Review: First Story For The Kraken King
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
Well to start with I read this story in the earlier anthologyBurning Up (Berkley Sensation)after the author suggested it as a way for me to decide if I want to read the series.Mission accomplished, it was amazingly good and the right amount of most everything, action, passion, a bit of humor and I don't know how it could have been much better.The relationship between Ivy and "Mad Machen" was great, there was no "MINE!" moment that is so popular in a lot of PNR novels, it was a slow building romance (since she kinda hated him to start with it HAD to be slow) and it was timed almost perfectly.  (you will love the "shootout" in the bar)The action parts were done well and not overdone, the thing that had most concerned me was the need (or lack thereof) to have read the Iron Seas books, I am pleased to say it is not required, probably would have made a few things clearer but there are more than enough mentions of things to feed you any needed background.I think I will be signing up forThe Kraken King Part I: The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster (A Novel of the Iron Seas)very soon .