Review: Five stars not enough!!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
What makes a book hard to put down?  What makes a few minutes of reading turn into hours because not turning another page is impossible?  I have read all the reviews and am still at a loss to explain but I am going to try because I would hate for someone not to have the same pleasure that I have just had reading "Taunting Destiny".The ability to enthral is potent.  That is what this author has in abundance.  This novel like the first one is fast paced, full of constant unfolding action and agendas, and is intricate and highly sensual not just in the behaviour of the characters but in the wording that the writer chooses and manipulates.  Ryder is so appealing that it is hard to step away and see him as just a character in a book. He is strong, darkly mysterious and down to earth in his wants and desires. Similarly Syn becomes someone you want to shake sense into but at the same time love for her vulnerability.  He is a volcano of lust constantly spitting out fire but with her it overflows and takes everything in its path with it. Whilst Synthia has the strength to accomplish anything she is still at heart a woman whose desire to be loved is intrinsic and not a product of her environment but of her soul.  The lava is all-consuming so it is hard to give in when common sense tells you lava burns.  We may hate the way Ryder behaves towards her, he is arrogant, sexually demanding and forceful but...what was that I was saying about hating something?  As reader we know that inside somewhere in the recesses of his black heart she is his weakness no matter the world he comes from, and that for her he will adapt,change perhaps not, but bend enough so that her essence is maintained...?  This is hypnotic.  What woman doesn't want to be the one?Amelia Hutchins creates reader involvement from that first page so we enter into this magical world where dark and light blend not necessarily nicely but always fiercely and enjoy the ride into the suspension of real life with a great deal of delight.P.S.  I hate the cliff hanger ending as it means I have to wait.