Review: Awesome world building
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2013
ROMANI ARMADA is a stellar continuation of a series I adore, but the ménage romance was lackluster for me and failed to combine the emotional and sexual intimacy I expected from the previous books.Deonne is a human who works for the vampires' time travel agency and she's having an affair with one, Justin. Justin doesn't understand why Deonne wants to become a vampire but when the vampires' worst enemy targets Deonne, Justin stashed her in ancient China. Justin is shocked when he receives a time delayed letter saying Deonne has fallen in love with a vampire from that time and he has returned for Deonne. But the vampire Deonne is with shares a shocking history with Justin and if these three can survive the attacks on the vampires, their lives will never be the same.This series has such stellar world building that I await each release with baited breath. I love the time travel agency run by vampires and the war with Gabriel, a psy with killer powers out to destroy vampires. I love all the characters in the agency and the new ones introduced here. Series fans will be sniffling as I was with the outcome of a doomed romance between the agency's resident psy and her Russian vampire lover. What I most adored, however, is the new character of a low-cast vampire warrior. I can't wait for his book and I suspect it may be soon!So while I adored the world building, I didn't love the ménage romance. Deonne and Justin are already sleeping together when the novel begins so new readers will be a little lost. This was fine for me as a series reader but my difficulty was I never felt like I saw their emotional connection with each other. Then when Adan is introduced, the romance lost any fizzle it had. These three are drawn together but it never seemed more than superficial. The sex was fine but the emotional intimacy was nonexistent in my opinion. I can't ruin who Adan is but his relationship with Justin seemed based on that instead of current feelings. Deonne was lovely to look at but I never understood what drew the men to her or her to them. Perhaps the series' romances before this were so strong that I compared them here and this book came up short for me.Even though I didn't love the romance in ROMANI ARMADA, the world building more than made up for it and will have me eagerly awaiting the next book in this series.Reviewed by J9for TheRomanceReviews.com