Review: Great fantasy read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2012
I read the second book in this series, "Transit of Ishtar," first. After finishing that book, while I enjoyed it, I felt like my understanding of the series might be better enhanced by reading the first one so I clicked right over, bought it and read it in one sitting.On the surface this book is a very well written romance novel. Gibson weaves a magical world, the depth of which isn't realized until the second novel. The story focuses on a coven of witches and the main characters are Maeve, who is a matchmaking witch, and Nathalia, a telepath.Maeve meets Aaron, to whom she's immediately attracted but it's complicated because she doesn't believe she's ever supposed to find love and he's one of the Family, a grandson of heaven. She's the Good Luck Chuck of the witching world, sleep with her and you'll find your mate. The Council orders her to sleep with Aaron. The complication is that she loves Aaron and seeing him with someone else will just kill her. In the meantime, Michael, Nathalia's childhood sweetheart (who killed her parents) is trailing Nathalia and targeting Maeve's matches to taunt her.I really enjoyed this novel a lot. I found Gibson's writing style flowed well and the story was interesting. There is a lot of sex but probably not any more than you'd find in a Barry Eisler novel.  The baddie is sexually violent but maybe it speaks to me as a reader that I read it more as violence than sex and this will hold true of the second novel in the series.Definitely a must read if you like romance novels or are into fantasy fiction.