Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Gift of Magic by Lynn Kurland

This is the last installment of the Nine Kingdoms story of Sarah of Doire and Ruithneadh of Ceangail. Their story started in A Tapestry of Spells and continued in Spellweaver.

This book was pretty good--a satisfying end to a good saga. I really like Sarah and Ruith, so I enjoyed reading the conclusion of their story. And of course I always appreciate how very clean Lynn Kurland's romances are. I really like that. There's chemistry, but no sex scenes. 

There wasn't as much action in this book as some of the others and it felt a little more meandering...a little like filling pages rather than the plot driving the story. And it bugs me just a little bit that even though we know Sarah and Ruith are very much in love, there's still the silly little places where Ruith sees Sarah is angry and is in doubt as to whether or not she's going to pull her knives on him. Oh please. And they seem to always be uncertain of each other even after significant commitments have been made between them. That's irritating. It's like the romance resolves and then is uncertain over and over again.

Aside from those minor irritations, I liked the resolution of their "mission". It was a little bit unexpected and definitely interesting. I was glad to have their romance finally settled. It was a good book. I have enjoyed reading the Nine Kingdom series, especially these last 3 books. Will we read more about the Nine Kingdoms? Probably. I'll look forward to it, I think.

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