Review: About Getting Human
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2013
Book provided by author’s representative for review purposes on my blog from which this is excerpted.  No remuneration exchanged and all opinions presented in the review itself are my own except as noted.This is the third book in a series about a place much like earth but with a different history and species.  While I read the second book with out the first and managed to understand and enjoy it a lot, this one is not a stand alone.  Without at least book two this will be hard to understand.  It’s really dependent on understanding the backstory and the world Boone creates.I really loved the way Boone portrays Rell as she regains her humanity and goes from a teen to a woman in a very short time.  The actual transition itself is written beautifully.  Boone has a great handle on the battle within  – human versus the remnant of darkness and the child becoming an adult.  There are other characters, including Rell’s lover and her biological family.Boone's writing is definite, her voice matter of fact; she uses an economy of words in description. IThe last book featured Rell’s sister and her lover, a dragon shifter, both play important parts  here but Rell and her beau, Siban, play the biggest roles.And in that relationship we find another struggle, that age old struggle between men and women, protective impulses and autonomy.