Rhea RhodanCritiques

I love this author! Both her books have had two of my favorite heroines of late! Great heroes too! Hurry up and write more, please! :)

Another fascinating and unique heroine from Ms. Rhodan! The high fantasy bits were not my cup of tea, though they were cleverly sewn in to progress the plot (world-building in two worlds at once is challenging). I felt like some loose ends were not quite tied up but I get the sense that this might spin into a bit of a series and hopefully more of the story will be explained in future books! Also, yay for the cameo from Thorne and Dagger! Thorne is one of my favorite ever heroines! Can't wait to see what is up next. I love these heroines!

Think I'm going to have to dnf this one right now. I keep trying and it doesn't seem to suck me in. It has a lot of elements that I like, a goth girl who's a witch for example. Still maybe it's that the hero was so susceptible to the bad magic right off the bat and I like my heroes just a bit more wily than that? IDK but I'm done for now. Might come back to it in a different mood.

I love this author! Both her books have had two of my favorite heroines of late! Great heroes too! Hurry up and write more, please! :)

Another fascinating and unique heroine from Ms. Rhodan! The high fantasy bits were not my cup of tea, though they were cleverly sewn in to progress the plot (world-building in two worlds at once is challenging). I felt like some loose ends were not quite tied up but I get the sense that this might spin into a bit of a series and hopefully more of the story will be explained in future books! Also, yay for the cameo from Thorne and Dagger! Thorne is one of my favorite ever heroines! Can't wait to see what is up next. I love these heroines!

Favorite quotes:

“Oh, you noticed, did you? That leotard doesn’t hide much besides her skin, does it? Not like those rags she runs around in. I was so disappointed the first time I saw her in it. But it appears my loss is your gain. And oh my, what a gain! Mm-mmm!”
Without taking his eyes off Thorne, Dagger shifted, wishing his jeans weren’t suddenly so goddamn tight, and said, “Take your eyes off my fucking ‘gain’ if you want to keep seeing through them, Trent.”

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“My advice to you, Joe, is to pick up a damn shovel, clean up whatever shit you can and learn how to shut your fucking mouth while you still have all of your teeth and can breathe through your nose.”

Intriguing characters, an interesting plot, well-written...what else could you ask for? Thorne and Dagger are both afraid to love and scarred by personal horrors. Grace Thorne is damaged, inside and out, but she's tough and determined to survive. Jack Daggery has his own defenses but he too, wrestles with personal demons. Yet both are destined for each other. A compelling and action-filled love story that will leave you smiling.

Rhea Rhodan has a gift for creating unique, unforgettable characters in her books--and those in The Legacy of Buchanan's Crossing are no exception! I won't reiterate the plot, as there are several reviewers that have done a nice job already. What I will say is that this was quite fun to read and well-worth every page-turning minute.

I did not want to put this book down, which is perhaps the biggest compliment I can make about a book. I started it in the afternoon and finished somewhere around 2:30 in the morning. (Luckily I didn’t have to make dinner.) The main characters, Thorne (Grace) and Dagger (Jack Daggery) are two broken people, one bearing literal and figurative scars, the other, a scary hulk of a man whose past actions haunt him. They’re brought together in the beginning in the most unlikely circumstance and feel an immediate connection –- though not romantic at first. (Dagger experiences internal conflict, having feelings for Thorne but thinking she is a he.) The story explores the gradual relationship between the two, the barriers that are worn down, with a whole lot of action in between. I didn’t know where the action was going to take me, so I went along for the ride, and it didn’t disappoint. Two thumbs up!

I'm a fan of Rhea Rhodan after reading Finding Grace--a page turner with heat--so I was eager to read her next novel, The Legacy of Buchanan's Crossing. I wasn't disappointed. Being a paranormal romance, the story is completely different, and that is what I enjoyed so much about it. The heroine, Cayden, is smart, independent, and a big, beautiful woman. (Nice to see in a lead character, for a change.) She's a witch determined to preserve Buchanan's Crossing--not only a place of great power and healing energy for the earth, but her ancestral home--and keep it out of the clutches of an evil developer who wants it for his own terrible purposes.

The relationship between Cayden and Clint, owner of Green Man Construction, an environmental builder, is fun and full of heat. (Rhodan writes the romantic interludes so well and manages to convey the meanings without being salacious, and I really appreciate that.) Clint, who feels a strange attraction to the goth, Rubenesque Cayden--a woman clearly not his usual type--becomes immersed in her world and kind of seems a little dense at times. But that's not his fault. He's just figuring things out. (He is just a man, after all.)

The character Nevermore was very funny and clever. The story took unexpected turns--another thing I appreciate in a novel--and the ending wrapped things up nicely. Very well done.

It's books like these that make me wish I was better at reviews! I loved this novel from the first page. Rhea has a way of reeling you in with amazing characters and keeping you there with a great story. I can't say enough how hard it was to put this down every night. I look forward to more from this author.