Robin D. Owens Reviews

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Added February 24, 2006

Summoning Book 2: Sorceress of Faith

Author: Robin D. Owens
Publisher: Luna Books
Available At: Bookstores Everywhere
Publishing Date: February 2006
Genre: Fantasy: Romantic
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 0373802218
Author Email/Website: www.robindowens.com
Reviewer: Cyndi Witkus
Rating: 8.75 Gargoyles

Marian Harasta has been having nightmares of a place. Blackness surrounds her and threatens to consume her. For this professional student with pagan leanings, life is hard enough as she's the protector of her brother. Only when her mother gives her an option that would give her the money to be able to do what she wants as long as she fulfills coming to an elegant dinner does Marian realize that she needs more than what is there. So on the full moon night, before the big shindig, she does the full moon ritual and lands somewhere not of Earth.

Jaquar is from the Tower community and a sorcerer of weather. Though he believes in helping the world of Amee, he knows that getting the other sorcerers and sorceresses together will be almost impossible. Yet, when the summoning time comes, he's there with his own plans. When Marian arrives, naked and scared, he is touched, but he knows that she is the way to make recompense for the deaths he caused by bringing a killer within the Tower community. Yet, Marian defies the seduction he sets by choosing someone else, the known hermit, Bossgond. He teaches her the basics of the magic she possesses inside herself, and when she learns of her destiny by Alexa, another Exotique, she tells them simply that she can't stay as she must return to help her brother who has a grave disease.

I've read Guardian of Honor, the first in this series, and now with Sorceress of Faith, I must say that Robin Owens is getting better and better. This book hit upon things that had my curiosity from the last book, plus it also helped to prime me for the next release (which won't be until 2007, *sigh*). Ms. Owens writing is better than ever, and you feel the electricity (pun intended for all who read the book) between Jaquar and Marian. Personally, I think I'm in love with Tuck, Marian's hamster. Never in my life have I had visions of Disney's Cinderella so put in my head with a spin. This story is deeper, more erotic, yet more emotional than the previous story, but at the same time, the harmony is complex and complete as the second story. They often say that the second book is the telling book, the one that gives you the depth and explanations. This is such a book and one I recommend you don't miss.

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