Lover's Knot by Karen Chance

A Spoiler Free Review

See, it’s really the Dorina side of things that has me so frustrated with the Cassie books. Lover’s Knot is an excellent example of Karen Chance’s skill with both narrative and action. Dorina’s vamp skills used to do Mircea flashbacks that also inform the current Dory narrative was very well done, in my opinion. Plus, both stories were engaging in their own rights. The fight scenes were easy to follow as well, which is a bit hit or miss with Karen Chance’s work.

I really enjoy Dory and Kit working together. Their personality clashes are just awesome to behold. Radu is almost always a treat and he was excellent here. The addition of Elise to the their team was just icing on the cake. She might not have done much overall, but I like her and hope to see her again in later books.

The pair of interwoven narratives were nice and tight, I thought. There wasn’t any wasted space and zero sidelining. I actually enjoyed Mircea’s past for once. Jerome… eh… I could have done without him, but the narrative needed him to, ya know, get started. Also seeing “baby” Dorina was nice. I’d somehow gotten it into my head that Dorina had been much younger than she was when Mircea set her minds apart, but, nope. Apparently 10-ish.

I’m not sure there’s much more I can say without spoiling things. I liked this one.