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A review by stang_gt3
North of Need by Laura Kaye
4.0
I enjoyed this book, but I didn't love it. The premise of how Owen came into Megan's life was really cute and I liked both characters, but somehow it felt too easy. Megan's so desperately in love with her dead husband she's been mourning him for two years, and yet Owen shows up and suddenly everything's different in less than a week? Not to say I wasn't happy to see her moving on, it just cases of insta-love like this always bug me a little bit.
I loved the way Owen's powers were displayed and his limitations really made him more believable for me. Yes please, build me an igloo! I really enjoyed that he wasn't all powerful. He was very sweet with Megan. I think part of what took this story down a bit for me was that we really don't know much about Megan other than her history with her husband. Because she's all alone at the cabin her interactions with friends and family are minimal at best. I would have liked to see everyone interacting together to get more of a sense of who she is as a person.
Still this is really great quality of writing and I enjoyed the story as I was reading it. I just didn't really fall in love with the characters where I'm just loving them to pieces. I'd look to another book eventually I think. I'm curious how the rest of the series shapes up.
I loved the way Owen's powers were displayed and his limitations really made him more believable for me. Yes please, build me an igloo! I really enjoyed that he wasn't all powerful. He was very sweet with Megan. I think part of what took this story down a bit for me was that we really don't know much about Megan other than her history with her husband. Because she's all alone at the cabin her interactions with friends and family are minimal at best. I would have liked to see everyone interacting together to get more of a sense of who she is as a person.
Still this is really great quality of writing and I enjoyed the story as I was reading it. I just didn't really fall in love with the characters where I'm just loving them to pieces. I'd look to another book eventually I think. I'm curious how the rest of the series shapes up.