Selia
and Oren have worked side-by-side for years running their family tavern. Oren
is a gentle soul and Selia and fight and hunt with the best of the men in their
small community. When danger threatens everything Selia has known, she sees
little choice in offering to help the most unlikely or neighbors. Selia lives
in the border with the Svistra people. The Svistra are a vampiric-like race
that wishes to take back their land. In order to prevent war, Selia aligns
herself with Jaden, a Svistra warrior, and now she must find a way to convince
the humans that peace might be possible with Svistra.
This
was an excellent romantic fantasy. I call it a romantic fantasy but in honesty,
I’m not sure it has significantly more romance they any traditional fantasy.
The focus of the story, while at times is on Selia and Jaden’s relationship, is
also on the war between their people. I was engrossed in their adventure from
the start and curious about everything would work out. The adventure was probably
the highlight of this book for me. I kept wondering what could happen next and
I felt that the author did a good job of keeping me guess without making the
next twist ridiculous. It was suspenseful and action packed.
The
curiosity and easy writing style kept me reading this book and all those things,
including intriguing characters, got me to finish reading it. The Svistra are a
people with secrets and it took a while for some of those secrets to revealed.
That ended up being both a good thing and a bad thing. I spent a good part of
the first half of the book scratching my head and wondering what the deal was
with them. The second half of the book, I figure I’d either find out or I
wouldn’t (and the author better be writing another book based in this world so
I can get my questioned answered), I just sort of went with the flow of the
book. It almost felt that the Svistra weren’t a fully developed race of people
but instead a mash-up. I wasn’t thrilled with that, but I adjusted for the
second half of the book. The Svistra on the whole, were interesting but I would
have liked to see more character development outside of Jaden.
I
really enjoyed Altered Destiny and thought it was an excellent read. 4.5 Stars!
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If
you’d like to find out more about Shawna Thomas, check out her website.
I like a good romantic fantasy and this one sounds interesting so I'll have to give it a try. I'm reading a romantic fantasy right now that's kind of disappointing, The Fire Lord's Lover, so now I want to find a good one to read.
ReplyDeleteOh, I like the sounds of this one. I've never heard of it before now though. :) Thank you!
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