Review: Lovable Ral
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
Loved, loved, loved the first half of the book. Ral is fierce, brave, clever and gallant. What more could one ask for in a hero? Our heroine is also brave as well as practical and wise. Eminently likable.Sadly, Ral seems to......regress once he returned home and becomes disappointingly juvenile at times. Threatening his father with "I'll leave and you'll never see me again!" sounded an awful lot like a young child threatening a parent with "I'm gonna run away from home and you'll never see me again". Also, Ral is no longer his own man once he's home. Being manipulated by his father reduces Ral from the take-charge character we loved in the first half to that of a child/victim.Lastly, what's up with giving the characters so many challenges? How about just giving them one or two to work through? More is not always more.Ral's Woman showed all the potential to be a GREAT read. Sadly the author decided to change Ral's character and add too much chaos, thus making it only a good read. But, it's still good.