**I received this book in exchange for an honest
review (LoP or Lovers of Paranormal) Goodreads.com**
Wow, what an awesome book, I was hooked from the
very beginning. It was brilliantly introducing a brand new paranormal world
fairly similar to ours and characters we can love. It was excellently written
giving the perfect blend of description and storyline that is needed for a
first in the series book.
The main characters were Emily and Darian I thought
the main characters were brilliant together with one of them offering
personality traits which the other friend's possess giving us a wide range of
likeable traits. I loved the sparks and conflict that goes on between them
before they fall in love but I found the parts of the story when they were in
love equally entertaining. I found the relationship between Emily's family and
Darian to be an interesting addition to the story between the two of them
however I felt it could have been used more in order to create more sparring
moments between the two of them. I also thought Darian's brothers reaction to
Emily very refreshing however ultimately a bit odd since Darian's hatred for
Emily is so huge.
The secondary characters that I feel noteworthy
include Maggie, Damon, Christian, Mary and Beth. Maggie is a bad guy in hugely
embedded in this story, she is the sister of the rival family to Darian's who
puts herself in Emily's life in order to gain her trust- I loved Maggie as a
bad guy, I find her slippery and hard to pin down in that I can't for the life
of me figure out if she's going to hurt Mary (Emily's mother) or Mike (Emily's
friend). Damon is one of Darian's brothers who is not present for all of the
book however I liked how he is the one to take on most of the responsibility to
find the rival family. Christian is another of Darian's brothers who is there
for a lot of the story- so much that I thought he was going to be the person
Emily ended up with. Mary is Emily's mother, I liked this character as she
stood by her beliefs until she was proven wrong, then she was willing to accept
that she was wrong and she continued to support Emily throughout the book.
The pacing was good giving us enough time to get to
know the characters before introducing them to each other in a new surrounding.
I also liked how the story progressed and that the big face off between the
waring family's didn't happen in the last chapter- therefore causing it to be
squished and not as climatic as it deserved to be.
The storyline was brilliantly original and offered
a wide range of characters to fall in love with as well as a new paranormal
species and a new fairy tale worthy surrounding. I thought the book was
brilliantly planned having everything fall into place perfectly and spacing it
out as to keep the reader interested right until the last page.
4 stars a great read and a series/ author I will
look out for in the future.
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