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rlbrock 's review for:
Blythewood
by Carol Goodman
Why on earth this isn't marketed as YA I don't know. It falls right in line with the I'm secretly from faerie and only I can (fill in the blank) because I have special powers. There are competing love interests, all romance, no sex, and a parent/family mystery that needs to be sorted before the protagonist can discover herself. Midway through, it starting feeling like a 1 of 3 and I was getting prepared to be very annoyed (I hate it when books don't announce that they're the start of a series). That doesn't come to pass, although the door is certainly open for a follow up.
So, all that said, every time I read a Carol Goodman novel, I have a very strong sense that I already know this story. I don't know if it's becasue she's been reworking the same tropes since *The Lake of Dead Languages* of if she's really good at tapping into some zeitgeist. Whatever it is, I continue to enjoy them, although I find them increasing less mesmerizing and powerful. Given the ones previous to this, explcit paranormal romances written under the pseudonym Juliet Dark, perhaps she's dividing her work -- some things appropriate for one name, some for the other.
So, all that said, every time I read a Carol Goodman novel, I have a very strong sense that I already know this story. I don't know if it's becasue she's been reworking the same tropes since *The Lake of Dead Languages* of if she's really good at tapping into some zeitgeist. Whatever it is, I continue to enjoy them, although I find them increasing less mesmerizing and powerful. Given the ones previous to this, explcit paranormal romances written under the pseudonym Juliet Dark, perhaps she's dividing her work -- some things appropriate for one name, some for the other.