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I was really struggling to get through the first half, but persisted because Sarah at DA liked it so much.I gave it a B. ARRA members who comment go into the draw to win both Bared to You and Reflected in You in print.I started to wonder if because I enjoy them so much I am seeing them everywhere lately or, are Eve and Roarke archetypes.This post only works if I talk about the similarities I see even if I stretch the analogies occasionally Im not here to point out the differences but theyre absolutely there.
I was having a bit of trouble getting into it but then suddenly it occurred to me that Mina and Rhys were a bit like Eve and Roarke. I felt like I all of a sudden had a handle on the characters and found myself sliding happily into enjoyment. Hes now super rich and mostly legitimate but he has little regard for the law, unlike Mina. I could totally see Roarke as a pirate the romantic kind, not the real kind- if hed been born earlier). Both Mina and Rhys had tortured childhoods (albeit for different reasons than Eve and Roarke) and both bear the scars. Also like Roarke, Rhys is devoted to Mina so much so that he plans to single-handedly change the hearts and minds of everyone in England (possibly the world) so that Mina will no longer be villified or discriminated against so she can be happy and they can be together. In Glory in Death, Roarke recreates Eves apartment in his own house so that Eve can be comfortable and have her own space. Because I know Roarke, I had no difficulty seeing Gideons actions in doing this for Eva as a positive thing rather than super creepy. And, because I know Roarke, I had little difficulty in accepting Gideon as being the young billionaire (which really is fairly improbable when you think about it on both cases). Like Eve and Roarke they both have family trauma in their pasts (although again, for different reasons). Like the other man with only one name (yes, I know that Curran has a last name Lennart but no-one uses it), Currans view of the law (in terms of human law anyway) is less than strict. Hes fairly young and wealthy, as Beast Lord, he has control over andor care of significant business and real estate interests and thousands of people. Hes so devoted to Kate that hes prepared to walk away from it all to keep her safe. Kate is a private investigator (and before that she was a Knight of the Order of Merciful Aid which was a cop for poor people) and like Eve, values order. At the start of the series, Kate has virtually no-one she is close to. But as the series progresses she develops close friendships with Andrea (her Peabody) and Derek and familial ties with Julie and Ascanio (although the latter is a work in progress). Eve Dallas had Mavis and Feeney in Naked in Death but 30 books later, she has Dr. It helped me see Gideon as more noble than perhaps others who dont see any Roarke in him would do. Perhaps it even makes me see more romance in the KateCurran dynamic than only appears on the page. Sebastian is a TA for one of Brads history classes and after Brad buys a paper online to get his attention, they start a relationship. I found the second half of the book much more enjoyable than the first.
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