The Wild Road

The Wild Road (2008) Marjorie Liu

Why yes, this is a floating head & torso romance.

However, as I am on crutches and spending a lot of time waiting, I needed a diverting book to keep in my purse, and since I enjoyed The Fire King (another floaty head romance book set in the same world) I figured, why now.

After all, knowing it’s a romance going on at least prepares me for the inevitable boinking.

Although this is part of a series, I found that not having read previous books was not a drawback–these books seem to be standalones set in a common universe, but you don’t need to have read the previous books to be able to follow the story here, which is quite nice (especially as many of the previous books are out of print).

A woman wakes up in a dark hotel room, unaware of how she got there or even who she is, only knowing that she must run. Lannes is a gargoyle who is all but a recluse hiding from his past–an ugly past where he and his brothers were held captive and tortured by a witch. When he comes to the city to visit an old friend–a human who is approaching the end of his life–he becomes mixed up with with events that neither he nor the woman he meets, understand.

This is as much a mystery as it is romance and fantasy, which is one of the things I liked and that drew me into the story. We don’t know who the woman is or how she ended up in the situation she is now in, and in doing so discover bits & pieces of Lanne’s past, as well as a dark mystery that seems the heart of the woman’s situation.

Was there boinking and luurve? Yes. But there was lots of other stuff too, and the boinking wasn’t the point of the story, so I didn’t mind it so much.

A fun and distracting read–again, just what I needed.
Rating: 7/10

Published by Leisure Books

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