eyes.2c Reviews

Centaurs, I thought. Great! The last book I read using horse mythologies was Robin McKinley’s Pegasus . (Read my review ) But I must say that with Daughter of the Centaurs ( Centauriad #1) b y Kate Klimo, I felt like I’d stumbled into the centaur equivalent of planet of the Apes. (I noticed later that other reviewers referenced this as well) Many, many times I wondered if Malora’s sympathy for centaurs is misplaced. I definitely don’t like them very much. Why, I kept thinking have you given up your horses, your independence for this lot? I see in the Centaurs' attitudes, overtones of the nobility prior to the French Revolution. Yet it's Malora's very aloneness (is she the last human alive?) that forces her to seek companionship and approval even with those outside her ken, yet somehow close enough to draw strength from, although she is treated as some sort of exotic exhibit. The ability to communicate opens possibilities and lessens the solitude. At times this is an intere...

Prepare for a touch of The Illuminati meets the Knights Templar.   Set during the Regency era, the members of the Inferno Club, outrageous gentlemen of the first water, who in secret protect the realm from spurious enemies, are worried that one of their own had been damaged beyond recall and turned traitor by the torturous captivity he's endured. Emily Harper, the Earl of Westwood's childhood friend and gamekeeper's daughter, believes in him with an unwavering and unflinching loyalty and love. She trails the Earl across Europe to give him what support she can. Naturally, the headquarters of the enemy faction is in a secretive forest area somewhere in a German/Bavarian type state. Full of dastardly deeds by evil would be conquerors, Gaelen Foley's My Ruthless Prince , presents us with a strong heroine who seeks to rescue her childhood friend, and in doing so, his sanity. Emily's innocent and unwavering support and love opens the way for a relationship that in society...