Review: Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. - Unknown
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2011
When Alexis loses her fiancé she also loses her ability to climb, not good news for a woman who is known as `The World's Bravest Woman'.  Her twin, Laurie, is everything Alexis is not, they are complete opposites. Laurie is small, curvy and beautiful and has a way of getting people to bend at her will.  Alexis isn't ugly, but she's tall and athletic and not at all used to getting what she wants.Laurie exercises her powers of persuasion and talks Alexis into heading to a new club to drink off some break up blues.  What they find is a club with a very discriminating idea on who can get past the doorman.  In order to bypass the pesky rules, Alexis finds herself scaling a fire escape and coming face to face with the club's owner, Jason.  The attraction is instant and starts a series of events that alters life as Alexis knows it.Once inside the club the mythical and immortal become real and they find out magic exists.  Alexis is soon caught up in a centuries old curse and tossed into a world that tests her courage again and again.  Mhaya is a Goddess obsessed with reclaiming her role and name, Marcus and Jason are immortals caught in her game.This short story essentially takes place in one evening and it is one busy night.  This novella does an excellent job of whetting the reader's appetite to the world the author has created, making the reader want to read and know more.  Both the storyline and the characters instantly captivate their audience.My one complaint is that the story was a little too short for me; I would have liked Jason and Alexis to have a few more pages of time together to cement their already established relationship.  I hope they will be featured in the future stories.  I really loved all the characters in this story.For such a short story it is definitely not lacking in content or substance.  The author did a great job of making the story feel very real, I can't wait to read what happens next.  I think this is going to be an exciting paranormal series.Cherise Everhard, August 2011