Cover Image of Veiled Memories
by Jena Baxter
Highly descriptive writing and vivid imagery transform an otherwise competent but standard paranormal romance into something more in Jena Baxter’s Veiled Memories. Characterization, while (again) competently accomplished, is altered from acceptable levels to very strong development almost entirely based on the consistent and inescapable visualizations that give reality to the characters, and reality forces empathy and identification.

There are flaws, of course. Sometimes the lushness of the descriptive language can be a bit over-powering in the way a rich desert overwhelms us with bliss and then with each bite brings a growing sense of heaviness and unease. Ultimately, though, the assets of Baxter’s stylistic approach far outweigh the liabilities.

As a writer, I was likely taken in by the writing in a way that made me focus on style rather than the plot or, for that matter, anything else. That’s one of the risks of spending hours behind the computer. Veiled Memories, though, pulled me into the story. I felt for the human characters, Lily and Bryan, and I felt deeply for the angel protagonist, Ilan. 

The romance and desire is set against a powerful backdrop of the battle between good and evil, and I find the power of that battle somehow amplified by the vivid emotion battle between the humans and the terrible internal battle within Ilan. 

Here’s the bottom line. This is better than a run-of-the-mill paranormal romance story. It has all of the run-of-the-mill elements that make the genre such a wonderful guilty pleasure but it goes beyond with competent crafting and extraordinary vividness in the descriptions and the writing.
So, go ahead and Buy Veiled Memories (Bonds of the Covenant Book 1).

You’ll be glad you did.

Okay, Molly Monsters, I know you’re used to seeing erotic content for me, and this isn’t an erotica book. So sue me. Sometimes my man leaves me so damned sexually satisfied that I read other things.