Review: Bittersweet yet wonderful entry for Jin and Logan!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2012
Honored Vow has to be my favourite of the Change of Heart series books by Mary Calmes. I loved Change of Heart and thought Trusted Bond was even better but she has truly outdone herself with the latest in the Jin and Logan saga!I do feel a need to post a warning though, this book has some very brutal scenes. Mary's books often have some mix of violence but this one includes skinning, beatings, dismemberment, and near rape. That having been said, the story is so much more than the warning. This book picks up where Trusted Bond ended except in this case Logan is being forced to honour a barbaric tradition where Samels all over the world are hand chosen to fight, destroying the other samels and their yarehas, to take the place of the current (and disgustingly corrupt) Samel-atan. Honored Vow is centered completely around the trials and combat of the tradition, as well as the corruption of the Samel-atan.Crane's castration at his own fathers hand was devastating! Yuri finally finds love and does `some one else' (nope, not telling who). Oh, and we find out that there is one other Reah alive, though she is NOTHING like Jin -sadly. The bittersweet ending though left me torn between crying with joy and crying with devastation. Let's just say the family is restructured greatly, though it leaves things open for a whole new set of stories that are intertwined yet self-sufficient.Honored Vow is engaging, fast paced, hot yet sad and terrifying all at the same time. Few authors can pull so many emotions at ones and make it something that you devour in one sitting yet Mary Calmes manages it, again. I truly hope that there will be more books in this series (pleasepleaseplease . . .)If you love shifter/were stories, especially M/M ones, you can do no better than to read the entire Change of Heart series, especially Honored Vow (must read in order).