Book 91, 2019
Nov. 15th, 2019 06:19 pm
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I stayed in the office for lunch yesterday, which enabled me to read the final two chapters of Master of Fire by Angela Knight. It's the 6th installment in her "Mageverse" uh, verse, which I didn't know, or I might have tried to read the books in order. Ah, well. Main characters are Logan MacRoy, the mortal son of King Arthur (who's an immortal vampire) and Guinevere (who's an immortal witch), and Giada Shepherd, a newly created witch.
Giada has been tasked by Arthur and Guinevere to protect their son. Someone has been targeting and killing Latents (those who possess the ability to become a vampire or a witch), and Logan is a Latent who has been resisting his inevitable change into a vampire. He works for a police department in the mortal world, specializing in explosives and forensics. Giada has a degree as a chemist, and she is assigned to work with Logan as her cover. Logan would be furious if he knew his parents sent a babysitter, plus he's wary of witches, for fear one will try to turn him into a vampire by having sex with him. Bzuh? Moving on...
Giada saves Logan from a couple close calls, which he doesn't even realize. She soon learns that she's up against someone who's no mortal, as her magic is having difficulty tracking him. In the meantime, someone takes a shot at her, and of course Logan decides the only way for the lovely chemist to be safe is in his house, where, of course, they can't keep their paws off of one another. Now, Giada has to contend with the 'oh god, he's going to hate me', while Logan knows he can't take up with a mortal woman, and...yawn. At least the sex scenes were scorching hot.
The story itself was compelling and exciting and even a bit scary. I just could have done without the personal angsting and the twu wuv too soon aspects. Even though I came into the series so far into it, I didn't feel I was missing out on too much. I did wonder, however, why Arthur and Guinevere only had one child (that I recall mentioning) when they were both about 1500 years old. Uh, wouldn't they have literally dozens of offspring? Anyone? Bueller?
Favorite line: She had all the willpower of a roll of wet toilet paper.
Objectively, this was an excellent story; subjectively, I wasn't that enamored of it. I'll be generous and give it a score of 4.