Review: A Journey of Healing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
Book 8 in the Brides of the Kindred seriesWARNING - Might contain spoilersThe story of Nina and Reddix takes you on an interesting journey. Nina is your typical girl with her mind set on becoming a physician's assistant. Strong. Caring. Kind. She works multiple jobs and isn't model perfect. Lately she has been having disturbing dreams of a man with a shadowed face leaves her frightened yet taken over by lust at the same time - she has something he needs. Reddix is a Touch Kindred with an inverted Touch Sense -- he can't touch with his mind like others of his kind. Instead he feels everyone's emotions in a physical sense every time he is around anyone. He is rough around the edges yet caring in his own way as well as passionate.Desperate for a cure, he kidnaps Nina after making a deal with a swamp witch from his home planet. But things don't exactly go as planned.Unlike the other books, this one focuses mainly on Reddix and Nina - unlike others that sort of went back and forth between certain characters that tied the whole story together. Though the author did a great job reminding the readers of the very first characters and what is going on with them now [which I loved cause I always want to know more about my fave characters in the series]  What I like about the characters in the series as a whole is that the female characters are relate-able to the reader - they are your average, every day girls with self esteem issues and not so pretty pasts not to mention dreams and issues with their menThe story started off strong and as much as I love the series I think the ending could have been much better. I felt like it was missing something though I look forward to the next book, ChainedFavorite Quotes:▬ "Stop trying to protect me," he growled. "I'm not your lover or your mate - I'm nobody to you.""Yes, you are," Nina insisted, her heart pounding. "Or you could be. If you'd let yourself be."▬ "I'll kidnap you again and take you someplace far, far away with just the two of us," he promised hoarsely. "I swear it."▬ ..."In a choice between painful electrical shocks and being 'taken advantage of' by a beautiful female, which one do you think I'd choose?"