The plot description is a bit off.
This is the latest development in Gabrielle and Gary's story. Wwe also get more revelations about Teagan, her grandmother Trixie, and the other eight or so ancients holed up at that mysterious monastery.
The rating is not for the writing but the fact that despite yet another batch of ancients coming out of the wood work (well, monastery) at least this time there's a purpose to why they were introduced. The writing itself is "functional" - like CF needed to get this book out of the way "functional" The chapters take up one of the three couples that's the focus of this episode. Even the villains (vampires and the Society) take a back seat to what's revealed by the three story lines - which is really a huge change of pace for CF. However, there's still a number of sex scenes which went on too long (in term of word count). The human lifemates still turn into wimpy, cowering females - though one of them has a very good reason for that.
Anyway, not a keeper for me. But at least THIS book has some redeeming value for the 8 hours I spent reading it. At least there's a glimmer of hope for the ancients at the end of this one.
This is the latest development in Gabrielle and Gary's story. Wwe also get more revelations about Teagan, her grandmother Trixie, and the other eight or so ancients holed up at that mysterious monastery.
The rating is not for the writing but the fact that despite yet another batch of ancients coming out of the wood work (well, monastery) at least this time there's a purpose to why they were introduced. The writing itself is "functional" - like CF needed to get this book out of the way "functional" The chapters take up one of the three couples that's the focus of this episode. Even the villains (vampires and the Society) take a back seat to what's revealed by the three story lines - which is really a huge change of pace for CF. However, there's still a number of sex scenes which went on too long (in term of word count). The human lifemates still turn into wimpy, cowering females - though one of them has a very good reason for that.
Anyway, not a keeper for me. But at least THIS book has some redeeming value for the 8 hours I spent reading it. At least there's a glimmer of hope for the ancients at the end of this one.
Given the choice between a revised Cheyenne McCray & a new Carpathian...duh. So, why was this sooooo bad? Well, I can write a book about that! I'm off to reading the McCray now, and I feel a sense of relief...it's not me, I can enjoy erotica.
So much wasted potential! I was really looking forward to learning about the monastery & the ancients there. The 2 h sounded interesting...a grandma! Gotta love that! As characters go, Fane & Trixie were okay.
The only thing that kept it from being a complete fail was at the end (and it literally took me one freaking page at time to get there...how long is this book anyway, 3000 pages?!), but it was too brief: you got a name & a physical description.
So, IMHO you can just skip this book unless you have a hankering to read this couple's sex scene & that couple's sex scene, and back to couple #1, and so on. Pretty blah sex...
I advise dear author to get back to the story & leave the copious sex to the erotica writers.
The only plot movement is the devolvement of Gary...here's the gist (SPOILER): because he absorbed the ancients darkness, he lost emotion & color all at once is barely holding on as an ancient predator...a danger to himself & others. There, move on to the next book & cross your fingers!
So much wasted potential! I was really looking forward to learning about the monastery & the ancients there. The 2 h sounded interesting...a grandma! Gotta love that! As characters go, Fane & Trixie were okay.
The only thing that kept it from being a complete fail was at the end (and it literally took me one freaking page at time to get there...how long is this book anyway, 3000 pages?!), but it was too brief: you got a name & a physical description.
So, IMHO you can just skip this book unless you have a hankering to read this couple's sex scene & that couple's sex scene, and back to couple #1, and so on. Pretty blah sex...
I advise dear author to get back to the story & leave the copious sex to the erotica writers.
The only plot movement is the devolvement of Gary...here's the gist (SPOILER): because he absorbed the ancients darkness, he lost emotion & color all at once is barely holding on as an ancient predator...a danger to himself & others. There, move on to the next book & cross your fingers!
