Estara's Reviews > A Rare Gift

re-read in preparation for the third in the series. I liked it a bit better actually: 3.5 stars (of course Goodreads Challenge won't count this because I read it for the first time this January :P)
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I got this as a freebie from the Harlequin Christmas calendar and it was a lovely little story - with three sex scenes of which two weren't needed in such detail I thought.

The characters and the dialogue worked just right, but the author had set-up a quite dramatic background in the relationship between Calliope, Wiatt and Cassandra which was simply to hurriedly addressed to really work.

If this book had been 250 pages in length, I am sure my grading would have been a lot higher. It was definitely a good taste test for the author's warm voice and I'll try something longer by her, because the plot simply was too cramped in this novella.