I love all things books, especially happy romance books. I love writing. I enjoy formatting text, finding book covers, and editing.
And of course, I love reading which is what lead me down this path of writing. Plus these characters pop in my head and I enjoy jotting them down and seeing where they lead me.
I live in Florida but rarely go to the beach, and always wear black. My favorite place to visit is Ireland.
I count on my three cats to bother me while I’m trying to create the words and on the countless gargoyles in my collection to listen carefully when I read aloud. My hot hubby likes to listen in as well.
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This book was the third in a trilogy. The stories contained many charming and delightful characters from a wide variety of fantasy realms, and the villains were unique and interesting as well. The plots were captivating and always held my interest. Now for the bad news...this book was full of the most annoying grammar and editing issues that pulled me out of the story so many times that I wanted to hurl my Kindle against a wall. I'm going to reveal them all in the hope that author Lisa Barry will see them and get a new editor. Also, the same types of grammar problems kept repeating. For instance, the possessive form of a noun was used in place of the proper plural form, i.e. using "siren's" when "sirens" was correct. There was one particularly egregious oversight that violated her own storyline, calling a stepfather a father-in-law. Who does that in their own story? And how does that huge error escape an editor? In addition, there were many instances where I couldn't follow her writing, there was something odd about her sentence structure such that I didn't understand where she was going with it. I liked her stories, but I won't be reading anything more of hers for a long time, this book was pretty aggravating.
This book could use a solid go over by an editor. And not just for the typos. (Someday I'll find out if reporting them actually does anything.) It has a great plot, nice wrap up, but it just feels a bit rushed. Things were jumping from story line to story line, it wasn't always clear who was being discussed, and it just didn't quite get everything connected together the way it needed. I can't figure out how to give examples without spoilers. But all of those individual plot lines were enjoyable. And I do love the mixed narrators rather than just one protagonist.
Book 3 was just as exciting as the others. We leaded more about each of these creatures, bad, good, loving and finding their way to their bonded to loosing their bonded before they had a chance. Finding out who you are and learning to grow, discovering who you are and waiting for the other shoe to drop. I hope this isn’t the last book of this series.
This ending felt very unsatisfying for me. I didn't feel like there was a lot of closure in the story lines. But it's also not feeling like another book is forthcoming. Overall, the series was just alright but a little disjointed for me.