CHOPPY.
A quick read, in a negative fashion. The storyline seems to be missing several chapters while moving from one to another. The potential for this book appeared to be great. The cover is what drew me in, and the title is intriguing enough for me to start reading. As the story begins, we seem to be missing the backstory, we are dumped directly into the first meeting of Sade, a mortal, and Aranion, the Sidhe Prince, which allows us to have a beginning introduction, but afterwards the story takes off without a breath insight.
While I enjoy dual POV, I was left wanting more in-depth thoughts and emotions. The major frustration with this multi-POV writing was the fact that the same events would repeat from different POV, instead of inserting the other thoughts or emotions, or a self-reflecting thought moving forward, the actions were simply repeated with the others POV. During part-two of the book, Aranion’s POV completely disappears, while we pick up Haytham’s POV, a stranger to Sade, but her new tutor/teacher.
The instantaneous need to be with one another, soul bound, left a lot of questions. While Sade and Aranion meet again, who knows how many years later, they are automatically attracted to one another. Somehow, the two were able to communicate sexually across worlds, without the true knowledge of one another. This opens the portal between their worlds and allows for Sade and Aranion to interact. I am normally a sucker for eternal mates/instant love/lust, but Sade and Aranion’s base of emotions seems to only revolve around intercourse. I wish we could have had some sort of basis for the two of them. While there is a soul bond between Sade and Aranion, during part-two, the bond is broken? There’s no explanation of how, the simple conversation or actions of “breaking,” the bond would be interesting to read and would add some depth to the storyline. As we are taken on a separate journey of part-two, Sade continues to feel the soul bond, but somehow is still able to get, “tingly” feelings for not only her capture but also her tutor/teacher, Haytham, so is she truly apart of the soul bond?
Lastly, Sade’s common-sense flags and triggers somehow disappeared. During the first couple of chapters, Sade can think through her actions and second guess herself. But somehow, during part-two of the storyline, her thoughts and processing are on a simple basis, like a child. She allows herself to be treated as a pet of sorts, but obviously still human. This part became frustrating as others around her warned her of the level of trust she’d given her capture, and yet…she still clings to the thought of being alive.
I would like to read the second installment only to see if the storyline somehow comes around, I have no confidence, but I would like to complete the story, to end the what ifs.