Review: Great Book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
I really enjoyed reading Leopold’s Wicked Embrace. It’s the 5th book in Grosso’s Immortals of New Orleans series, so I was a little concerned that I would be lost going into it, but I don’t feel as though I missed any huge part of the story by starting with book 5. I’m sure it would have enhanced my reading experience knowing more of the back story of some of the characters, but I definitely never felt lost having not read the others.Kym Grosso seems to have a great talent for merging and balancing all of the elements I enjoy reading into one book. Leopold’s Wicked Embrace has humor, action, mystery, supernatural characters, romance and everything else I need to like a book without one particular element overshadowing any of the others. Each element plays its own very important role, so there are no places in the book where it felt as though she was just trying to fill spaces to make the book longer.In this world there is pretty much every supernatural creature you could want. There are vampires, werewolves, witches, and a few others that I’ll leave you to figure out for yourself. While they obviously don’t all always love each other, they do seem to be able to get along when necessary and work together to do what needs to be done. That’s definitely something I enjoyed about this book. There really is something for everyone who enjoys paranormal hanging out in Grosso’s New Orleans!Each character has its own weaknesses and strengths. Laryssa has been hiding what she is from everyone for so long. It’s really starting to wear her out. Leopold needs her help to find out why someone is trying to kill baby Ava and just who is behind it all. Ava seems to be like Laryssa, supernaturally speaking, so Laryssa feels a bond with the baby. Laryssa is really not to eager to tell Leopold exactly what she is, since she is something a bit different from what we regularly see in paranormal romance books. I know they are out there, but I, myself, haven’t read too many books about them. It was a refreshing change from the usual. She was the kind of female lead that has strengths as long as she doesn’t let her weaknesses get in the way if that makes any sense!The dynamic among the male characters in Leopold’s Wicked Embrace was just hilarious to me. The wolves really seem to have a great sense of humor, and I would totally want to hang out with these guys. The vampires seem to be your typical angsty type of people, many assuming they are better than everyone else and that sort of thing, but Leopold himself is likeable enough.Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone who likes Paranormal Romance with a variety of species. I would also recommend they also read the rest of the series, as I myself will be doing very, very soon! If the rest of the books in this series are as good as Leopold’s Wicked Embrace, I may have found a new series to add to my list of favorites!