Ash’s review of Rebel (Blades of the Rose, Book 3) by Zoe Archer
Paranormal Romance published by Zebra 01 Nov 10
Another adventure following the Blades of the Rose as they try to save the world, but sadly I’m a bit mixed on this book.
My biggest problem with this book is that it is almost exactly the same, plot-wise, as the previous two. Boy meets girl, boy and girl must run from the Heirs to protect something while falling in love, then boy and girl battle the Heirs. While the names and locations change, the rest remains the same. Most of the time I was able to overlook that because I enjoyed Nathan and, for the most part, Astrid as well.
Nathan is more of the brooding, mysterious type of hero that I so enjoy. Compared to him, Astrid is a bit dull. I feel he deserves someone more interesting, but as a person I like her. She is strong and capable of almost anything. She holds her own next to dominant Nathan and they are truly equals in their relationship.
This time around, Nathan and Astrid are being chased across the Canadian frontier, searching for three sources that can give the owner power over a tribe of shape changers. Nathan happens to be a part of this tribe, and I enjoyed having a magic user as a main character. It adds something new to the story that I was looking for in the previous books.
By the time it comes to battle the Heirs, I wasn’t as into it as I wanted to be. Again I feel like I had read it before, the only excitement the addition of zombies into the mix. Sadly, they aren’t as involved as I hoped and, in fact, the big fight scene ends almost exactly how I was expecting. The war continues without any real resolution, aside from some revenge that got taken care of.
The best part of Rebel is Cattullus Graves, the best-dressed inventor. His story is up next and I think it is the one I have been looking forward to the most. He is not so easy to label and I am excited to get into his head. The epilogue of Rebel is him and his heroine-to-be and it leaves me wanting more. While I didn’t find this story as exciting as the others, I am still a big fan of Zoe Archer and the Blades of the Rose.
Grade: B –
Summary:
On the Canadian frontier in 1875, nature is a harsh mistress. But the supernatural can really do you in…
A LONE WOLF
Nathan Lesperance is used to being different. He’s the first Native attorney in Vancouver, and welcome neither with white society nor his sometime tribe. Not to mention the powerful wildness he’s always felt inside him, too dangerous to set free. Then he met Astrid Bramfield and saw his like within her piercing eyes. Now, unless she helps him through the harsh terrain and the harsher unknowns of his true abilities, it could very well get him killed…
AND THE WOMAN WHO LEFT THE PACK
Astrid has traveled this path before. Once she was a Blade of the Rose, protecting the world’s magic from unscrupulous men, with her husband by her side. But she’s loved and lost, and as a world-class frontierswoman, she knows all about survival. Nathan’s searing gaze and long, lean muscles mean nothing but trouble. Yet something has ignited a forgotten flame inside her: a burning need for adventure, for life—and perhaps even for love…
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