Review: Well-Written Urban Fantasy/Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
If you enjoy a good urban fantasy, or post-apocalyptic romance, then you’ll love this book.  The story contains explicit consensual sex, but very little violence.  It is very well written and an easy and entertaining read.  The reader is thrown straight into the deep end as the narrative opens after the world as we know it has ended.  The plot is fast paced, but not overly so.The book is approximately 305 pages in length, and is an easy read.  The characters are well developed and real.  The point of view is from that of the main protagonist, and is consistent throughout.  There are one or two incorrectly used words, and one word overused to the point of becoming conspicuous, but otherwise these are too few to really affect the read.  Ordinarily, a narrative using sentences predominantly beginning with ‘ing’ ending words would lose a lot of brownie points, as that’s one of the ‘should only use rarely’ formulations in the editing world.  However, as a Buddhist teacher once said: ‘If you’re going to sin then sin fully, you may as well make it count.’  Well, Ms Gimpel breaks this particular rule magnificently, and gets away with it.  I didn’t feel distanced from the action or the people at all, and felt it was a smooth read. The proofreading has been done to a very high standard. The ending is left open ready for a sequel, but not so much so the reader feels as though they’re left dangling off a cliff.A good length book with a lot of sex, romance, and very minor violence.  This fits equally well into urban fantasy (aka the Celtic Gods) and post-apocalyptic drama/romance.  If you like a good strong heroine then you’ll love Aislinn.  I found this an enjoyable and easy read.  Four out of Five Stars from me.  With some adjustments to the narrative, I could see myself upgrading this to five stars.