Review: A beautiful and perfect way to wrap up the Charity Series!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 10, 2013
DeAnna Kinney is a master of her craft. Raven's Rose is a beautiful and perfect way to wrap up the Charity Series. I completely fell in love and am so happy that I got to be a beta reader for this book!! The fun thing about getting to know authors a little better by being a loyal fan, is that sometimes things about you get put into their story. Last time it was my name in Exposing Kitty Langley, and this time my husband and my mother's names show up as characters in Wesley's story, as well as my quirky addiction to stuffed animals. Have I mentioned how much I love you DeAnna Kinney?! Well its LOTS!! Raven's Rose is a unique novel, combining three short stories that give happily ever afters to the other characters we came to love, and sometimes hate, in the other Charity Series books. It is a completely wonderful way to end the series and I commend DeAnna for coming up with the idea to end it this way.The first part of the book is Raven's story and its a tale of forbidden love and second chances. I absolutely loved Raven because he has been through so much in his life but he knew he'd be whole again the minute he laid eyes on Rose. The chemistry between them is magnetic and completely undeniable. The forbidden love comes into play because Raven is a vampire and Rose is a werewolf, but neither of them cares for even one second about any of that. But Raven's family is still looking for him and they will stop at nothing to punish him for helping the werewolves, and this is where the suspense kicks up. I won't say more, as to not give anything away, but this was a story I could not put down. Charity and Levi are big parts of all of the stories, but they are not the focus, as this book is about the other main characters finding their happiness. The next story is Eli's, and in it he travels a grief-stricken journey to reach his Destiny. I was so happy that we were getting to see Eli's story because he's Levi's twin and it was nice to see him finding love. I really loved the whole beginning of this story as he finds Shae, and their meetings in the woods just stole my heart. But his path is a tough one and my heart hurt for him on many occasions. His strength through it all is really wonderful and I was glad that Charity and Levi had become such a great support system to him. I loved Shae and the twist with Destiny so much, it really added that extra something special. The last story is that of Wesley and Hope. This was my favorite one because this is where my stuffed animal addiction is mentioned as well as my husband and my mother's names. Wesley gets stuck babysitting another pack leader's daughter and in doing so he finds hope and happiness. I was really glad we got to see things from his perspective because it made it easier to love him after all he had done in the past. Hope was awesome because she was feisty and funny. Both Wesley and Hope are damaged souls which causes them to butt heads, but through each other they find love and someone who will always put them first. The ending was beautiful and again gave just one more beautiful moment for Charity and Levi.As you can tell, I loved the Charity Series, and Raven's Rose was just the icing on the cake. I couldn't have asked for a better way to end the series because we got closure for all the characters we had come to love, and even a little more about Charity and Levi. Thank you DeAnna, for putting all the little things in there for me to smile at, and for allowing me to beta this wonderful book!! I cannot wait for the next in the Lavender series!!