fiainros reviewed Wandfasted by Laurie Forest
Review of 'Wandfasted' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Most of my thoughts about Wandfasted are better expressed in my reviews of The Black Witch and Ironflower, which are yet to be posted.
I'm reading these books for my book club.
Forest writes a good romance. While many readers do not like insta-love, it has never bothered me. In fact, I quite like the insta-love trope. However, the main character saying things like "This side of him was new to me" is a little odd when the main character has known the love interest exactly a week. Everything is new at that point!
There's more dining scenes in this story. Dining scenes are commonplace in romance, but Forest's remind me strongly of GRRM. It makes me feel like Forest is trying to prepare readers to read GRRM. Little does she know....
As I mentioned above, many of the issues in Black Witch and Ironflower are continued here. I don't …
Most of my thoughts about Wandfasted are better expressed in my reviews of The Black Witch and Ironflower, which are yet to be posted.
I'm reading these books for my book club.
Forest writes a good romance. While many readers do not like insta-love, it has never bothered me. In fact, I quite like the insta-love trope. However, the main character saying things like "This side of him was new to me" is a little odd when the main character has known the love interest exactly a week. Everything is new at that point!
There's more dining scenes in this story. Dining scenes are commonplace in romance, but Forest's remind me strongly of GRRM. It makes me feel like Forest is trying to prepare readers to read GRRM. Little does she know....
As I mentioned above, many of the issues in Black Witch and Ironflower are continued here. I don't think she's improved any of those and this is too short of a place to get into it. Her "everybody knows everybody" that bothered me in Black Witch is made worse here.
I have not read book 3, so this was my introduction to the full description of what Gardnerian marriage ritual is like. I found it helpful.
Overall, this is worth reading if you have read or are reading the accompanying series. It's a nice little romance embedded in all the other problems of the other books.
