Review: Interesting concept!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2013
Journalist Ambrosia Pellerin accepts an assignment involving the legendary phoenix, expecting, if nothing else, a little entertainment. Instead, she gets pregnant—by a surprisingly human-looking firebird, Reece Bennu.Ambrosia and Reece struggle to make the best of their predicament, igniting a tentative romance despite Reece’s furious and powerful relatives who resent the mixed-blood child, a violent human out to prove the existence of phoenixes at any cost, and Ambrosia’s forced separation from her family and isolation in her new home.Reece’s relatives plot murder while Ambrosia’s family faces a dire medical situation and ask her to return. Will the couple survive when Reece denies Ambrosia his trust and her freedom when she needs both more than anything?Review:It must be hard to come up with new and inventive stories, but Ms.Gilman sure did with this one.  I don't think I have read a story about a Phoenix before and I really enjoyed it.Ambrosia is a reporter who after being knocked out while on assignment comes across Reece in the middle of the desert.  Reece helps her and tries to send her away quickly, it does not work and Ambrosia is there when the building explodes and unbeknownst to her Reece is reborn.  In a interesting twist fertile woman can get pregnant from the ashes of the phoenix; which is what happens to Ambrosia.  Now, Reece is "back from dead" and at her door saying he needs to protect her from the man who hurt her in the desert and explain what he is.  Now, I think the part where he protecting her and the "bad guy" were kind of glossed over and somewhat unfinished.  Yes, he destroys the guys evidence of Phoenix's but if the guy was that much into finding the truth wouldn't he just start over and try to pursue them?  So, Reece uproots Amby and tells her she will be looked down on because she is human and not pure blooded, that pissed me off and I think she should have been a little stronger with Reece about it.  The longer they are together the stronger their feelings grow, as well as Reece's grandmother, who is pretty much a racist.  Grandmother does some terrible things in the name of an untainted blood line, which sends Amby running.  But you know Reece goes running after her once he has his grandmother taken care of and they have their HEA.A great inventive storyline that kept me entertained and entranced until the very end.3.5 stars