by Lynn Viehl
I really enjoyed the Darkyn series (5 stars for all) but this spinoff wasn't up to par. It was very hard to get into and jumps back and forth in time (ancient Rome, 1998 and 2008) with different, seemingly unrelated characters and newspaper clippings that totally came out of left field. Over half...
This book was good, but being the first book in the series there were couples in here which I didn't remember and I have a few of the Darkyn books so I was looking. Also the beginning was a little confusing and then throwing in a character who mentions the heroine's old love's name but with no expl...
Not as compelling as the earlier ones in the series.
I loved the original series, the Darkyn, but this one, not so much. This book just seemed to drag, and I had no interest in the main couple. I was more interested in a secondary character. Hopefully, as the secondary character takes center stage in the next book, the series will pick up.
From the first was intrigued by the idea of the series being a "spin-off" of the previous characters with the twist being that the "Darkyn" were the result of a sort of "curse" and the "Kyndred" the result of evil scientific experimentation. I am a staunch Viehl fan and was very happy to find out wh...