This book has led me to a very important decision: I’m going to learn to speak Romanian. It may take me a while, but I’m incredibly stubborn, and if I start now I can be fluent in a couple of years. (view spoiler)[My conscience informs me that I have to finish my research AND write my thesis first. Damn! (hide spoiler)]
Anyway, I want to learn Romanian just to be able to whisper to Mircea in his native language when he visits me in my dreams add it to my CV. It’s a beautiful language and I was always interested in Romanian folklore.

But let’s get back to the book. People who like the Cassie Palmer series will definitely love Dorina Basarab too. I, on the other hand, had the same problem with both: Karen Chance is a first level master at creating characters. You can’t help falling in love with Dorina, Louis-Cesare and even Radu (especially Radu!). But when it comes to building a story around those characters, she fails spectacularly every single time. I’ve read five of her books so far, and they all had the same problem. I’ll try to explain better.
I don’t like authors who underestimate their readers. It happens more often than not, authors treating their audience like a bunch of idiots, explaining everything about a dozen times while keeping those sentences short and simple just in case. But Karen Chance does exactly the opposite: she overestimates herself. She writes every book like it’s her last, trying to put too much content into it. It’s especially evident in action scenes: too much is happening at once and you just can't follow. What should be exciting ends up being utterly boring. But those characters keep you going, and because of them I WILL read Death's Mistress, even if I wasn’t planning to at first. I just have to find out how things work out for everyone!