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Summary: Lackey's best book in years
Review: Excellent blend of fantasy and romance. Glad a romance publishing company finally got wise and got a fantasy writer to write a fantasy romance for them.
(I don't know where that earlier person heard the line would be fantasy with light romance. I knew, with a major romance publisher putting out the line, and all the publicity I saw promoted it as romance novels with solid fantasy,and science-fiction plots.)
The line is obviously targeted at readers like me who enjoy all those genres and had been looking for good blends from the romance side of the aisle of the genre instead of bad futuristic romances (exceptions being Susan Grant's "Contact" and Jane Anne Krentz's "Sweet Starfire") promising but weak fantasy/romance blends, and vampire romances with ultra boring Alpha male types (Types like Angel of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's in sci-fi/horror series that sexier, less tradtional macho vampires show up like Lackey's own Andre and Hamilton's Jean-Claude, or Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I would love if the Luna line did a vampire romance story with the a more interesting Spike-like vampire)
I actually wish the story had been a bit sexier, the one love scene was very tame for a romance novel. At least let the scene continue through the end of the lovemaking. This brings to mind the criticism by the reviewer that mistakenly thought the line was fantasy with light romance. The attempts by sci-fi writers (Lackey and Hamilton as obvious exceptions) to incorporate romance into their sci-fi/fantasy stories are as unsatisfying to a reader of all genres as the bad futuristic romances. They are dull with no sense of attraction between the characters, their romance writing is a bad as the romance writer's science fiction or fantasy.
If the other books in the Luna line are as good as Fairy Godmother I can happily say- finally a line for readers like me!
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Summary: I don't like Alexander
Review: It started off strongly and at first I was enjoying the book with the same sort of enthusiasm I had enjoyed Arrows of the Queen some ten years ago. Then Alexander happened and I yelled at the book and contemplated tossing it across the room. From about page 200 to about page 275, I couldn't help but picture Donkey from Shrek and I found the whole experience very distracting.My husband told me that the book got better and every time I growled about Alexander, he reminded me, "But he's important to the story." Things fortunately did get better and I could enjoy the last third of the book although with not quite the same way as I had the first third. I am waiting now for zombiebooker to get back to me with an address. If I don't hear back in a day or two longer, I'll send the book onto Eskielover.
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