“Too. CUTE!! Okay, sorry, I'll get off the cuteness...
This book was recommended to me by a Yahoo group I'm in, the Paranormal Romance Lovers. Angie herself is part of the group. Now I'm glad I took their advice!
I don't think this book is meant to be taken seriously at all (not that the author isn't to be taken seriously, just the tone of the book). Her talking dog is not an all-knowing helper like many talking animals in fiction (my favorite being, of course, Jim from the Aisling Grey series and Austin from the Keeper series)--he's just a dog who likes to eat and yap! yap! yap! Dear granny is a biker with a friend named Ant Eater. And the love interest? A griffin! This book actually made me feel good inside, like Susie Who making the Grinch's heart bigger, my black husk of a heart pulsed for a moment. Seriously, it freaked my husband out.
As with all things in my life, I had to find something wrong with this...my only complaint was that the author tried too hard to tear the protagonist and the love interest apart. In most Romance novels, you have the part where something tears the two apart, something that makes one or both think that they can't be together, that they shouldn't be together, that it's necrophilia to be together. Something. Anything. But I didn't sense that with these characters. They were good together, and whenever the protagonist lamented about how it wasn't to be, I muttered, "Whatever chick, you're stuck with him and you love it."”
Jackie B wrote this review Friday, September 26 2008.
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