Review: Finally, the 3 year wait is over!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2014
‘Undying Desire’ is the third book in the Warriors of the Enclave Series, now re-titled the Novels of the Enclave, and also the first new e-book of the series in three years. Originally the first two books in the series were published with a different publisher and different names, #1 Desire to Die For and #2 Dark Desires at Midnight in 2011. I had the pleasure of reading these books back then and have been anxiously awaiting the third book in the series since then.With revisions and a new publisher the first two books in the series were re-released this past year under the names #1 Undying Destiny and #2 Undying Embrace. Having never read the new revised versions I still found it very easy to follow from the originals into this new book.This is the story of Guerino Lombardi and Eve Devonshire, Kenric St. James second-in-command and his 300 year old hybrid daughter that he knows nothing about. As I started reading I was rather dismayed to realize that this would be a book heavy in Dominant/submissive tendencies in the bedroom since I don’t personally care for that type of story in my romances. However I was pleasantly surprised that Jessica Lee put a twist on it and the Dominant in this case was Eve and the big macho warrior Guerino was the submissive. Made for a much more interesting read I must say.As for the story itself I won’t bother repeating the brief synopsis which can be easily read on the purchasing page for the book or covered by several other reviewers. Instead I will give my own opinions and impressions from finally getting to read a book I have waited three years for.To be honest the book I have really been waiting for in this series would be about the warrior-turned-villain Marcus from the first book and his fascination with his concubine Alexandria. I have since discovered from the author that that will be the fourth book in the series, which she is currently writing. No matter though, the author did a very good job of furthering his story for the next book. I think it will be very difficult to redeem Marcus after all the atrocities he helped commit in the first two books, and so she needed more of his story included in this book to further his own progress along enough as a sympathetic character so it would be believable for the next book. She managed to do that quite well so I was happy.The setup for Guerino and Eve’s story was actually created at the end of the last book so it wasn’t really a surprise she needed to focus on them for this book and I really enjoyed their journey into falling in love. The BDSM was really the only negative point I had with this book. The sex scenes were hot and plentiful with a lot of D/s, so if you like that type of kink in your bedroom scenes than you will definitely enjoy it. If not, like myself, you could just skip those parts, though to be honest I couldn't skip them because no matter what, Jessica Lee always manages to write great bedroom scenes. Guerino and Eve outside of the bedroom were quite lovely as a couple anyway. Who doesn’t love reading about two lonely, misunderstood people finding each other? And Eve’s conflicting feelings about her father, Kenric, was almost painful to read since her mother did quite a good job of lying to her over the years about him.I would not consider this a stand alone novel since you really need to know the back story from the past two books to understand what is going on. Having said that, I would definitely recommend this book in the continuing series of the Enclave. I don’t think you would be disappointed in it if you enjoyed the first two books in the series.