The truth is usually the heroines posses too many flaws.

I appreciate that you feel that way, but for me, heroines often come across as too perfect, or so spotless they are bland.

How can you respect a man who takes shit? But then how can you respect a woman who takes shit? You can’t. So that means they need to love each otherb pretty much very quickly.

As long as I come to respect them by the end of the book, I’m okay. I don’t have to respect them from the very first page. Characters can grow and change over the course of a story into people I admire and that often makes it better for me. Just my two cents.

I actually enjoyed the characters and the world building. However, I read this one and the next back to back. Though I can see the Feehan comparison, I feel this female lead has a lot more to offer. The last 1/3 of the second book really helps the development of the female lead.

Rose, I enjoyed the worldbuilding as well, and I think Jan did too. And I didn’t dislike the characters, though I did wish for more complexity in their personalities and a flaw or two in Ellie’s.

As I said in my review, it can be difficult to judge an incomplete story. It is good to hear that Ellie’s character is developed further in the second book.

The explaining dialogue did bother me. I mean, find another way to get things across. It’s one of those things that works fine a time or too but it was a common tactic of hers. Plus you’re very right, it stood in the way of real character interaction.

Oh my the Feehan connection explains a lot. Feehan’s characters are almost all like that, and they’re life-mates, so the romances are very similar to this in their development.

It’s more or less correct that the prologue didn’t bother me as much as it did you. It was a bit difficult to understand but I didn’t let myself get too bogged down in that and just assumed my understanding of it would catch up with me later, which did turn out to be the case.

Did you also have an issue with all the explaining in the dialogue, Jan? I don’t remember you mentioning that and I haven’t seen anyone else refer to it either, so I’m wondering if it only bothered me.

I never did get around to reading part 2. You can read it first and I’ll know whether or not to.

LOL. I don’t know if I’ll be reading it that soon, either. But if I do I’ll definitely let you know my thoughts.

I too liked the world-building. As for the characters, I have never read Feehan so I can’t comment on the similarity. I gather that Feehan and Wilson are critique partners. Do Feehan’s books also have characters who are either very good or very villainous?