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Heart Fate (2008)

by Robin D. Owens(Favorite Author)

4.19 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0425223671 (ISBN13: 9780425223673)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley Trade

series

Celta's Heartmates

review 1: {Some spoilers}Okeeey...This is my first book in this genre and in this series. I can't say I liked it very much. The world wasn't so difficult to understand. Some things stayed unclear, but it was because I haven't read the previous books. Still, there was something I couldn't accept. First and foremost the emotions. The novel is so full of them that I'm exhausted after reading it. Truly, it was too much. The divorce caused so much pain to the main hero and I found that surprising. As far as I understood he wasn't supposed to love his wife anymore. The love should have faded. But he suffered so much, it was as if he lost his HeartMate. I mean, yes, it is painful to understand that something you fought for cannot be saved, but to suffer to such extend? Anyway, I liked how ... morethe heroine's and the hero's love progressed. It was slow and healing. Without pressure. Both of them overcame their fears and hurt. But...I couldn't feel it, you know? Especially from the heroine. It was as she loved him just because they were HeartMates. Before she knew they were meant to be together...I didn't feel something strong from her side. The end was predictable and not at all satisfying for me. I would have liked to see them talk about what happened.So... 2 1/2 stars.I don't think I will go back to that world.
review 2: Lahsin, seventeen, is about to come into her adult “Flair” – psychic power – and she’s proving to be very strong. As an adult, she can now repudiate her marriage to her monstrous husband, Grandsir T’Yew. He has sexually abused and tortured her since she was fourteen and during that time her family did nothing to save her from his twisted passions. Alone and afraid, but hopeful for the first time in years, Lahsin escapes from her estate, using her Flair to destroy all the shields and protections around it, and finds refuge in FirstGrove, a hidden, healing place that only opens its doors to the truly desperate. There she meets her HeartMate (unbeknownst to her), Tinne Holly, who has just been divorced from his wife – a terrible ordeal, which has left him wounded and hurting. Neither is ready for another relationship, but they become friends and help one another to heal. Tinne teaches Lahsin to defend herself and Lahsin comes to know a more tender kind of love through his gentle administrations. I’m open to being amused by romances, which is usually as far as I get (mildly entertained appreciation). Most often, I find myself holding back because so many aren’t that well-written. They’re formulaic, calculated, calculating – and I don’t like being manipulated. I was honestly engaged with this particular romance, however. Robin D. Owens has created an actual world/place/setting that stands on its own, with characters who can think about more than what they’re going to do to one another in the bedroom – there’s not even any actual sex until the end! (This is shocking only because the last 3 romances I read I was clobbered over the head by at least one of the characters libido within pages of their beginnings). While I was initially skeptical about the concept of Flair, it grew on me, and eventually I took it seriously. This is the third book in this series; the others are Heart Dance and Heart Quest. One of the reasons I liked it so much was that it was willing to tell a story, more concerned with telling that story well than with getting the characters naked and between the sheets. This entry stands alone well, both as a title in a series, and as a fantasy novel. The romance, while lovely, is incidental. Bravo, Robin D. Owens! less

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