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Darkstone
As an adult, all Joram Darkstone wants is to be out from under the thumb of her adoptive guardian and to play music with her band. Life as an orphan is firmly behind her. When she meets the mesmerizing Naomi after a show, her overt obsession with the other woman baffles her friends but somehow feels right.
Naomi Kostopoulos grew up in the Carpathian Mountains, trained to be sensitive to magic and burdened with a heavy Guard the dimensional door at any cost when the time comes. Now living in Southern California, a chance meeting with a musician opens up dangerous possibilities. Joram may be a stranger, but her voice echoes from Naomi’s childhood dreams.
As the signs of magical cataclysm swirl around them, Joram and Naomi are bound inexplicably closer by love... And destiny.
Two women on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil, both pawns in a game they don’t fully comprehend…
Naomi Kostopoulos grew up in the Carpathian Mountains, trained to be sensitive to magic and burdened with a heavy Guard the dimensional door at any cost when the time comes. Now living in Southern California, a chance meeting with a musician opens up dangerous possibilities. Joram may be a stranger, but her voice echoes from Naomi’s childhood dreams.
As the signs of magical cataclysm swirl around them, Joram and Naomi are bound inexplicably closer by love... And destiny.
Two women on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil, both pawns in a game they don’t fully comprehend…
304 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2016
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D. Jordan Redhawk
17 books97 followersA fan-geek and internet junkie, D. Jordan Redhawk is a passionate writer of lesbian romance, covering multiple genres. She highlights the outsider, revealing that we are not all that different from one another. Her books are published by PD Publishing and Bella Books.
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August 18, 2017
There is a new book called Pixie, being released this month (Aug, 2017). It is not really a sequel to this book, but it takes place in the same urban fantasy world. I wanted to give Darkstone a read first, to find how this world came to be. This is the fourth book I have read by Redhawk. I enjoy how she writes, and really like that she writes in all different genres. Romance, paranormal, sci-fi, and fantasy, all genres I really enjoy. While, I thought this book was perfectly okay, I didn't click for me any more than that. To be honest, this is my least favorite book by Redhawk so far.
While this is urban fantasy, it is not so heavily into it. The door between the fae and humans has been closed for thousands of years. You have two sides, the ones that want to keep it closed, and those who want to open the door and bring war to humans. Two children of power are picked to be the "chosen ones" on both sides of this battle. They have trained all their lives to fulfill their destiny. Now adults on opposite sides, what happens if the two "chosen ones", fall in love?
I have to say after reading the mainstream Fever series by Karen Marie Moning, it is pretty scary to think what could happen if the door to the fae would ever be opened. It gave me a sense of dread reading this, even though that series and this book have nothing to do with each other. Funny how books read long ago, could affect how I feel about a book by another author. In fairness to Redhawk, I did my best to focus on this book on its own. I still could not get passed that I just didn't really click with this.
I'm an urban fantasy fan, I love fantasy and paranormal books, I thought I would love this. But the real disconnect for me was the characters. Even though we are with them from children to adulthood, I never felt a strong connection with them. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in, and that I never truly understood them. I would just start getting into one character, then we would switch to another. By the time we switched back, we had jumped into the future, and that small connection I made was gone. I hope this is making sense. I think it would had been better if Redhawk focused more on one character, so the reader would connect, instead of two characters that I connected with neither. I did think both character were perfectly fine, and I wanted them to be together. Though the romance is very light and very fast to say "I love you's".
For me this book was just okay. It had a lot of potential, with an interesting storyline, but never really got there. I do really like Redhawk as an author. I'm hopefully her new book Pixie, will be everything I was missing in this one.
While this is urban fantasy, it is not so heavily into it. The door between the fae and humans has been closed for thousands of years. You have two sides, the ones that want to keep it closed, and those who want to open the door and bring war to humans. Two children of power are picked to be the "chosen ones" on both sides of this battle. They have trained all their lives to fulfill their destiny. Now adults on opposite sides, what happens if the two "chosen ones", fall in love?
I have to say after reading the mainstream Fever series by Karen Marie Moning, it is pretty scary to think what could happen if the door to the fae would ever be opened. It gave me a sense of dread reading this, even though that series and this book have nothing to do with each other. Funny how books read long ago, could affect how I feel about a book by another author. In fairness to Redhawk, I did my best to focus on this book on its own. I still could not get passed that I just didn't really click with this.
I'm an urban fantasy fan, I love fantasy and paranormal books, I thought I would love this. But the real disconnect for me was the characters. Even though we are with them from children to adulthood, I never felt a strong connection with them. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in, and that I never truly understood them. I would just start getting into one character, then we would switch to another. By the time we switched back, we had jumped into the future, and that small connection I made was gone. I hope this is making sense. I think it would had been better if Redhawk focused more on one character, so the reader would connect, instead of two characters that I connected with neither. I did think both character were perfectly fine, and I wanted them to be together. Though the romance is very light and very fast to say "I love you's".
For me this book was just okay. It had a lot of potential, with an interesting storyline, but never really got there. I do really like Redhawk as an author. I'm hopefully her new book Pixie, will be everything I was missing in this one.
May 27, 2017
Bring back the magic
Good book. Surprisingl ending. Will read again.And now I am just making enough words. Bad idea Amazon....get rid of the word count
Good book. Surprisingl ending. Will read again.And now I am just making enough words. Bad idea Amazon....get rid of the word count
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