Elspeth

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Melting the Ice Witch - Mell Eight I was a little disappointed in this story, it was missing something that the others in this series had. I don’t know if it was the fact that it was too linier, there was more telling than showing, or if it was the character development was too thin. Not to mention the romance felt forced, and left me with a ton of questions.What drew these two men together? Was it a case of Stockholm syndrome with a hefty dose of lust? Lor is over a thousand years old, and Kam is twenty tops what do they see in each other than hawt kinky monkey sex with a younger/older guy? I don’t know, I just don’t see it. We got a quick info dump on Kam’s past, but I still don’t feel that I know him as well as I know, say Jerney. I wish there was a bit more about his power as well. I mean there is a drastic jump from Kam denying his power to adeptly using it to stop two seriously powerful dragons from killing each other. He never practiced his powers when he found out he had them, he just went on with his life as usual. I found this a bit off, I mean if I found out I had a magical power all of a sudden I would be testing my limits, and trying to see if I could do anything else.So all in all, the book isn’t bad, its just simple, and for me missing a lot answers to questions I have. I gave this book three stars is cause of Tori’s antics, he really stole the show in this, and I can’t wait for the short stories about him and Jerney.