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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780425208915
ISBN number: 0425208915
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 07, 2006
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 88133
Studio: Berkley
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When modern-day Mikki ends up in the strange Realm of the Rose, Hecate has been waiting for her. So too has her gorgeous guardian beast, who soon has Mikki swooning. But to save the realm, Mikki will have to sacrifice her life-giving blood.
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I contacted ZP books several time to see where my order was since it was late. I did not receive any answer back from those jerks!!! I ended up getting a refund from Amazon, but I would have much rather had my book. I will never order off of Amazon.com again!
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Goddess of the Rose by P.C. Cast
This is a lovely paranormal romance. It is like a wonderful grown-up fairy tale. I believe the author even states that she based it on the premise of Beauty and the Beast, but in this case the Beast did not transform into the `usual' prince at the end.
If you are looking for a fast read. This book is NOT it. P.C. Cast builds her characters slowly unfolding the plot with care and grace. This allowed me to understand the characters and to come to love them.
Mikki has a rare gift with roses, she is transported by the Goddess Hectate to the Realm of the Rose and there she meets the guardian or Beast, Asterius. Asterius is treated poorly since all the inhabitants of the Realm of the Rose are afraid of a Beast. Only Mikki has the insight to see the wonderfully noble and lonely soul beneath the beastly exterior. Suffice to say there is a lot of self sacrifice and the novel ends happily. But boy did I cry a lot until it did end happily.
What I took away from this story is the beautiful love the 2 characters had for each other. Many of the romances, just sort state the characters are in love but the reader misses the area of the book in between where the love blossomed. In other words, there isn't a courtship period! Although P C Cast's Goddess series are not fast reads they take the time for this reader to really enjoy the journey!
Reviewed by Steph at Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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I thought the book started slow and flat inthe begining, but it starts to pick when the heroine is sent to the Relm of the Roses. It is there she begins to understand her roots.. She also finds herself facinating and attracted to a beast with the heart and soul of a man. I won't go into every aspect of this novel but I did enjoy the concept of the story, I have always been a big fan of Beauty and the Beast...and I likd the premise of the story, for those who wished the beast never turned into the prince....
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In the past, I've enjoyed Ms. Cast's books. They've been delightful & I read them over & over. This was a complete waste of time. It's slow starting, boring and dull. As much as I love roses & work so hard to keep mine in good health I would draw the line at feeding them my blood. Yuck!!
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A really good 'magic kingdom with dark twists' story of which the romance is almost an inconsequence.
The heroine is a complete nut-case. She Has Issues. She should have started talking to her psychiatrist friend long before she began having strange dreams. I suggest that she should have sought help when she very first started cutting her hands and feeding her blood to her roses. That is not normal behaviour. Even for a rose enthusiast.
This is the very first romance I've read with an undercurrent of man-hate in it. Also there are far far too many women in this story. Mothers, grandmothers, goddesses, handmaidens, actresses to name but a few. Already I feel sorry for the hero. Living in this Land of Women. Some of whom are quite vindictive.
But my main gripe is that by page 91 there has been absolutely minimal interaction between the hero and heroine. In fact. I don't even know the hero's name yet.
Let's look at Mikki's little job. She's an 'executive assistant' in a large hospital. Ok. Another name for a gofer. And what, I suppose, is the dream of an immature gofer. Why. To Be The Boss and have gofers of their own. Which is exactly what happens in Mikki's fantasy. But a 35 yo? Come on. She should have more options than that about what to do with her life. Plus. She can't handle a guy who has different reading tastes from her but is more than happy to accept love from someone who is essentially a slave with a MD.
Getting to the crux. This is a novel about carnal love between a woman and a beast. The hero has cloven hooves and horns. And then the author wimps out by having the pagan goddess Hecate take away his ability to consumate that love unless the heroine begs for it. I mean. The poor guy doesn't control his own fertility. If that happened to a female character do you think it would be acceptable? In a pig's eye it would. That's what I call man-hate. Also the hero is really simplistically portrayed and doesn't really act out of free-will.
tbh. I never liked roses that much anyway. I could hate them after reading this story. Poor Mikki is a slave to the stupid plants. And, as becomes obvious as the novel progresses, she's also somewhat dumb. She must have seen the movie Jason and the Argonauts. Hecate is not a benign goddess. Plus. Those dogs which accompany her should have given Mikki a big clue as to the true nature of the Realm of the Roses, which actually turns out to be a realm of nightmares rather than nicey-wicey dreams. It is not acceptable for a thinking human being to give up her life for the sake of flowering vegetation. Mikki returns to the Realm of the Roses. But I would never have done so. The place is drenched in blood. Ugh. I couldn't really connect with Mikki. She's too earthy and, to repeat, is basically a man-hater.
What I liked about the novel is how Mikki's strange little behaviours are amplified in her fantasy world, but her other worries (job dissatisfaction, lack of a love-life) are completely solved. I thought the author handled Mikki's re-entry to the real world in a very clever, seamless manner. Mikki never spared a single thought for the pain her friends might have felt about her attack and consequent departure back to Roseland. Another characteristic of the mentally disturbed. The more I think about the plot of this novel the more it creeps me out.
But. A few years ago I might have loved this story.
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