Blaize has just finished her first chakra trial and is an
adept for fire – Manipura – and is now moving on to train her secondar chakra,
Ajna, with renowned dream walker and prophet, Cuinn
However, Cuinn has had a terrible history with his
previous adherent and is definitely not ready for another one. Especially since
his dreams have been hinting at a terrible future he needs to uncover. The last
thing he needs is an adherent under his feet
But Blaize may be an important part of the prophecy – and
their enemies seem to think so when they target her.
This book is, firstly, a paranormal romance, it was how
it was marketed and labelled. And that normally makes me look at the people who
sent me this book and asking them if they’ve made any effort to examine Fangs
because, in all honestly, we’re not a big fan of many of the paranormal romance
we read
But I liked this book
The story works extremely well in addition to the
romance. Yes, there’s a romance there, but there’s plot there that exists above and beyond the
romance. I have found a lot of paranormal romances have a plot line in addition
to the romance, but it often exists just to further the romance – and you can
tell. It’s generally shallow, under-developed and with plot holes you could
drive a double decker bus through. Here the plot and the romance weren’t
co-dependent on each other (which, when we think about it, makes a lot of
sense. Romance may be important to the character, but it’s unlikely their love
life is really going to have that much influence on the fate of the world etc.
No, not even with the earth shattering orgasms).
There were some clichés to the romance I didn’t care for,
or I’ve just seen so many times that I just don’t have patience for them any more.
Both characters have past issues that make them reluctant to venture into a
relationship (both of which are a little dubious). Both have tragic or
semi-tragic pasts. Both get over said tragic pasts in such an unseemly length
of time that I’m left wondering why the author felt the need to have them there
at all. It’s like someone looked up a trope list and decided “hey, we need to
have X, Y, and Z, put them in”. And, really, if you’re going to give your
characters a compelling developed reason why they avoid relationships… fine –
but actually have them avoid relationships. If it takes them 3 days to resolve
these terribad issues before getting to the humping then maybe those issues
shouldn’t be there
