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Dear Ms. Pharaoh Francis:
There’s a lot of discontent in the romance community over the use of shortcuts. Essentially, an author relies on certain words or phrases to depict an entire emotional or psychological backstory for a character. Long time romance readers understand intuitively what the author is trying to convey, but newcomers to the genre often wonder at the appeal due to lack of familiarity.
When I was reading Cipher, a straight fantasy with romance undertones, I felt similar complaints. I wondered time and again if I had more experience in reading the fantasy genre that maybe I would understand this book better. However, if I can borrow a metaphor from your seafaring world, I felt moorless and adrift.
Lucy Trenton is a member of the Rampling family, the royal class of whatever world Lucy inhabits. The information from your site says that the setting is the “island world of Crosspointe.” (I admit to not really getting that Crosspointe was an island instead of a sea bordering land). The waters surrounding Crosspointe are inhabited by sylveth, magickal creatures who change everything they touches, animate or …
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