serpentskirtt 's review for:

Knight Awakened by Coreene Callahan

4.0

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I really enjoyed this book. It had a good blend of reality and fantasy, without getting too fantastical. It had some weird anachronistic speech, which, of course, is found in all historical romance - but I specifically noticed it here. The dialogue is a bit inconsistent. Perhaps I am not knowledgeable enough about (Transylvanian? not sure) culture, but there was a weird meld of religions and languages. At least, I think there was. Aside from that, though, it was interesting and entertaining, and for the most part, solid. One thing that was weird was

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the main character was really attached to her "child" (her sister's child) at the beginning, and then the child and thoughts of her vanished. Then all of a sudden, the main character was really interested/concerned for this other kid she adopted, who really came out of nowhere. It would have been better for the author to just use the kid from the beginning, which would really have had the same, if not more potent, dramatic effect.