Review: Charming escape fantasy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 3, 2013
I RECEIVED THIS BOOK AS A FREE REVIEWING COPY FROM THE PUBLISHER.REVIEW CONTAINS WHAT SOME MAY CONSIDER SMALL SPOILERS.Have you ever visited Renaissance Faire? I never did, but always wanted to and Devin, the main character of this story comes to the Faire, because he is on the run and he thinks he needs to pick some pockets and steal some money. Of course this small town has different thoughts about why Devin needed to come there. I love the stories where the city/town becomes the character of its own and this was done very well in this book. The blurb hints that there is magic involved, but lets just say that there was a lot more magic in this book that I thought after reading a blurb.I am not complaining, do not get me wrong - this whole set up made me wishing for finding that wonderful place which can help the misfits finding the place in the world that they are searching for, heal them, offer them a place to stay. And mind you if the Faire wanted something, her residents sometimes just had to follow the pull of the magic. Not saying anything more on that topic, because this would go into significant spoilers reveal which I would rather not do.I am not sure if I would be just as enchanted by romance between Ezra and Devin if it happened in a different settings. I mean, I liked them both, but we shall see if the characters turn out to be as memorable for me as I am pretty sure the settings would be. Their attraction is pretty fast, but at least it is not of - I love you, let's get married and move in together within days after they met. I did not mind it too much. I liked that they had to deal with danger to Devin - meaning they had stuff to do besides enjoying each other's company and having sex. In fact, I REALLY liked how the whole storyline about Devin's being in danger played out and what unexpected consequences it had for yet another misfit who now would be safe too. That hit one of my buttons in a very good way.I felt sex scenes between them were good, but for my taste could have been shorter. It did not completely overwhelm me, so that was fine. Speaking about sex scenes, I had to scratch my head about completely wierd short het sex scene occuring somewhere in the middle of the story. It is not the fact that there was a het sex of course that made me scratch my head. I would have been personally very pleased for example if the romance between Richard and Gail - two lovely secondary characters and residents of Faire would have become a tad more explicit and ended in sex scene. Instead we get Devin taking a tour of the Faire of the sorts, walking into BDSM corner of the town so to speak and observing the no-name girl giving a no-name guy a blowjob. What? Why did we need it there, I have absolutely no clue.Otherwise I really liked the story.