Review: a diverting fantasy romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2011
This third novelette has some interesting moments, mainly with the dragons. It leans more heavily on a standard romance novel trope: the 'annoying' attraction the hero feels for the feisty 'catwoman' of book two, and contains an explicit sex scene. It also has some hints of originality peeking through. These books were an enjoyable diversion and hint that the author may have far more talent than shows through the apparent desire to meet the perceived audience's projected expectations - in other words C.L. Blevill will likely do very well to let go and follow an individual inner vision more than to attempt to be 'commercially' successful. If the author should read this, I have an odd suggestion to increase the stretching of your literary muscles: not for sale, but for you, try retelling this story from the point of view of the werewolves and the unseelie court and try to engage their emotions and motivations - everyone loves a good villian, but many love shades of gray even more - and maybe the other bad guys as well. Your reality of interlinked worlds may grow much richer and provide scope for a much better story about some different challenge for the Committee.