Review: Great paranormal romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2013
The book starts out with the slaughtering of Nexi's parents. She's about to be kidnapped when two men wearing leather kilts show up and save her. Turns out that one of them is her biological father. Fast forward a month and Nexi is still grieving her parents and is ready to seek vengeance. Kyden decides to train her as a guardian in an effort to keep her from getting herself killed since she seems to like running off on these harebrained trips to avenge her family's death. However, as they train, people are showing up dead due to otherworldly encounters and it's the guardian's job to stop it.I liked the world that the author created. There's a council who govern all the otherworldly factions and help keep the mortal clueless. When something happens the werewolves track the parties involved based off of the scent, vampires glamor any witnesses so that they have no recollection of what happened, witches help assist in any way that they can, for instance Haven (Nexi's bond sister) can recreate moments in time so that they can see what took place and the guardians hunt down the offenders and deliver justice. There were a few times where everyone pooled together at a scene of a crime where we could see this intricate dance take place.I also, of course, enjoyed the romance aspect of the story. Kyden has been interested in Nexi since he rescued her at her family's home but he's held back. He knows Nexi has been raised as a mortal and he tries to adapt the ways she was raised at takes this slow with her. Only she seems to push too much on his protective nature and pretty soon they are establishing a relationship. The romance wasn't overly steamy, but it wasn't a closed door romance either... more like the door was cracked.I liked the fighting in the story although I wish that it were more graphic. It seemed like everything in the story was pretty tame. The fighting was there but a fight would be in full effect and then Nexi would blink and the person would be on the floor dead. I just felt like the fight scenes were lacking in detail.One thing I didn't really care for was Nexi's naivety. She's 25 and yet when tasked to walk into a strip club to question a perp, she gets all mortified. Not to mention that a couple of the guys get all grossed out leaving one guy to be a perv and watch the performances taking place. I mean, I'm not saying I frequent strip clubs but if I was a kick-ass guardian who has been to murder scenes, killed people and in order to save someone I knew, had to walk into a strip club, I wouldn't think twice. I would stride in there with my head held high making eye contact with everyone until I found the person I was looking for.