Review: Please give us a woman with gumption!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2011
Second in the series -- Gosh, I hope it's not only a trilogy. I really like the kindred mythology, and find myself very curious what Kindred-Earthling hybrids will be like. That tells me the author has crafted a compelling alternate culture.Sylvan is a really fine hero -- hot, honorable, gentle, yet capable of the most extreme aggression to protect his own. And the sex scenes are very, very erotic, as always.Sophie, alas, is another of the pathetic, whiny -- actually, sniveling is a better description -- heroines, and I am really getting tired of that. She pretty much cost the missing star. The kindred males deserve women with real guts and intelligence! I sure hope Kat doesn't turn into a complaining self-absorbed whiner.My other little quibbles have to do with some corner-cutting in crafting the reality and some of the characters -- and only because it is so well done on the whole that the glitches stuck out and annoyed me. I found myself thinking several times that the author needed just a little more balls -- that she took the easy out or jotted in the shorthand version.  Hey, the Kindred are at war -- there isn't going to be any military involvement when Sophie and Sylvan crash while the Scourge are blanketing Earth? Really, everyone will wait till the next morning and let the family handle it informally? I think not. And the Scourge son -- there was potential for a fascinating conflicted character, but he comes across almost pathetic instead of a man struggling with his heritage yet still dangerous.Despite my quibbles I greatly enjoyed the book and will doubtless read it again.