Review: Lots of fresh new ideas!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2014
I found the world building in both stories to be very intriguing, although the second story was really just a snippet and we were only given a fleeting glimpse of a world I would love to read more about. (M/M in this one) I liked it a bit better than the first story actually and I hope Leigh will be writing a longer story about these characters.Leigh has a wonderful imagination! Let's just put that out there first of all. I think she tried putting a bit too much into such short stories but I have to commend her for the shear breadth of the worlds she is building. It's going to be very interesting to see where she goes with the characters in both stories. I will however, be waiting until she finishes writing them all and they are compiled in a bundle as I dislike reading serial stories with cliffhangers. The cliffhanger at the end of the first story wasn't as horrible as cliffhangers usually are. The MCs did have a satisfactory HFN ending after all. Most of the secondary characters were quite well fleshed out and I would like to see where they are headed. The second story didn't actually have an ending, it just stops.The first story has so much in it, including many more folklore based characters than just the usual werewolves and vampires. The world of these people is accessed through portals that certain people can open and the world is based on our world so things like buildings in cities line up in unusual ways. You aren't quite sure just who the bad guys are and even by the end of the story there is some confusion about just who the bad guys ultimately are. There isn't a lot more I can say without adding spoilers.The points of the story that need work; there is so much information that it can be a bit confusing at times; the sex scenes themselves are quite steamy, but sometimes start rather abruptly; sometimes the dialog flowed well and others it seems rather forced; there were a lot of unanswered questions that I hope will be addressed in the next book.Because of these I couldn't quite give it 4 stars, in fact if the ideas and characters weren't so fabulous I might have only given it 2 stars because I found parts of the story to be irritating, but the fact is that I really liked the storyline and the characters a lot so I will be reading more in this series to see what happens to them.In short, if you are easily confused and/or irritated, you might want to give this book a miss. However, if you can deal with that, this book will get your imagination revved up. Finding so many different ideas in one place can be both challenging and exhilarating.