Review: Well written fairy tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
This is part of the Invitation to Eden series, where each book is by a different author.  The commonality is the Island of Eden, in the waters near the Bermuda Triangle, where there is a castle and magic can happen.  Otherwise, each story is independent of the others.  The prequel book introduces the island itself.In this book, the heroine, Leila, is a romance writer who in the opening scene is just back from a conference, where her book is critiqued harshly.  She comes home to find an invitation to the island offered by a romance writer she looks up to, with the offer of mentoring.  She troops off to the island to spend a week with her mentor guiding her step by step through a new book.  In the course of writing the book, she spells out her hero in detail, and finds him appearing, or at least she imagines him there on the island with her, Sebastian.  Throughout her time on the island she is unsure if he is real or just her imagination, the magic of the island.  I'll leave off the ending because otherwise it would be a spoiler of course.This book has a fairy tale feeling.  Not really paranormal, etc., but true Prince Charming type of fairy tale feeling to the reading.  I find that is not to my taste, but it is well written and creative.  For me personally I like to immerse myself in the relationship rather than in the technical details of the heroine and her writing problems (probably because I'm not a writer!).  It was simply too airy and not concrete enough for me so I didn't find myself hooked into the story.  Again though, it was good writing by the author.  My final rating is 3.5 to 4 stars because I think while it just wasn't the book for my reading style it was a wonderful effort and contribution to this series.I haven't read other works by this author, but I did look up some of the other character names mentioned peripherally in this work and find they are cameo appearances from stars of her other works.  Readers of this author will likely love that.  :)I received a copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley for an honest review.