kewlkat70's Reviews (250)

Even though I waited months for this book it was so boring I couldn't get through it

Just got boring and while it was dirty and unhinged I admit i am tired of Brooklyn's freakouts everytime she is confronted. 

The clecanian series is so Deliciously good.  

Sometimes you gotta appreciate the abducted by aliens and fated mates tropes when they are written so well. 

While in the foreground there is this fun romantic adventure story with real life characters, there has been a build up of a world and a back story that keeps growing with each subsequent novel.  

The backstory is starting to take up more of plot but that's just fine. 

The only problem I find is that the characters are so lovely I want a bit more of them in each novel.  

I read a book about cheese shifters and it was ... Cheesy

This series was a surprise and a well deserved 5⭐ epic fantasy series. 

Its too bad this series is shelved as a reverse harem romantic fantasy because it has all the elements of a well crafted mainstream epic fantasy series. 

The main selling point for me was how well the story was plotted out across the 7 novels.  Multiple storylines that twist around each other to allow the reader to feel connected to the FMCs found family as she grows and matures.  

I suppose the overriding theme in this book is how love shows up in all sorts of ways.  Brothers and husbands and fathers and mothers and children and friends and how they show up in our lives.   That family occurs even if it's not blood relations and that blood does not determine family.  

All the good fantasy themes are here:  good vs evil.  Magic.  Dragons.  Road brothers.  Melee and combat. Political manoeuvring. Gods and supernatural journeys.  Premature deaths.  Epic battles.  

The spice level is low but enough to keep it fun.  In a novel with so much action and storyline it's not missed.  

The journey to the end has some heart wrenching moments.  Tears were shed.  

Mave, the FMC is everything you could as for as a strong protagonist.  This is a chosen one storyline as many fantasies are but she is put through many trials and tribulations before she takes on the mantle of all powerful.  So the sacrifices are real.  She doesn't learn all in a magical epiphany. 

One thing that is rare in romantasy books is realistic combat.  Just like the narrative has been carefully plotted out so each novel feels balanced and evenly paced, the characters that work together (the FMC and her found family and friends) are a balanced band of fighters.   Fighters, rogues, rangers , magic users even a cleric/priest type of character.  Even the fighter characters are different flavours with a mix of skills and styles. 

All together the series never slows down but the different threads are introduced and resolved in timely manners so we don't feel that endings are rushed or stories dropped without being resolved.  A problem in many epic or longer series. 

Usually as you get to the penultimate book in a long series the stories starts to peter out as threads are being tied up. 

But this book had me crying qnd celebrating and OMG so much more to go. 

This was a reread but first time in audio.  Wasn't crazy about the narrator and then my library loan period finished and I just don't think I'll get back to it.