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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Summoner of Storms by Jordan L. Hawk
4.0
Now that the series has ended, I can finally write a more comprehensive review about it! Yay!
Having three people in a relationship is hard and not the sort of happy ending you usually expect in books, be they romance novels or otherwise. If you want your story to be believable, you need to balance between the characters, to ensure that each has a credible voice and a reason to want to be there and to make it work. "Spectr" manages that beautifully. Sure, it's not your usual thee-way arrangement, because two of those involved inhabit the same body and one of them is a supernatural being of great power who doesn't really get most human things, but it managed to work from all points of view here.
So, I just love that. You don't often get more-than-couples in fiction and, even though I can write my own (especially inside my head, since I don't seem to do much actual writing these days), it's lovely to see them out of my own imagination, too.
The plot in "Summoner of Storms" is a bit cheesy, but I really didn't mind that - you have a foolish person trying to do something amazingly stupid and, errr, summoning a supernatural shitstorm because of it (not what the title refers to), an epic battle with epicness, the power of love, and a lot of ass-kicking. It was fun, it felt exactly as the end of a series should and I'm looking forward to buying the second Spectr series the moment all the volumes are out, because I don't want to read them novella by novella and wait in between.
Having three people in a relationship is hard and not the sort of happy ending you usually expect in books, be they romance novels or otherwise. If you want your story to be believable, you need to balance between the characters, to ensure that each has a credible voice and a reason to want to be there and to make it work. "Spectr" manages that beautifully. Sure, it's not your usual thee-way arrangement, because two of those involved inhabit the same body and one of them is a supernatural being of great power who doesn't really get most human things, but it managed to work from all points of view here.
So, I just love that. You don't often get more-than-couples in fiction and, even though I can write my own (especially inside my head, since I don't seem to do much actual writing these days), it's lovely to see them out of my own imagination, too.
The plot in "Summoner of Storms" is a bit cheesy, but I really didn't mind that - you have a foolish person trying to do something amazingly stupid and, errr, summoning a supernatural shitstorm because of it (not what the title refers to), an epic battle with epicness, the power of love, and a lot of ass-kicking. It was fun, it felt exactly as the end of a series should and I'm looking forward to buying the second Spectr series the moment all the volumes are out, because I don't want to read them novella by novella and wait in between.