Review: 3.5 stars for this teaser, rounded up to encourage reading it before "City of Jasmine"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
I rarely give short teasers like this more than 3 stars, but it IS well written, and it does add something to the experience of reading CoJ to have seen Evie and Gabriel in the giddy, impulsive delight of their first meeting and elopement. However, it is NOT able to stand on its own, with heavy, unresolved foreshadowing of the covert operations that will cruelly divide them. But at least Ms. Raybourn is not pretending otherwise -- she's giving it away free, so go ahead and grab it!I'm part-way through CoJ right now, and just re-encountered Gabriel. So far, I like Evie better than I do/did Delilah (of "A Spear of Summer Grass"), although they share the irresponsible tendency to try to ignore unpayable bills. N.B. It was sad to see Delilah here with Johnny (Did I get both their names right? I'm terrible w/names!), before her beloved young husband goes off to die in the war.