After reading the intention and desires of the author after
the book, I understand the basis in forming the characters of the story but
felt she fell short of her goals. The seed of the story has a good hold in the
love/vengeance/hero paranormal category, but the characters are unbelievable
and the plot up in the air.
The story begins with Daniel who was the victim of abuse by
his father and lover-a great attention grabbing start. However his character
then morphs into the hero/whiner/coward/hero/victim/hero/aggressor and the
rapid cycling is hard to keep up with or believe. Then enters his adopted
family (wolf shifters) and best friend. The wolves' manner of speaking doesn't
ring true-far too upper class gentry and the molly coddling that takes place
seems unrealistic. Then we get to meet Dr Aiden Kavanagh-a sandman whose days
on earth on are numbered unless he can find his keeper and soulmate to bind
him. Again-a bit of a fluffy character.
The pace of the story was slow until the final battle-then
poof-if you blinked you missed one of pretty much the most important scenes.
The "Land of Dreams"-bit immature. And then there were the sex
scenes-I am definitely not a prude when it comes to a story needing these, but
to have so many and in such graphic terms-there was nothing in the bio to
prepare me for them-seemed to take up more than the important parts of the
story. Using words like susurrus and fulgent and then following them with clichés- "drooling
with anticipation" and "thinking about your melons"? Just no.
Also if you are going to go to the trouble of using words like coimeádai to
keep the authentic tone then use crêpe and not crape.
So two questions (spoiler alert)-why at the beginning of the
book does Aiden say that Keith is in no way his blood brother or even a brother
like Conner when at the end he mourns (or rejoices) over getting an adopted
family which will be closer than the "biological" brother he knew
(Keith)? And the tattoo he receives as the keeper's mark-DTK? His name is
Daniel Michael Tolliver-does it stand for Daniel The Keeper?
An average debut for the author but the stories and
characters need a lot more work and the editor needs to catch the verb tenses
that don't always correspond.
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