Review: promising start for a new series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 16, 2013
I'm a fan of Ms. Bell so I buy all her works. When I read the reviews for this one I didn't have very high expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. I actually quite liked this work. I liked that the author didn't fall back on the mated-fated relationship ploy. These two had known each other for a long time (he was friends with her brother). When the need to protect her arises, they still take time to become intimate. This made the relationship more believable for me.A lot of reviewers have complained about her many tstl moments. I only found one time where she ran from him. She thought about it other times but only left once. She had a couple of other lapses in judgement but they weren't sufficient for me to rank them as tstl. Her trust issues matched the background for her character. They were completely in context. I also liked that the hero was not an infallible, all-seeing, all-knowing character. The bad guy was able to deceive and elude him. He made mistakes and admitted to them. I thought her calm acceptance of his revelation of what he was, was a bit surreal. That should have freaked her out more than it did.There was a fair bit of page time devoted to explaining the world but I can accept that in the first book of a new series. I expect that future books in this series will have less of that. All in all, I look forward to the next book in this series.