See this review on my blog! | Follow me on Facebook! A great beginning to a tantalising new series. This genre might have not been my ‘natural habitat’ and it might have made me uneasy at first, but I very quickly found my bearings and never looked back. It literally only puts the keys into the ignition, turns the car on but it never puts it into ‘drive’. It establishes the links between the characters, hints at some of their shared histories and makes sure the reader is sufficiently intrigued to keep on reading. This book only sets the scene for the rest of the series.
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I believe it would have had a greater impact on the reader as a full instalment rather than just a teasing bite. I was left a bit uncertain as to why this book needed to be a novella rather than a full-length book. They went from 0 to 100 in a matter of hours, almost whip-lashing the reader into a situation where we were told they were “mates” rather than shown the build-up of feelings between them. Their connection was solidified physically through some very sizzling hot lovin’ rather than through careful character compatibility and development and this was dissatisfying for me, a little less for Nicole and Gideon. I loved Nicole’s sharp-tongued sassiness and passion, I was weak at the knees from Gideon’s vulnerability and yet dominant alpha male tendencies, but I was left hoping for more pages to pace out a good thing. I had no time to properly connect with the characters myself. The pace with which bonds were forged felt slightly rushed to me, making me wish they had more time to explore the draw between them. But the length of this book did not do the story any favours, especially when it comes to the natural development of the attachment between the lead characters. Ms Rayne can also undoubtedly write good chemistry between characters, some of the scenes are so full of passion that you might need a glass of water afterwards. “Oh well, sweetheart, you’re stuck with me now.” She had always assumed she would make someone a very sh*tty girlfriend, and as far as she was concerned, this clinched it. “The fact that she’d actually forgotten that her main squeeze was lying unconscious on the floor caused her to flinch before she rushed to his side. It is laced with delightful humour, making even the more dramatic scenes quite entertaining and light-hearted. It never distracts from the story itself and it draws you in from the very first sentence. Her prose is elaborate and yet to the point, current but not overly slang-ish. She can make you feel whatever she wishes you to feel. This is an incredibly enticing story of magic, supernatural creatures, a new world that Lola Rayne craftily weaves for us but only allows us to dip our toes in it. What follows is a very speedy introduction between the two lead characters, in the Biblical sense as well, and the appearance of all the other secondary characters. In this moment of distress, she is saved from her own panic attack by a stranger, Gideon, who comes to her rescue inexplicably drawn to her. Nicole had hoped for her horrific nightmares to stay in the past, but they come back seeking her out, angry and hungry for vengeance. We meet her at the instant when her painful past suddenly catches up with her, causing her to panic and flee from the scene. In this first short novella-type instalment of the upcoming Mounting Darkness series, we are introduced to all the major characters.
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Very few series of this kind still go onto my reading list by default, but let me tell you, this one most definitely will. I have enjoyed reading it in the past but as I grow older I need more and more scenarios I can easily identify with, and less and less make believe supernatural action. It was not gentle or sweet it was raw and brutal. There was simply no other way to describe the manner in which he kissed her.
A must-read for anyone who cares for those with mental disorders, brain tumors, and personality disorders, as well as, debilitating disease.“. The book gives new hope in cancer treatments and natural healings. But, wait! He returns inflicting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What this family endured is boldly told so others may understand the depth of brain disorders and disease. Mental illness and disease hit every family. The true epic took 20 years to document and reach print. I clung to the towel until it became too heavy to throw. I was mean and wore my bitterness well covering the ugly in a rosy charade. He left us emotionally handcuffed and shackled. In the shadows, a brain tumor named Monster splattered unsettling strokes on his palate.
His screams were shrills from Satan's Den. "My God, you're going to kill us." Limbs and debris hurled everywhere. Barren trees turned to pillars of concrete while the angry Fox River took voice, "Join me."
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