| REVIEWED BY FROST |
| "Ware Wishes" by Melissa Glisan |
| Rating: 5 Swords Ware Wishes 5 Sword Rating Melissa Glisan Satin Knights Book 1 Aspen Mountain Press June 2007 150 pp. Paranormal/Erotic/Suspense ISBN 978-1-60168-044-0 Rating: Five Swords http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/more-hot-reads/ware-wishes/prod_60.html http://www.aspenmountainpress.com/images/uploads/WareWishes_72dpi.jpg Ware Wishes is a powerful and emotionally wrenching novel which reaches far beyond the boundaries of sizzling erotica {although that is most definitely present throughout} to grasp at the reader’s heart and throat. In a story that will not be easily forgotten, author Melissa Glisan delivers a continuous roller-coaster pace of excitement, over-the-top sensuality, erotica, and suspense. This is not a novel in which the paranormal and erotic elements pace side-by-side like prancing horses. In the world of Satin Knights and The Retreat, the two elements are inextricably and permanently intertwined. Torch singer Jennifer is a beauteous young woman of innocent desires who contains the dual natures of caoine and bean sidhe: the singer of beauty and the horrid hag of Death. Without her true love, Jennifer struggles to balance her natures. Years of longing for ranchhand Rayn DeSantis, himself a man of paranormal strengths, have left her in emotional pain. When the cruel nightclub owner who calls himself The MacInnes draws Jennifer into his web through his odd and sensually powerful daughter Jane, Jenn discovers the lifestyle to which Rayn has disappeared: exotic dancer. Even more than the sexual congress and potentially violent eroticism of Satin Knights is the secret lurking behind The MacInnes’ covert estate, known only as The Retreat. The threads of violence and supernatural entities lurking there reach back to Jennifer’s past as well as to Rayn’s present, and may alter the future for both. This reviewer is very grateful to know that Satin Knights promises to be a series. Although excellent on its own, Ware Wishes left me hungry to learn more of the lives of Jenn, Rayn, Jane, and their families and friends. Ware Wishes would make an outstanding film with its deep characterizations, intricate plotting, and Ms. Glisan’s unsual ability to make the reader experience the story through each of the senses {including the Sixth Sense.} Reviewed by Frost August 5, 2007 If you would like to be Reviewed by Frost, send an email to frost@jlfoster.biz or reviewed_by_frost@jlfoster.biz with the subject line "Submission." Include the author's name, title of book, publishing house, genre, page count, and an excerpt. |
