Eidolon

The story and the romance are great, don't get me wrong, but the story telling is just not it. What should be the climax of the book is rushed through and there's no sense of satisfaction. Secmis is taken down in less than a page? The entirety of the hull galla are wiped in a chapter? The other 300 pages are just Ildiko worrying about the food larders and not being about to have a Kai baby and the almost, but not really romance between Kirgipa and Neco as they take 3/4 of the book to get the baby queen to Ildiko. This book series really needs an editor to force the author to flesh out the climactic bits. I still love Brishen and Ildiko so I'm going to finish the series, but probably not anytime soon.

Such a good little series!! Great characters, romance and story line. I could have actually done with both books being longer and more fleshed out but still really enjoyed them as they were.

I know the series continues but feel like the first 2 books tie up nicely so could easily be read as a duology.

I have no words right now. I live for Ildiko and Brishen's relationship. This book was very different from Radiance in that in Radiance the conflict was very much external and applied to the couple, whereas Eidolon, while it had external conflict, also had more internal conflict between Brishen and Ildiko. It was still so good though!