Paranormal Romance published by Shiloh Walker 18 Jul 22
I’ve desperately been trying to get back into paranormal romance, after my stint of contemporary for a few years. When I saw this latest release from Shiloh Walker, I thought it would be the way to go – she’s been a favorite of mine for a while, though it’s been a bit since I’ve read her work. Her Ash Trilogy is one of my all-time faves, and I love dragons, so what could go wrong?
In the beginning, all does go well. I love Sorin. Though everything goes wrong for him because of his arrogance – which he learns from the hard way – you can’t help but want him to be happy. When he loses the love he thought he’d never have, he has centuries of solitude before his soul recognizes the one woman made just for him.
Gia is Sorin’s mate, his second chance at love. He woos her slowly, and I actually like this romance more than the first. Gia isn’t about to let Sorin go, even if she doesn’t yet know why he’s so familiar to her. And she doesn’t run when he finally tells her why in an emotional scene.
What is it, though, that went wrong for me? All the errors scattered throughout. From punctuation to grammar and everything in between, this book is full of proofreading errors. If Ms. Walker has a team working for her to publish her books, she needs to find others to do the job. If she’s doing all the work herself, she needs to find the right people to assist her produce a better product. It’s these errors that kept me from fully enjoying the story, being pulled out of it several times on a page, several pages in a row, over and over again. Just a super inferior product.
Which is all unfortunate because the story is very good. Not a surprise because it is Shiloh Walker. But a reader can only take so much, and I was way past my limit very early in the book.
Grade: C+
Summary:
You will wander, you will roam
SORIN: He is Zmeu, one of the great dragons of myth.
As a young dragon, he was told an important truth: Dragons do not fall in love. They definitely do not fall in love with mortal women.
It’s a lesson Sorin takes to heart. He might have had a mortal mother, but mortals had also killed her, leaving him alone.
A dragon grown, he dwells in an impenetrable castle, living a dragon’s best life. He dances with fae swan maidens, steals baubles from unknowing kings, scoffs at mortals stumbling through life wasting time on war, hate…love.
Then love finds him.
In the village of his birth, a woman teaches him a truth his dragon family hadn’t—it’s rather easy for a dragon to find love.
Ever seeking solace, ever seeking home
Easy to love, yes. But understanding the woman who steals his heart? Not so easy. He doesn’t realize it at the time, his arrogance leading him to assume he knew best. After all, he was a dragon. Sorin’s arrogance led to her death…and a curse.
Hundreds of years later, living in the New World as the world prepares for war, he is almost numb to the curse that haunts him still.
You will wander, you will roam, they’d said. He did. But seeking solace, seeking home? Home and solace were lost to him, every bit as much as his love.
As penance, he guards the mortals in his territory, as she had protected those under her care. He’ll hold off the coming war as long as possible. When the time comes to take up a sword—or breathe fire—he will. It’s little comfort, but his lost love would expect him to protect. So he does.
One night, a sudden awareness yanks him from deepest sleep. Chasing the faint magical trail, he finds a woman battling for her life. Just before a killing strike, he sees her eyes…eyes of haunting green.
The eyes of the woman he’d loved, the eyes of the woman he’d killed.
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