Review: Better than the last 2 Shadowlands
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
I was starting to despair that the author had lost her way, but this book makes me think she can find her way back to excellence.  I was not a fan of Dark Haven - the prior two books felt like plastic rip offs of Shadowlands.  But this one actually has a plot in addition to the formulaic "Dom with prior relationship issues meets sub with issues which cause some conflict but eventually resolve themselves in love" that dominates the  author's novels.  Both the H and h were well drawn, and the sex scenes are great, as usual.I think the need to draw characters in from prior novels/other series is getting distracting. (I find this an issue with Shadowlands, too). It takes time to set them up, they are never as well depicted as they are in their own stories, and so it takes focus away from the characters we should care most about.