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karinapplesauce 's review for:
Sapphire Flames
by Ilona Andrews
I'm glad this series is keeping on. I suppose I understand that the Nevada/Mad Rogan storyline is getting stale (and let's not forget they got married and are therefore irrelevant). The switch to Catalina felt, well, meh, to me. She's basically in the role of Nevada since her fighting relationship with Arabella is alluded to but mainly forgotten. Nevada is shoved out of the picture because she's "overstressed" and again, irrelevant now that she's married into another house. I had asked myself this question quite a bit in the previous books--well, what happens if she does get married? It's a little bit of a disappointing "end" to Nevada because the message is that you disappear into your husband (if you don't make your husband disappear into you). I suppose we are dealing with magical houses and a bit of a feudal system though.
Alessandro is amusing but very much felt like when we were introduced to Mad Rogan. I realize most romance novels are the same but dressed slightly differently. Catalina had a few differences from her sister (which were called out), but honestly--if I wasn't hit over the head with it, I would have assumed Catalina was Nevada, just tweaked a little for a new storyline. It helped that they advanced the storyline 3 years so Catalina is at least 21. It didn't help that 21 still felt a little young. Maybe the next book will be another couple of years and I'll like it more.
I still love the setting and the world that this is in, so I'll keep reading.
Alessandro is amusing but very much felt like when we were introduced to Mad Rogan. I realize most romance novels are the same but dressed slightly differently. Catalina had a few differences from her sister (which were called out), but honestly--if I wasn't hit over the head with it, I would have assumed Catalina was Nevada, just tweaked a little for a new storyline. It helped that they advanced the storyline 3 years so Catalina is at least 21. It didn't help that 21 still felt a little young. Maybe the next book will be another couple of years and I'll like it more.
I still love the setting and the world that this is in, so I'll keep reading.