book misses the romance aspect so badly.