Review: Mindless, slightly juvenile
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2013
I've read all Blood Destiny,Ir'indicti and High Demon book. The author is prolific and although she is starting to creep her prices upward, still reasonably priced. The books are generally fast, fun, very mindless reads.This book could be viewed as a juvenile teen fantasy, but sex makes it very age inappropriate.  The series writing tends to be repetitive.  Lonely woman feeling sorry for herself is  somehow irresistible to males, a gourmet cook  and marries multiple hunks.  The "hunks" act very immaturely (which is kind of hard to believe for mates often supposedly thousands of years old) treating her badly (does the author have a history we should know about?). Only the heroine can defeat the evil that threatens.  The heroine discovers even more powers, finds a few more mates to jump into bed with, cooks a few "delicious" meals and saves the world.  Her mates then rediscover how wonderful she is and crawl back begging her forgiveness.  Occasionally a god intervenes if things get too tangled up and author can't other wise straighten out the mess she has created.  The Ir'indicti series differs because of a male hero who essentially gets no mates and seems to be ultimately rejected by those mates he desires.  Doesn't seem fair for the males, but author is female.The story is predictable.  The female heroines are terrible role models for young teens because of their blatant jumping into multiple beds, their casual killing of bystanders and villeins without trials, and their stereotype of a woman's worth being partly defined as a great cook.  Too many side descriptions of sauces and main course dishes also detracts.The redeeming points are:The book is inexpensiveThe book is very fast readFor those reasons I continue to read the series as fun escapism.  If you want to kill a few hours, go for it. But be prepared to occasionally be frustrated with idiotic characters.