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Originally Posted by Blossom
I belong to their club so I know I have this. Let me know if you read it what you think of it. I get 5 new titles from them a week. It's a little overwhelming to pick the good ones out.
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A quick review of Incandescent by M.V. Freeman, from Crimson Romance, the daily romance deal a couple of days ago, I bumped it to the top of my TBR because something about it appealed to my mood at the time.
Anyway, I ended up really enjoying it.
However, there are things about it that might not appeal to the typical romance reader. For one thing, the hero is somewhat morally ambiguous. I read lots of UF so I'm used to that and like it, but he definitely wouldn't fly as your typical upstanding romance hero. He's pretty ruthless and uses the heroine and her powers "for the greater good" without much regard to how she feels about it. Also, there is more focus on the worldbuilding (which is actually pretty good), and the action, then there is on the romance (which is nonexistent until about 2/3 of the way through the book). When the h/h do get together, it's pretty explosive, but it's definitely not love, and there isn't much build-up to it - it pretty much comes out of nowhere. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger, but there are plenty of loose ends. All in all, the book has more of a UF than a PNR feel - again, a positive for me, but YMMV.
As soon as I was done, I rushed to the author's website to see when the next book would be out, so that tells you how much I liked it, but sadly, although she has completed the next one, there was no release date.
