Review: If you haven't read anything by this author yet, you're in for a treat
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2010
What a lovely read by an incredibly talented writer.  I'm not going to describe the story as it has already been well reviewed in other posts.  It was such a treat to find another 5-star erotic romance author who can weave fantasy as well as Terry Brooks or RA Salvatore.  The story was rich in the telling, sumptuous in atmosphere, and filled with delicious three-dimensional characters.  I cannot wait to read the next in the series and get back to Arcadia.I'm about 76% into her first book "Heat" (not part of this series).  It is an ambitious and huge undertaking.  While it's classified as an erotic romance novel, I would heartily disagree and say it is more sci-fi/horror with lots of sex, eroticism, torture, forced and coerced sex, and violence.  That said, there's a touching love store right smack in the middle of the insanity.  It's very, very compelling, but NOT for the mainstream romance reader.  I will probably also rate it 5 stars when I'm done.BTW, R Lee Smith is Robin Smith... a really great author who is working on a book called Olivia that is targeted for publication sometime in Oct 2010.