Review: Nothing Redeemable Here
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 26, 2013
This installment in the Assassin/Shifter series has so many strikes against it there's really nothing redeemable to recommend to newbies or long-time fans of the series.  Where to start...the plot is a rehash of the "General's Lover", the overly sweet emoting from the two main characters is stomach-churning on some pages, events are thrown at the reader in a rush (some with no explanation at all...i.e. are Wayne's parents ghost or what?), and all of this is done in the service to author's actual (and very flawed) agenda.  That agenda being to introduce a score of new character whom she can pair up and marry off (in equally uninteresting story lines) in future books.I'm really trying to keep with series to the end.  I've even begun to rationalize my continued reading by thinking of these book in terms of a weekly television series.  Not every episode is going to be a winner.  But hopefully the overall story will pan out, and the sum will be greater than the parts.  However, I sincerely hope the author plans to mix things up in future books (I see that book 17 is in the works).  She's given readers no reason to stick with her since the plots are the same throughout...only the two main characters change from book to book.I do give the author credit for including (what could have been a very interesting) action sequence in this installment.  Most of the action in this series has thus far been relegated to the "assassin-focused" books.  As a result, the assassin books are much more interesting to read than the shifter books.  But again, even the action in "Irish Wishes" exist to serve up more character in this ever-expanding (oh so gay) universe of impossibly good-looking men.There's nothing of value here, and I'd recommend skipping this book.  However, if you do be prepared to be completely lost in terms of who's who going forward.