Annaliese Evans

An interesting story, a continuation of Night's Rose but somehow it seems to suffer from the author trying to incorporate too many ideas into one book and from the author occasionally writing herself into corners that have difficult places that she needs to go to get herself out of. Evans also has set this in 1750, but apart from some asides about the smells and sights you really don't get a good period feel from this and in fact if I hadn't noticed the date I would have sworn that it was set at least 100 years later.

This one has Rosemarie finding out more about her family, her husband and her friends. There are plots within plots and things she doesn't know about that are going to have to be dealt with.

The story feels like a forshortened version of Anita Blake meets Merry Gentry with fewer men.… (plus d'informations)

An interesting take on the Sleeping Beauty tale. Using the part of the story not often looked at, where Sleeping Beauty became pregnant while in her enchanted sleep. In this story an Ogre makes Rosemarie pregnant and when she's awoken while giving birth, she decides that she needs to get her revenge. Faerie offer her a chance to get revenge, a long life to hunt Ogres, Faerie's enemy. She becomes legendary and the ogres decide that they have to resort to drastic measures.

It's an interesting take on the story and she's quite a good character, but there was no real sense of place or time. While it was set in the 1750's and England I felt that it could have been any time. I'm now looking forward to reading the second book in the series.… (plus d'informations)

"I have a love/hate relationship with this book. Why I love it: I love the old world charm and language use. I love the main character Rose. She was a strong character with deep emotional pain and a horrible past (won't go into it due to spoilers). I love the "men" of the book even after learning a bit more about their "secrets". What I did not like about it: I can't really tell you since it would ruin the book. But, nevertheless, there are twists and turns that are not explained clearly. Instead, the author reveals the secrets through Rose's own discovery but since the author doesn't detail how Rose fully discovered the twists (hard to explain without ruining the book), the reader goes from point A to point Z without anything in between. I found myself going back and rereading thinking two pages were stuck together. I usually "get" books easily but I really wanted the cheat sheet version for this book."… (plus d'informations)