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rachelp's review
2.0
I won this book on a different website. It didn't show the cover and the description sounded like sci-fi. The author mailed me this book, along with another one of her books, both autographed. Which was very nice. But I was immediately turned off when I saw the cover and realized that this was a romance novel. Not really my style.
So. It was okay. The story was kind of cool, but could have been developed better (although this might be an unfair statement since I did not read the first two books in the series). The whole thing had a sort of cheesy feel to it. Also, there were some biblical parallels being drawn, which seemed misplaced to me. Really, this took up over half the book, with Christ's (Edan's) temptation in the desert and God's (the Cygirians') creation of a planet and all the living things on the planet.
Perhaps if I were more into romance novels and biblical allusions I would have enjoyed this book more.
So. It was okay. The story was kind of cool, but could have been developed better (although this might be an unfair statement since I did not read the first two books in the series). The whole thing had a sort of cheesy feel to it. Also, there were some biblical parallels being drawn, which seemed misplaced to me. Really, this took up over half the book, with Christ's (Edan's) temptation in the desert and God's (the Cygirians') creation of a planet and all the living things on the planet.
Perhaps if I were more into romance novels and biblical allusions I would have enjoyed this book more.
inlibrisveritas's review
3.0
I'm not terribly familiar with most romance novels, but I found this one to be quite interesting. This is the third book in the Being Trilogy, but from what I can tell you don't have to read the others to understand what all is going on. I had no trouble picking this up and reading it without having previously read the other two. Though I'm sure the others have more back story for this and I'm thinking about going and picking them up so I can see.
I thought that concept of the pairings of the couples to be really interesting, and liked the fact that they would compliment each other in someway involving their powers. Ava, the main character, is a strong and intelligent woman who I didn't find annoying...so a lot of points there considering most women in romance novels have a tendency to be complete push overs. I also liked Edan a fair amount because he wasn't a macho man who had to be touch about everything.And their relationship was really nice and fulfilling. One thing I noticed were some parallels or derivatives from other places like the Christian creation story.
The storyline outside of the romance was pretty interesting as well, though I wish I had read the other two first so I can see how it got to that point and so on. But I understood it pretty well without that. Plus the writing was really enjoyable to read.
I do recommend this to those who really enjoy romance with a sci-fi take, mainly adults.
I thought that concept of the pairings of the couples to be really interesting, and liked the fact that they would compliment each other in someway involving their powers. Ava, the main character, is a strong and intelligent woman who I didn't find annoying...so a lot of points there considering most women in romance novels have a tendency to be complete push overs. I also liked Edan a fair amount because he wasn't a macho man who had to be touch about everything.And their relationship was really nice and fulfilling. One thing I noticed were some parallels or derivatives from other places like the Christian creation story.
The storyline outside of the romance was pretty interesting as well, though I wish I had read the other two first so I can see how it got to that point and so on. But I understood it pretty well without that. Plus the writing was really enjoyable to read.
I do recommend this to those who really enjoy romance with a sci-fi take, mainly adults.
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