🤪 I Must Be Slightly Out of My Little Mind Buddy Read (IMBSOoMLMBR™) with the MacHalos and stuff 🤪 I certainly don't care enough about the plot to push through the parts where Grace wonders about how Stephen's scarred hands will feel running across her body. As I've explained the romance stuff is not enjoyable to read, but the plot is also pretty weak. It gets really frustrating to read.Īt the point I'm giving up at, the book is around a 50/50 split between progressing the plot and 'progression' of the romance side of things. What ensues is a will they won't they where they both feel literally the same way about each other and constantly think about how much they want to see each other without their clothes on but they're both completely convinced that the other person isn't at all interested. Grace is a perfume maker in the city and gets rescued by Stephen from some followers of the Hanged Mother who are rather nasty folk. Long story short many of the paladins go bezerk and kill innocent people, many more kill themselves, and just six are left including Stephen, so they have a bit of a reputation. It's set in a world where each god has dedicated servants and Stephen is a paladin who belongs to a god that dies.
This book is a blend of fantasy and romance. Honestly I'm just fed up with constantly reading about how much Stephen wants to have a peak at Grace's chest. Middle-aged protagonists, authorial humor, and all.Īll set in the world of The Clocktaur War duology, also recommended. If you liked the author's Swordheart, one of my faves, well, here's a triple dip of more like it.
I did not get hung up the second attempt (though all three volumes have some quite grisly bits), breezed through the second book which turned out to have my second-favorite character, a most unusual nun, and quite enjoyed the third which had all the developments for my character-of-interest I could have desired. In order to get properly to him, I circled back to the beginning. But I ended up reading the Kindle sample of the third on some random browse, and was quite taken with one of the main characters, the lich-doctor (coroner, and what a great fantasy job title for it) Piper. I'd started Paladin's Grace quite a while ago, but hung up on the horror elements. I much prefer this style to dragging out the first romance absurdly far with endless interruptions or, worse, take-backs. Also the two sequels, Paladin's Strength and Paladin's Hope, which are a braided trilogy of the structure familiar to Romance readers, where each of some association of persons - siblings, workmates, team members, whatever - gets their One True Love, not smoothly, but the setting or plot is drawn out to further volumes with another supporting character from the first round getting their romance.
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