Ok.
So I just finished reading the numero uno book on my wishlist "Reckoning" by Lili St. Crow.
How anticipated was this book for me? I took off work early to go to Barnes and Noble to buy it since the publisher decided not to make it available in e-book. (stupid fucking publishers. just know this is the last time I do this)
There are major spoilers in here. Sorry. But I needed to vent and I cant be arsed to dance around the facts.
The book begins with our beloved heroine Dru on the run in a stolen Subaru (alas it does not appear to be a Forrester) with Graves riding shotgun and Ash quivering in the back seat. Apparently turning back into a human after all that time as a wolf as been a pretty major mind-screw.
Things are all knotted up with Dru and Graves. Yeah she just saved him but he blames himself for that. And blames herself for him getting captured and then theres' the whole "blooming" issue.
Apparently the pretty quotient on Dru has skyrocketed and she's a little peeved Graves hasnt mentioned it, and she's also tetchy that she cares if he notices.
Nontheless they are on their way to the only safe place Dru has on this planet, her Grans house in the Appalachian mountains.
While there Graves finally admits he loves Dru, but in the next breath he's telling her he's not good enough for her. Very confusing, but also very Graves. Who as we all know has owned my heart since the first book.
Graves is the sort of character that readers covet when they find. He is the heart of this series. He's unwavering devotion to Dru and just general awesomeness have sparked some serious fan-fic in my head.
I still hate Christophe. I wouldnt care if he threw himself in front of a friggin bus, he's not Graves, he's got the emotional depth of a teacup. I hate that he smells like apple pie, and his slobbering all over Dru and his secrets and his general shadiness.
Unfortunately all the little teen-squees are all "OMG He's totally hot and sort of like Edward Cullen"
Gag.
And the thing in I was pretty sure Lili St. Crow was on my side with his. Dru and Graves deserved a HEA.
Why would you write such an awesome guy like Graves and then give him such a shit ending?
Excellent fucking question, and if I ever talk to Lili St. Crow I'll ask her.
Reckoning is almost pitch perfect until chapter 39...buy more on that later..lets go back to Chapter 37.
Chapter 37 is writing perfection in it's most satifying.
