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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
I am usually steering away from a standalone, especially those like this one that is part of a larger installment that covers an entire world on its own. It usually requires too much emotional involvement on my part to root for every character that will have at some point their own POVs.
However, I am making an exception from this rule of mine for authors like [a:Kresley Cole|4428|Kresley Cole|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1328377628p2/4428.jpg] or [a:Nalini Singh|71688|Nalini Singh|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1423312512p2/71688.jpg] who write almost all the time certified bangers. So, usually, when I find myself in a crisis of something sweet and well-written I come back to one of their books.
I chose Munro because it was still making a splash one year away from its initial release, so it had to be something special.
Indeed, it did not disappoint.
The romance part was on point, and the plot line regarding the adventures they had to go through was engaging. The only issue that I might have had with it is a more personal one, that is the fact that the female protagonist was from “Transylvania”—meaning Romania, and the author insisted for her to have lines in Romanian.
As a Romanian speaker, this book was a serious roller coaster: in a funny-cringey way.
I`ll give an example:
“Ah, you want me to be polite to my abductor. Be nice to you.” Voice a throaty purr, she said, “Should I cower for you, dragul meu? Will that make you feel strong?”
dragul meu is in Romanian. My immediate reaction when reading it, in this context was burn my eyes :))
The usage is just not there. As a native, I would not have picked this one from a list of other ten variants this one would have been the last. It is a bit too formal for this context and a bit too Cornish but not in the desired way—plus I was reading it in my head with the American accent and it was making things 100% worse.
But this was, overall, a very well-written book. I congratulate this author, once again, for being able to deliver such fine works of paranormal romance. I can say that I also appreciate her integration of the Romanian language, even though I cringed the entire book, I do appreciate the attempt. Thank you.
Ich dachte mir nur noch WTH geht hier vor.
Aber jetzt erstmal zu Munro und seiner Angebeteten. Über Munros verbleib konnte man ja auch nur rätseln, da man hier schon vor ein paar Bändern vorher wusste das ihm was passiert ist.
Die Handlung ist spannend gemacht, obwohl ich so Zeitachsen nicht mag, ich habe immer das Gefühl das paßt alles nie so recht.
Munro wurde schon vor langer Zeit prophezeit das seine Gefährtin eine Xanthippe ist. Das kam mit Kereny sehr gut hin. Ein wenig störrisch war die Gute, bis sie das mit der Vergangenheit verstanden hat. Aber auch so war es manchmal ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen mit ihr.
Sie war nicht unsympathisch, im Gegenteil, nur manchmal was etwas anstrengend mit ihr gewesen. Aber sonst wäre die Geschichte wohl schneller aus.
Von Munro war ich hin und we als Charakter, klar ein wenig herrisch der Gte, aber so ist das mit den Lykae. Ich mag die Art der Lykae, da sie zwar sehr beschützerisch sind, aber auch sehr liebevoll und aufmerksam.
Die Handlung an sich hat mir gut gefallen, zumal auch andere Charakter hier mit eine Rolle gespielt haben.
Auf Grund des Epilogs bleibt es weiterhin spannend. Und ich ich hoffe das bald Nachschub kommt.
Munro has many elements that will work for fans of the series but to be honest I am kind of exhausted with these type of heroines that are so prickly and unrelatable and always trying to kill their men *covers face* I know this will really win over some readers but I feel like many of the heroines in this series all feel the same to me. And it's also possible the narrator just ruined the book for me since I just couldn't get behind the heroine at all. She just was so rough around the edges and so hard and not very likeable for me. There were also some plot holes in the story that I didn't expect to bother me but rubbed me the wrong way. I loved finally getting to know Munro's book but it also felt like something was missing here. There are aspects of time travel in this one which was a bit confusing in how it developed the plotline. There is some wonderful aspects of action and thrilling moments that will keep you on edge of course. This author has always been able to build intensity throughout her books. So I really appreciated some aspects of how the world building and atmospheric vibes were developed throughout the story.
But overall, while this book was a solid read, it didn't quite work for me all of the way through and would have appreciated the heroine being better developed.