Rereading with the Mostly Lesfic group. I love Jolie and Hope.

Finished and still love Jolie and Hope. I would be happy with another book focusing on them. Very happy.

5/12/22 - went with the audiobook this time around and while the reader did a great job with emotion and voices and stuff, the regular mispronunciations was a bit annoying. But still better than the text-to-speech app. ( )

In the second book in the Garoul series, the readers are already 'in' on the Garoul's secret, so the author manages to concentrate on the character development of the leads, which results in a much better and emotionally satisfying read. Ambereye is both funny and heartbreaking at the same time. Actually it was more like Jolie is funny and heartbreaking at the same time. Jolie and Hope's office tussels are unforgettable. And I just love it when the characters' personalities are so far apart but the author manages to make them perfectly complementary to each other. ( )

I really enjoyed the humor and character development in the first half of this book. I was less impressed with the development of the romantic relationship through the second part: things seemed to sit still for pages, and then rapidly change without a clear reason why. The way the supernatural element was handled felt very original to me. It was a strong part of the characters' culture, but there wasn't as much of a focus on physical differences and otherness as I'm used to seeing in other paranormal books.