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1.0 out of 5 stars
Did I read the same book?, July 15, 2009
I've read the other 3 glowing reviews by other readers and can't believe this book got a 4 1/2 star rating! Warning, spoilers ahead!
I'd be the first to say when you read paranormal romance you have to check reality as you know it at the first page, but this is just too much!
Ambrose was "killed" and resurrected by some "DARK MAN" while serving Pancho Villa in 1914, then he was changed into a werewolf. Joyous (our heroine) has a heart condition that caused her parents to abandon her to boarding schools all her life. Poor little rich girl. She ends a bad relationship (not marriage as previously stated by another reviewer) after she loses a baby (because of said heart condition) and flies off to Fiji on a whim on Christmas day.
She meets Ambrose and suddenly they are swamped by zombies and golums and all sorts of icky things. I mean it's one trauma after another. No real reason for the timing and purpose of the zombies is given until much later in the book. They leave the island and go back to one of her many houses she inherited from her parents and the zombies just keep on coming.
By the time you finally find out why the zombies are attacking, the ick factor is just unreal. Then during a battle, Ambrose (in his werewolf form) scratches Joyous. That means she'll turn furry with the next moon. Her heart won't survive the change, so he decides to kill and resurrect her (even though he's never done this before) in the midst of a battle. Then the FAE show up for no apparent reason and she announces she's preggers (after she's resurrected) and the book just ends!!!!
I was so mad when I finished this book I wanted to fling it across the room! If I could give it a 0 star I would! Don't waste your time.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Zombies, werewolves, and island romance , March 24, 2009
Ambrose Bierce, great American writer and lycanthrope has been living in exile on an island in Figi hoping to avoid the attention of the evil Saint Germain. His decade of peaceful living is disturbed by the arrival of a biographer, Joyous Jones, and then a horde of zombies. Trapped on an island as the zombie horde closes in, help arrives from an unexpected quarter; the Wildside fey.
Joyous Jones, a biographer who's been abandoned by every important person in her life, including her parents who shipped her off to boarding as a child because she had a heart murmur, and a husband who abandoned her following a miscarriage, escapes the cold of Bavaria to explore the warmer climate of Fiji. There she discovers that the old news of great American writer and lycanthrope Ambrose Bierce's death in Mexico in 1914 has been greatly exaggerated. Ambrose is very much alive and the pair fall in love. Zombies descend on the island in hordes, making this werewolf romance complicated as Amrose finds himself fighting off the nasties. However, Ambrose must split his magical powers between the fighting ghouls by day and keeping Joyous' heart continuously beating so she won't perish. This is an unusual romantic novel that will satisfy both fantasy and romance readers alike.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another fantastic title in the Divine series!, February 23, 2009
Melanie Jackson has done it again! Divine Fantasy is a slam-bam, horror adventure that combines romance and exotic locale. Joyous Jones, the narrator of the tale, is a witty verbalist that is more than a match for Ambrose Bierce, whom she meets at his secluded island resort. And that is where the fun begins. Between fighting off the walking dead and avoiding the full moon, these two loners find the other half of their souls.
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