Review: Promising New Paranormal Romance Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 29, 2013
Nexi, our heroine, has been plunged into a new world with the murder of her adoptive parents where she discovers she is half witch and half guardian. Guardins are super strong immortals who seem to have a bit in common with Beserkers. She is trained in her new skills by an uber hot guardian named Kyden. While hunting down the bad guy, romance ensues.The novel is an expansion of a previous published work The Willow from Kennedy's Magical Sword series and creates an interesting world and cast of others for the reader to play in. We have sexy werewolves, vampires, guardians, and witches. The witches are the most intriguing group here with elemental powers and soul sister connections. The werewolves, as usual, are pretty yummy too.The book and therefore the series is promising. I am always on the look out for fun new paranormal worlds. However, at this point the book just offers a promise more than it delivers. The world is well developed and the action scenes are good. The characters all have great qualities--like Nexie's is pretty kick ass. However, the logic and motivation in the plot and characters isn't really there. An example: they are in the middle of investigating the murder of her adopted parents and we get very little investigation. There are more ways to find out things than beating a witness and often that doesn't even happen, they are just killed.Character development is a bit lacking. An example, did Nexie have a job before the events of this novel? It would have been great if the couple could have spent a bit more time together as well. The novel felt a bit shorter than it needed to be.Overall, it was a pleasant read and I will likely read the second in the series because I like the world and hope some of the less pleasing aspects of the writing are worked out. I think of this kind of book as popcorn. It fulfills a craving (in this case for training in fighting and witches-the best parts of the book) but I am not going to return to it again and again for rereading.This book was given to me as an ARC for an honest review.If you like these themes, it has them!  Might be some spoilers.1st-in-series, alpha-male,alterative-dimension, big-and-tall-hero,discovered-heritage,discovered-parent,elemental-powers,family-wiped-out, great-cover,grief,heritage-revealed,heroine-saves, impulsive heroine,kick-ass-heroine,new-powers heroin, paranormal-romance-series,peite heroine, spitfire, swords,training-in-fighting, vampirea, virgin-heroine-not-norm,warrior, witches, wolf-shifters