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Title: Stock characters, not engaging, and formulaic plot
Review: I love Nora Roberts, I love paranormals and I love romances. I do not love this book. It's like NR reached in a grab-bag of paranormal creatures for her characters - or charicatures, really. One vampire, one sorcerer, one Wiccan witch, one demon-hunter, one shapeshifter, and one "King Arthur" like queen. Rinse, stir, repeat. None of the characters engaged my imagination and the story and romance was rushed. NR then mixes up Christianity with Celtic religion for a mash-up of neither. I never thought I'd read a Nora Roberts that I didn't love, let alone one I actively dislike, but this is it. I don't know if it's because it's her entry into more mainstream fantasy, but the book ends up trying for so much but succeding in nothing. Save your money and buy one of her other books or other paranormal or paranormal romance authors (Lilith Saintcrow, Kim Harrison, Charlaine Harris, Carrie Vaughn, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Biggs).
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