Review: Too much time spent on side characters
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2012
I purchased this book happy to get a love story involving a member of the Scourge and I thought the fact that the heroine was a minority was also a nice way to mix things up (Lauren is half Black).I enjoyed Lauren and Xairn's story immensely but there was entirely too much time spent on the characters from the previous novels.  I know from reading reviews that a lot of customers have complained when in other series the previous characters seem to drop off the face of the earth when the next book comes out.  So I can appreciate the author's intent when allowing these characters to make an appearance in each successive novel.  But I think she went overboard.  There was so much time spent on these side characters that it detracted from my enjoyment of this book. I was reading this book to see how Lauren and Xairn's love developed.  Nadiah and Rast were not characters that I cared very much about yet and shoving them down my throat in this manner only heightened my disinterest to the point where I have no intention of reading their story.I liked that this author offered such long books (for a paranormal romance) at such a reasonable price but the girth of her novels seems to stem from spending a lot of time on side characters.  It worked for "Captive" and "Hunted" and she exercised more restraint in "Sought" but "Found" was too much.  I found myself skimming when, yet again, the story shifted focus to a side character (which was almost every other chapter).  Sophie and Kat have already had their chance to be the heroine and Nadiah's book is next; so was it really necessary to spend THAT much time on them?I think Olivia was the only side character who appeared in this book as she should have - minimally.I'd give this book 5 stars for Lauren and Xairn's story but I had to take 2 away for all of the side character filler.