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2.0
This could have actually been really good had Amy not been one of the most too stupid to live heroines ever!! I should have known, the book basically opens up with Amy being a brat.
Oh and what a ridiculous villain!!
It wasn't terrible but it was just not great. Leone had the patience of a saint!
Oh and what a ridiculous villain!!
It wasn't terrible but it was just not great. Leone had the patience of a saint!
corrie's review
3.0
Finally I’ve read the first of the Garoul series. It has been languishing in my to-read pile for an obscene amount of time, but after enjoying Borage so much I decided to stay with McKnight for a bit longer.
So, Goldenseal left me a bit underwhelmed to be honest. I really had to work hard to find anything sympathetic about main character Leone. She was immature, secretive and pushy and the sex scenes between her and Amy made me feel uncomfortable because of the non-consensual nature of it. The whole Garoul clan was complicit in keeping poor Amy in the dark for most of the book and, as she herself pointed out, in doing so exposing her to considerable danger. Amy was a brave woman for staying in Little Dip.
I think this was probably my least favorite McKnight book so far. I am not super into the whole shaggy alpha wolfie shifter stuff, so that can be part of it. Also, McKnight wrote this 10 years ago and I miss the humor she put into her later work. But I read some of the reviews and the consensus is that it gets better, so I will certainly read Ambereye.
f/f explicit – Leone is a biter
Themes: Little Dip, hostile villagers, artist, cracking the code, family secrets, something evil lurks in the woods, where is aunt Connie, I didn’t care much for Leone, shifty librarian, Amy should have booked the next flight to London.
3.2 Stars
So, Goldenseal left me a bit underwhelmed to be honest. I really had to work hard to find anything sympathetic about main character Leone. She was immature, secretive and pushy and the sex scenes between her and Amy made me feel uncomfortable because of the non-consensual nature of it. The whole Garoul clan was complicit in keeping poor Amy in the dark for most of the book and, as she herself pointed out, in doing so exposing her to considerable danger. Amy was a brave woman for staying in Little Dip.
I think this was probably my least favorite McKnight book so far. I am not super into the whole shaggy alpha wolfie shifter stuff, so that can be part of it. Also, McKnight wrote this 10 years ago and I miss the humor she put into her later work. But I read some of the reviews and the consensus is that it gets better, so I will certainly read Ambereye.
f/f explicit – Leone is a biter
Themes: Little Dip, hostile villagers, artist, cracking the code, family secrets, something evil lurks in the woods, where is aunt Connie, I didn’t care much for Leone, shifty librarian, Amy should have booked the next flight to London.
3.2 Stars
hoosierreader's review
4.0
All families have secrets and the Garoul family has a more important secret than others. When Amy Fortune returns to her childhood home, she knows something is afoot. But she doesn't know what. A loved aunt terribly ill, but she can't see her. An ex-lover from her teen years, stalking her. A hidden code hidden in the drawings her loved aunt has been doing and she has been called home to finish. All these add up to the master of Little Dip, the Garoul home grounds. Wonderful descriptions of the valley.
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