Review: still enjoying the series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
Once you get a couple books into a series it gets harder and harder to review them. What can you say beyond I liked it more or less than the previous ones? Book 3 of the Order of the Blade series falls right in the middle for me. I liked it more than the second and less than the first. Rowe still manages to hit all of the right emotional notes with her überprotective males, but still overplays the hand a bit by telling the reader repeatedly how desperate they are to actually protect their mates. Ana and Elijah are a good pairing, well actually they're a horrible pairing and they know it, but they work.I have to admit I really felt sorry for ultra-baddie, Ezekiel, in this one. He was a psycho and all and I certainly didn't want him to triumph, but I did sympathise with him a little bit. It made for a nice emotional conflict. The whole double-branding thing (you'll know what I mean if you read it) didn't sit well with me. I felt like it undermined the sacredness of the soulmate bond, but I kind of got the point too. As the series progresses I keep waiting for some sort of divine architect to come into play. I guess I'll just have to keep at it to see if that happens.