Emily

Finally, the plot is moving! I enjoyed this book much more than the last (Mistral's Kiss), and feel like there's actually going to be an ending to the series, not just an eternal batch of books revolving around Merry having sex! Although... (spoilers)








...having the babies have multiple fathers was a cop-out, rather than having to chose one man to be Merry's husband.

Although the heroine's initial passiveness annoyed me, her eventual transformation into a kick-ass female was so gradual that it was actually quite realistic. What WASN'T realistic is the night that she tried to run away, the hero came after her, they had sex, and then they were in love. She hated him before that. Not a good transition, but otherwise a good book.

This book made me laugh out loud, and that is an accomplishment. I greatly enjoyed Aisling's transformation from naive tourist/courier to vaguely competant Guardian, and her demon Jim was equally hilarious. On to the next book!

Read for my bookclub. It was okay, but the lack of a real ending sort of put me off. While it was supposed to be following the lives of the women, and obviously real lives have only one very definite ending (death), Landvik ended the novel with one character dying, but no real denouement.