Deborah MacGillivray's profile

outstanding Grail Lore series, 1 Aug 2008

Fate of Camelot continues the story award-winning author Cynthia Breeding began in Camelot Destiny (Kensington, August 2006). From what I understand the series will see a soon-to-be-release, Prelude to Camelot, followed by at least one more in the series. Breeding is quite at home with Grail Lore, but she doesn't just give you the same old Camelot. She peels back the layers of these mythical figures to reveal the people, their wants, desires, needs and betrayals. She is a sensual writer, a strong writer who offers her visionary look behind the veil of ancient lore, giving flesh and blood to Arthur, Lancelot and Gwenhwyfar.

Picking up where Camelot Destiny ended, Gwenhywfar… Read more

delightful start to new paranormal series, 25 Jun 2008

A strange phenomena--when an author changes style or direction, there's often a violent knee-jerk reaction from fans to the shift. You constantly see people complaining about an author doing the same old, same old. Yet, let a writer give you a fresh premise, a plot totally unlike anything she's done before and readers surprisingly scream, 'burn the witch'. I think readers--fans--often seek long time authors out for 'comfort food'. The books may not be exciting, but you know what your money is going for; it's safe. Despite the whines of 'nothing new', when an author makes that about face, they nearly get stoned! Carole Nelson Douglas --long time author with over fifty titles to her… Read more

beautiful treasure from a talented author, 10 April 2008

The Bride of Time is a time-travel, as one might infer from the title, and it's another of author Dawn Thompson's tour de force books that continually amazed me with just how talented she was. Tessa LaPrelle is a scullery maid in Poole House. She speaks proper English, has manners of a lady, but she is nothing more than a maid in the year 1903. On her day off, she stumbles across the self-portrait of Giles Longworth and is drawn to the image of the handsome artist, as well as another of his paintings called `The Bride of Time'. The painting was done in 1811 at the commission of the Prince of England, and Tessa and patrons of the small gallery are surprised to see that it's her face on the… Read more