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My Forbidden Desire (2009)

by Carolyn Jewel(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0446178241 (ISBN13: 9780446178242)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Forever

series

My Immortals

review 1: I have to get one thing off my chest: it really, really bothers me that there's a character in these books called Durian. Because although dude is supposed to be some kind of badass assassin, all I can think when I read his name is WORLD'S STINKIEST FRUIT. It is a true thing that Jewel goes for some weird names for the dudes in these books. The hero of this book, for example, is named Xia. Tell me, internets, how you pronounce this. Because my instinct is to give that X a Basque pronunciation, but I find it hard to imagine that Jewel really means for this guy to be named "Sha". Because Sha sounds kind of like the name of an R&B singer, like the kind who would have "tribal" tattoos and wear linen shirts with buttons. The plot is thin here - this is more relationship-f... moreocused than the other books in the series - but the characters are strong. One thing that I enjoy about these books is that the heroes aren't fake bad guys. They don't come off as entirely human, which is appropriate. In the rest of the series, Xia seems about 80% id and 20% ego, and the narrative voice here (third-person, but very close to first-person) reflects that. Alexandrine, meanwhile, feels like a very authentic ex-street kid. She doesn't trust easily, she's vulnerable to addiction, and she's absolutely free of illusions, including some of the ones that we all need to get through the world as sane people. This book feels slighter than the others (despite his unfortunate name, I like the one that centers on Durian the best, because the heroine is my favorite), but it's worth a read nonetheless. Having now read the entire series, I do think it's kind of funny how Nikodemus always turns up at the end all demon ex machina to throw down some bro-y wisdom, accept everyone's oath of fealty, and scare the pants off everybody with his freaky warlord powers. He's actually my favorite of all characters (well, I have a soft spot for the psycho-killer nutjobbiness of Kynan Aijan, who always gets mentioned by first and last name), and I like to imagine that he hangs out playing Xbox in ironic hipster t-shirts most of the time. Come to think of it, I'd totally read that.
review 2: OK...I really liked the book. But there was something that freaked me in it. There is a minor character in it, Maddy Winters, who seems, from another characters point of view to be of American Indian descent. So here's what freaked me... My great grandmother's name is Maddy Winters. She was a full blooded Seneca Iroquois. We don't know what her real name was because in those days you covered that up when you married a white man in the northeast. less

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