Thea Harrison - Lord's Fall

Sooooo...I have really mixed feelings about this book. It's not like it was bad or anything, but its not like it was great either. It was missing something that would have made it better, but I just can't put my finger on it. It might be that it was too subdued for my liking. I think it was too big of a change from the passion and fast-paced action of the first book, Dragon Bound, which first introduced Pia and Dragos and how their romance developed. So here's what I didn't like about it:

For one thing, for the first 140 pages or so of the book, Pia and Dragos weren't together because Pia had convinced Dragos to let her go on a diplomatic mission down to the Elven Demesne in Charleston to repair their broken alliance (which Dragos had caused because in the first book, he had crossed the Elven border to chase after Pia when it was forbidden). So they weren't broken up or anything, but they were physically separated and it kinda sucked. 

I also found it really wrong that Pia, who is pregnant and starting to show, has no qualms about going into battle and putting her baby at risk. I understand that she's a tough bitch and won't cower behind Dragos, but dude, you're PREGNANT. You're going to have a BABY. A baby which you could possibly lose if you get injured. So I thought that was a little callous of her and thoughtless. 

The ending of the book also bothered me a bit because even though I was super happy that she finally had the baby, who has a conscience even as a fetus and who's been talking to Pia in her dreams for a long time, We don't even get to see mother and child together. The book ends with Pia sleeping with her head on Dragos lap because she's so tired after giving birth, so Dragos is holding the baby looking out the window into the lake all content and whatnot. Call me a sappy fool, but I kind of wanted Pia to be awake so she and Dragos could be like "Aww, look at him, isn't he the most perfect thing you've ever seen?" or something like that. 

So I felt that, overall, the baby got ignored a bit too much. I'd have liked it more if the book was a bit more about the baby and maybe her having some complication with the pregnancy. Instead it was about how she had to repair the alliance between the Wyr and the Elves, which all of a sudden turned into some battle to save the world from an elf who was being controlled by a powerful object made by a god. I guess the book was lacking in cohesion and seemed a bit fragmented. There just wasn't enough build up of tension or back story about the God Machines. It felt like I was reading two separate stories, one about Pia going to the Elven Demesne to try to repair the alliance and another about the battle against this crazy elf. It would have been better if the book was about, like I said, complications with her pregnancy or her secret of being a unicorn getting out or something like that, and her getting kidnapped by people who want to use her powers to their advantage. That would have been a really good read.

So I guess there wasn't much to like about this book, even the sex scenes were crappy compared to the first book, where they were crazy for each other and the scenes were really steamy. To be honest, I didn't feel their connection as strongly as I did in the first book, but maybe that's just me. 

But anyways, I FINALLY GOT TO POST AN ACTUAL REVIEW!!!! Yay for Spring Break!!! I'm hoping I'll be able to get 7 or 8 books in this week, and it might actually happen cuz I'm book starved and I read through this book like I was eating candy. Until next time!

Book Love,

Lena