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A review by jackiehorne
Heart Duel by Robin D. Owens
3.0
4 for writing & plot; 2 for ideology. Interesting to watch Owens' heart mate concept evolve. Here, two people who thought they did not have heartmates discover that they do--one had to "grow" into the other, mature enough to match her.
The romance is a typical "male I want you/female we can't" type, until the book's climax, where Holm Holly is put in danger, and his heartmate Lark has to declare her love and acceptance of him in order to save him. Pretty conventional gender wise: Lark is a healer, Holm a warrior, but the warrior has to make a move toward peace in order to be an acceptable mate. He also has to open his heart fully to her, something that all the men in Owens' novel seem to dread, but all inevitably have to learn to do.
The romance is a typical "male I want you/female we can't" type, until the book's climax, where Holm Holly is put in danger, and his heartmate Lark has to declare her love and acceptance of him in order to save him. Pretty conventional gender wise: Lark is a healer, Holm a warrior, but the warrior has to make a move toward peace in order to be an acceptable mate. He also has to open his heart fully to her, something that all the men in Owens' novel seem to dread, but all inevitably have to learn to do.