Review: Decent Beginning but Lightweight Ending
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
I enjoyed the first Hidden Magic book in the series and took a chance on this one despite the high price for so few pages.  The beginning is interesting.  We learn young Kellum has been running from his father and his minions for 15 years.  The author sets this up as if the father is a major badA$$ villain.When Kellum meets his mate, Drake, Drake is going to do all this research on the father villain to come up with a strategy.  They are attacked before that can happen and instead of staying where it is safe, they go "home" even though the alarm has gone off at the house  Okay.  We never learn why the alarm went off at the house.  There does not appear to be any investigation of that.  Why go home if the alarm is going off and you are attacked.Then?  The big baddy appears and is defeated by Kellum's threats.  The end.  Seriously.  The father shows up, Kellum makes some threats and the book ends.  If the father was that easy to defeat, why didn't Kellum do it before?  It was as if the author just stopped being interested in the story and could not come up with a face off between father and son that would be worthy of all the fear and chases and 15 years of running.Further, there is not a lot of character development.  The story is so short that I did not get a sense of Kellum, Drake or the other 3-4 named characters mentioned in the book and that includes the big baddy father.This book really needed a whole other half.  Why does Kellum have so much magical ability.  Why did the assistant betray Drake?  Why did the father intend to do with Kellum?  Why was the father so easily defeated . . . was it because of the mating, or Kellum's age, or because it's Monday?For the price, there is not much to this book.  I really enjoyed the 1st book (William's House).  Rich primary and secondary characters. Even the house had characters.  Here, it's all passe:  Boy meets older man who is rich and powerful.  MINE.  Sex.  The end.