Joely Sue Burkhart

Thanks to Kait Nolan for passing this review along. From Saucybelle at A Taste For E-Books , “four dark chocolate chunk cookies for a delicious, spicy, and kinda dark read.  Bravo Joely!”

Burkhart presents an action-packed read that I couldn’t put down (we won’t talk about what I didn’t do at work just so I could finish it).  The mythology was beautifully woven into the story in a way that–if I didn’t quite get everything because I hadn’t heard it before–was well enough explained that I didn’t feel I was missing anything.  I absolutely identified with the heroine, this brilliant and flawed “UnIndiana Jones”, and adored watching her come into her own and go toe to toe with Ruin.  And Ruin.  Delicious. Sigh…there are not enough big, broad muscular sexy priests out there.  Muscles, brains, and magic?  What’s not to love?  Burkhart totally puts the characters through the wringer with this book with at least two cases where it looks like there’s no way they could prevail.  They totally earn their HEA.

Thank you so much, Saucybelle!

Once again, Paperback Writer is inspiring this post with her Cloud Profiles post today.  Since I’m working on Vicki’s story, I wrote down keywords for all three main characters, and then changed the color palette to reflect their personal colors in the word cloud.  What’s interesting is that Wordle doesn’t know which color to give to which word/character, so some of Elias’s words come out in Jesse’s color, etc. But it makes me think about similarities and cross overs. Just because I gave the word “lost” to Jesse, doesn’t mean that Elias and Vicki aren’t lost.  In fact, they are.