Review: Interesting Idea -- But No Resolution
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 29, 2013
This book is described as being 414 pages, and it could have easily been reduced to 100 pages, were it not for the continual repetition. Every feeling and thought of the main characters, Mikhal the Merciless, a vampire and Alliana, the gypsy girl he marries, is hashed, rehashed, and rehashed again and again until the reader is ready to scream. Then after all that tedious reading, there is no resolution at the end, just instructions to buy the next book to find out what happens. Questions left unanswered are who lives or dies, whether the heroine ever believes her husband loves her, whether she has the baby, when it arrives, and what it is like (it is 1/2 human and 1/2 vampire), what happens to evil sister Marishka and her vampire lover, what happens to Alliana's friend Natalya, is something going to happen between her and Mikhal's first in command, Lucien, etc. etc. etc. By the way, there is a book 3, so while book 2 may offer resolution on some of these questions, I'm sure one will be required to buy book 3 to find out how the truly ends, unless there is a book 4 on the way.I would not recommend this book. No matter how much one tries to skim through the endless repetitions, it is too much of an investment in time to end up with a cliff-hanger at the end. Amazon should require authors to post a warning in the book description when the book is an incomplete story.