Reviewed by: Sooz
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Approximate word count: 90-95,000 words
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Author:
Fallen Redemption is R.B. Austin’s debut novel. She
writes paranormal romances and young adult novels. She includes knitting as one
of her hobbies.
You can learn more about Austin on her website.
Description:
Emma’s life
is crumbling. She is laid off from her job, has no family, and decided to wash
away her troubles with a night of drinking. This only leads to more problems as
she is attacked on her way home from the bar. However, vampire-like creatures
rescue her and while in their care, the leader of the group, Cade, falls for
her. Cade and his men have to rid the world of evil, and he doesn’t want to
fall in love again after blaming himself for the death of his wife. However,
neither one of them may be able to stop what’s coming.
Appraisal:
R.B. Austin
isn’t breaking new ground with Fallen
Redemption. She uses themes regularly seen in paranormal books of good vs.
evil, redemption, forgiveness and love.
And there
is nothing wrong with that.
Austin
creates compelling characters that show a range of emotions. The development of
the main characters, Cade and Emma, are believable and inspired. Austin was
able to write the characters in a way that make the readers care about what is
going on.
Fallen Redemption reminded me of Lara Adrian’s Midnight Breed series (at least the
first book), which has had comparisons to JR Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood, but I had never read that series. Several
paranormal creatures are part of Cade’s group whose job it is to hunt evil and
rescue humans from it. These other characters are compelling as well, and could
certainly be main characters in later books in the series. I wanted to learn
more about them – just not yet. Austin does a nice job of not letting too many
people get in the way of the main story.
The
paranormal romance is believable. Emma was brought to the compound because she
was attacked by a Fallen (one of the bad guys) and needed to be healed. Her
initial reaction is that she has been kidnapped, and is frightened. However, as
she realizes she is not a prisoner, she lets her guard down. That’s when Cade,
timid and reluctant in the love department, envelops her, and both go down a
road neither is prepared for.
As expected
with paranormal romances, there were sex scenes, but none of them felt dirty or
gratuitous. When a couple of Cade’s partners had to go out and take care of
some, uh, needs, Austin didn’t go into details about this nameless club sex,
which kept the story moving, but allowed you to understand what happened.
There was
an interesting twist near the end of the book when Cade and Emma’s affair hit a
roadblock, but it couldn’t be the end for them because that doesn’t make for a
fun romance.
FYI:
There is
sex and cursing in the book.
Format/Typo Issues:
No major
issues
Rating: **** Four Stars
1 comment:
This sounds like a book I would be interested in checking out. I will have to keep an eye on this author. Nice review, Sooz.
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