Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories

Engaging dialogue, feisty as well as canny female lead character, smoldering darkly handsome leading male and a supporting cast of characters that all help to round out a tale that brings to mind why fantasy was once one of my favorite genres. The sword fighting scenes were intense, the secrets from Kaia's past that were revealed helped make her more accessible for readers to relate to and her somewhat at times uneasy relationships with others really gave her depth as well.

All in all it is too bad that a particularly unpleasant set of circumstances forced the author to abandon continuing what could have been a delightful series with the planned books that were to follow.