Great book. Jean is a great writer. I love Dom's twisted mind to snare his bride. But her's is more wicked. ( )

It was a light easy read. Dominar wasn't an ass. Serina was the forgetful professor type who he could deal with because she's so pretty. We even get to see who is next in line for the prophesy story in her friend, a healer. This is a light easy series to follow. The library though is missing now The Cat, so I'll have to see if Powell's has a used copy to find. ( )

The Third of Sons shall meet his match:
Strong of will and strong of mind
You seek she who is your kind
Set your trap and be your fate
When Lady is the Master’s mate


This book was pretty good and the matching between Dominor and Serina was good. I like series books cause you get caught up on the past characters. So we got to glimpse into the other brothers lives and it was pretty funny at times :)


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Nice. It takes a lot of tropes - some standard, some stupid, and some both - and clothes them in very interesting people and situations to make them actually (more or less) make sense. Male slave bought for sex, secret child, both believing they're the only one in love...Dominor, who was kidnapped, ended up as a war slave; Serina, a powerful mage, needed a powerful male mage to share a Tantric (sexual) ritual with her, and thereby produce a child, to complete some very high-level magic. Misunderstandings, my absolute least favorite trope, are rife - but even that is made almost reasonable. And a happy ending, of course. But this "ending" is the beginning of a lot more. We also learn quite a bit about this world, outside Nightfall Island and its inhabitants; and the author managed to keep track of who knew what when, as many fail to do. So - excellent story, both as a romance and as the next step in the series; this review is on my second or third read, so I already know the rest of the series is also great, but it definitely lured me along on the first reading too. And this is my second or third read (I forget if I reread it when I found the last books in the series); even though I knew the story, it was definitely still worth reading. And I expect I'll read it again. No disposable romance here!
Latest reread:
Funny. I hate the trope of misunderstandings, and that's the primary one in play here, but this is still my favorite book of the series. I covered it pretty well in my first review. ( )

The Third of Sons shall meet his match:
Strong of will and strong of mind
You seek she who is your kind
Set your trap and be your fate
When Lady is the Master’s mate

This book was pretty good and the matching between Dominor and Serina was good. I like series books cause you get caught up on the past characters. So we got to glimpse into the other brothers lives and it was pretty funny at times :) ( )