Review: The Order of the Black Swan
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 23, 2013
I received this copy in order to review it, and when this set was offered to me, I had already read the first book, “My Familiar Stranger” and was anxious to read the others in the series.  While these books can be read as stand-alone, you really need to read them in order to understand all the characters.  “My Familiar Stranger” is not your normal “paranormal romance”.  The setting captivated me from the beginning and I could not wait to see what happened next.  One negative however is that the author does not develop the romances very deeply.  The characters have very busy lives and it is almost as if their falling in love is in the background somewhere.  The second book “The Witches Dream” starts very shortly after the first book ends.  I had a harder time getting interested in it however.  (Spoiler alert)I have never been a fan of “romance” books where one character is in love with someone else through the whole book and/or where one character is rude and uncaring towards the love interest throughout the book until close to the end and then decides “we are in love....the end”.  This book has both scenarios.The third book “A Summoner’s Tale” Picks up right at the end of book two.  I had read where a great deal of the book deals with Baka’s past and that is true, but you really need to know his past to get to his present situation.Give this saga a try, you won’t be sorry!