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POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

Oh, where to begin? I really wanted to like this book! The characters (at first) were very interesting and had a lot of potential....that went exactly no where. My main problems lies with Nora, the protagonist (which is obviously problematic). Nora is a Mary Sue (meaning the author just stuck herself in the story and gave herself a new name). The author is sooo set on bashing you over the head with her religious views that it actually detracts for the story. We get that the author doesn't believe in sex before marriage the first few times it was mentioned (the first time being within the first 20 pages). The following million and half scenes of "sexual tension" that ended with some variation of them fighting temptation and declaring their decision to wait until after the wedding were just not necessary. I also didn't like the condescending and judgmental tone "Nora" took when she talked about people who do have sex before marriage or really anyone who doesn't fall in line with her Christian views. Later she gets so holier than thou and I just want to slap her. It's not a sin to be angry at someone. Furthermore, holy crap Batman we get it! She's head over heels for this guy she bumped into for no apparent reason, she has lots of power that just apparently grows and Nora is just chock full of abilities and she somehow has the most pure intent of anyone ever. Seriously, if you remove the copious mentions of Nora and Gavin's "circle", her powers, how much she trusts a guy who tells her absolutely nothing about anything else, or anything else that mentioned 100x too many there would be about 100 pages left. So much wordiness, awkward phrasing, bad editing, and "oh look at this SAT word that doesn't fit! Let's use it anyway!"

TL;DR Had potential but the story is too set on bashing you over the head with religious beliefs and reminding you how in love two people who barely know each other are to fully develop this story into something I'd want to keep reading.


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The Light of Asteria Kailmeyra Last Hope Elizabeth Isaacs 9781450217026 Books Reviews

I think that it is retold the biblical epic. I was really humbled to recognize the true nature of the story. And I really liked the heroine's mantra, "Appreciate what they can give, forgive them for what they cannot". The mantra expresses beautifully the virtue of both gratitude and forgiveness and teaches how to amend negative feelings that might have been growing inside and how not to be victimized unknowingly. It is Just in time for me, and I hope that it will do the tricks on others as well.
I really, really enjoyed this book. Elizabeth Isaacs has taken a little bit of this and a little bit of that and created a world and characters that are likeable, identifiable, scary, intriguing, and magical. I got a little worried when I started noticing some eerie similarities between the Bella/Edward/Cullen clan and Nora/Gavin/et.al (Nora's ability to "shield", the glass house in the woods full of artistic and rare treasures, and a few other things) but the similarities passed and I was reminded that a lot of fantasy, and romance, has re-occurring themes. I also couldn't help but notice a few spelling/grammatical errors and was confused by sentence structures once or twice, which I tend to get OCD about. I attribute these errors to flawed editing, not authorial misconduct ) I must stress, however, that I liked the story so much that I stayed up past my bedtime to keep reading, and whiled away most of the following day finishing the rest of it, AND when I came to to write my review, saw that I could purchase Isaacs second book in the Kailmeyra series, and "One-Clicked" with nary a second's hesitation!
Isaacs has created another world to get lost in, and I highly recommend doing so right away. I love her style of prose; the descriptions allowed me to see or feel exactly what the characters were feeling, or seeing, without being over the top. There is some understated humor, which feels very real and gives the characters depth. There are some good life lessons without being overly preachy; no one is perfect, least of all Nora, which makes her much more likeable. Gavin's anger gives their relationship some angst and gives us reason to think their future and that of the kingdom may be fraught with tribulations. Tribulations are good, in books- if things were perfect, we'd have "And they lived happily ever after" as the line to every book with no sequels!
Buy/download this story. It's well worth it!
POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

Oh, where to begin? I really wanted to like this book! The characters (at first) were very interesting and had a lot of potential....that went exactly no where. My main problems lies with Nora, the protagonist (which is obviously problematic). Nora is a Mary Sue (meaning the author just stuck herself in the story and gave herself a new name). The author is sooo set on bashing you over the head with her religious views that it actually detracts for the story. We get that the author doesn't believe in sex before marriage the first few times it was mentioned (the first time being within the first 20 pages). The following million and half scenes of "sexual tension" that ended with some variation of them fighting temptation and declaring their decision to wait until after the wedding were just not necessary. I also didn't like the condescending and judgmental tone "Nora" took when she talked about people who do have sex before marriage or really anyone who doesn't fall in line with her Christian views. Later she gets so holier than thou and I just want to slap her. It's not a sin to be angry at someone. Furthermore, holy crap Batman we get it! She's head over heels for this guy she bumped into for no apparent reason, she has lots of power that just apparently grows and Nora is just chock full of abilities and she somehow has the most pure intent of anyone ever. Seriously, if you remove the copious mentions of Nora and Gavin's "circle", her powers, how much she trusts a guy who tells her absolutely nothing about anything else, or anything else that mentioned 100x too many there would be about 100 pages left. So much wordiness, awkward phrasing, bad editing, and "oh look at this SAT word that doesn't fit! Let's use it anyway!"

TL;DR Had potential but the story is too set on bashing you over the head with religious beliefs and reminding you how in love two people who barely know each other are to fully develop this story into something I'd want to keep reading.