Review: A new group of characters to love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
I was looking forward to this book the minute RL announced she would have a new offering for her readers early this year.  I waited or should I say WE waited for her return after announcing a sabbatical to get her health issues in order. So it was a surprise to say the least when she made the announcement that she would have a book out this summer.If you decide to read this book please read her introduction since it really is part of the story of how and why she began to write in the first place and be aware that this is a paranormal book and not one of her NFH books.  It is meant to be different....to stretch the "writing chops" of the author.  Sometimes when you start to read one particular author the reader gets used to a certain style or a group of characters and of course because we love them we want more but for a writer I think they need to step back from those characters from time to time to try something else and test their craft.  This walk down a different path is good for the reader.  It makes us appreciate the characters from the other series that we know and love and look forward to the continuation their stories more when they are published.Now for the book- I enjoyed it very much.  It had characters that I liked not just tolerated.  Humor galore between the main characters and the ancillary characters that will take front row in later books.  It had a family theme through the whole 400 pages.  Yes, it was the first of the series so the fleshing out of the characters are necessary and understandable.  This was not a 200 page book where everything is either tied together with a nice bow by page 199 nor was it a cliffhanger as some authors are currently doing but it is well thought out and takes its time with the story.  As for all of RL works this one is a re-read.  There is always so much more going on in the first read that sometimes you have to go back and read it again after a few days of what I like to call "book digestion."  In the second read there is always something that was missed that makes the story even more thoughtful that was passed over the first time. I do not normally like reading paranormal but I would have to say that the first paranormal I ever read was RL's Pyte/Sentinel series and I loved it.  Now I am a little more open to reading books from the paranormal genre.I found Ms. Mathewson by accident about two years ago while fiddling in Amazon eBooks after receiving my Kindle for Christmas.  I took a chance on one of her first NFH book and LOVED it.  I quickly gobbled up all her other works in the months that followed.  I find her voice refreshing and new in a stagnant book world.