The angelic Jonah has been battling the Dark Ones for centuries. But his noble spirit has begun to tire with the weight of war—allowing a Dark One to strike a blow that severs his wings and knocks him into the sea.
Anna is a Daughter of Arianne—a direct descendant of the mermaid of legend. Anna’s longing for love compels her to risk her very life to protect and hide the fallen Jonah. And the longer Jonah delays his return to the heavens, the more Anna’s secret passions are tempted.
But as she falls more in love with him, Anna wonders if she’s destined to lose her heart and her dreams to save Jonah’s soul…
I won a copy of this book and was very excited. It was a different paranormal than your typical werewolf/vampire/cat-shifter book. This one had a mermaid for a heroine and an angel for a hero. It made me think of a line I heard once in a movie (I looked it up and it was Ever After) "A bird may love a fish, but where would they live?". Well since this is fiction it was a lot easier to answer that question, make her be able to shift to human.
This was a difficult book to label, it was not really "cute" but it was not dark either. It was a quest for these two soulmates to help him regain his sense of self and goodness.
The ending was great, very tough, but you still get an HEA.
Pretty hot book. Though it bugged me a little at the beginning how much she emphasized how small Anne was in comparison to Jonah. It made me picture this like 5 foot teenager with this 6'5 man, and that was just a little icky. But then I was finally able to adjust it in my head when they stopped emphasizing it.
I loved the heroine's basis in the legend of the Little Mermaid. I love stories based on fairy tales or legends.
The story was good. I am going to reread it at a later date to re-evaluate whether I like it more or less. I am interested to see if there will be other stories set in this world. Labels: angels, mermaids, paranormal
I am feeling better today, yeah!! But on the good side of being sick, since I was only relatively comfortable when I was laying down, I got a lot of reading done, I read Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy and Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind by Karen Kelley.
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I really liked this book. I did not finish The Fairy Godmother and did not read the second book. One Good Knight, at all but I really liked this one. Starting the first book did help a couple times because Godmother Elena was mentioned and her strange horse, ??? cannot remember its name off hand, was in this one. So reading only half of the first book did help a little. Later I know I will go back and try the first one again, I think I was just not in the mood for it at the time. This was a nice warm fantasy adventure with romance, so I thought it was a delightful read.
As the seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina had a wonderful life—but also a lot of responsibility. Her special gift for moving around on land made her the perfect emissary from her father to check out interesting happenings on the surface. In short, she became the family spy.
On one such reconnaissance mission, she encounters Sasha—the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Though everyone sees his talent at music, they also consider him a fool. Ekaterina suspects something more powerful lies behind his facade. But before she can find out what, Ekaterina is kidnapped!
Carried off by a whirlwind and trapped in a castle with other kidnapped princesses at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Which means that fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on. Oh, and of course her own clever mind and manipulative abilities…
I am so far behind on reviews so I am playing catch up. I am simply listing my December reads and the grades for them, if you want to know any more about them let me know.
Gambler's Woman by Jane Anne Krentz (A-)
The Cursed One by Ronda Thompson (B)
Mistral's Kiss by LKH (B+)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (A+)
Sleeping with the Fishes by MJ Davidson (B-)
Hit Hard by Amy J Fetzer (A)
Secret Nights at Nine Oaks by Amy J Fetzer (B+)
Married to the Boss by Lori Foster (A)
Retrieval by Jeanie London (DNF - could not get into it)
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard (A+)
Luscious Craving by Cameron Dean (C-)
Heart of a Mercenary ; Sultan's Ransom; Rules of Re-engagement by Loreth anne White (A-)
Melting the Ice by Loreth Anne White (A-)
Under the Wire by Cindy Gerard (A)
Eye of Heaven by Marjorie Liu (A)
Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor (A)
Unleashed anthology (B-)
Operation G-Spot by Jodi lynn Copeland (A-)
Embrace Me Sweetly by Gena Showalter (A)
Prince of Ice by Emma Holly (A)
Understood by Maya Banks (A-)
Surviving Demon Island by Jaci Burton (A)
She's No Faerie Princess by Christine Warren (A)
