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idamus's review against another edition
4.0
I’m still not liking the insta love between witch and demon, but, yikes, what a ride.
teresab78's review
4.0
****Reviewed for Prism Book Alliance®****
4. 25 Stars - I recently read Another Healing in anticipation of Depth of Return and really enjoyed it so I was looking forward even more to this book. Depth of Return was the same high quality Urban Fantasy read that was book 1 in the series!
I loved both Alan and North. North is old for his age, curmudgeonly and isolated (by choice). Alan is a little younger than him but eager to learn about his Demon powers. We again get a bit of love at first sight, though not as quick as book 1.
We learn more about Witches and Demons and their pairings, which I enjoyed. I loved seeing the magic happen. We also get to see Jules, James, and Ambient again – it was nice to catch up with their lives! Evil is a foot once again and we get a lot of action and tension.
The love scenes are subdued and not overly graphic, plentiful, or long, making it a sweet romance rather than an erotic one. I liked that it focused on love, family, and magic but still gave some intimacy.
I could see a setup for a third book, and am looking forward to reading that as well! Great series!
4. 25 Stars - I recently read Another Healing in anticipation of Depth of Return and really enjoyed it so I was looking forward even more to this book. Depth of Return was the same high quality Urban Fantasy read that was book 1 in the series!
I loved both Alan and North. North is old for his age, curmudgeonly and isolated (by choice). Alan is a little younger than him but eager to learn about his Demon powers. We again get a bit of love at first sight, though not as quick as book 1.
We learn more about Witches and Demons and their pairings, which I enjoyed. I loved seeing the magic happen. We also get to see Jules, James, and Ambient again – it was nice to catch up with their lives! Evil is a foot once again and we get a lot of action and tension.
The love scenes are subdued and not overly graphic, plentiful, or long, making it a sweet romance rather than an erotic one. I liked that it focused on love, family, and magic but still gave some intimacy.
I could see a setup for a third book, and am looking forward to reading that as well! Great series!
emhamill's review
4.0
This book was exactly the escape I needed during a stressful week: magic, dogs, soulmates, and a baby.
I completely enjoyed North as a character and would have liked to see more interaction with the coven he leads--more magic working, anyway. I got a great idea of the relationships within the group as people but not necessarily how they worked together as witches and their demons. Also liked how the network of interaction between covens is shaping up.
Where North was a fully fleshed character, I got less of a sense from Alan, his partner in life and in magic. I know he was a sexy redhead, a little innocent, but I got very little sense of who Alan was as a person. He was almost two dimensional. Jade the dog had bigger sense of character for me. So did North's little island home in the middle of a lake (which is totally my new aspiration, to own a home in the middle of a lake island in the mountains).
The villains in the book were cartoony but I really felt North's panic and shame at being duped and putting Alan in peril. North's bible-spewing parents were just...gah. Too much. We're supposed to hate them but they're just posturing blah-blah Puritans and we get no sense of who they are as people at all. The witches and demons are more finely drawn and it makes me want to go back and read the first book with James and Ambient (did I mention the couples' names are fantastic? North and Alan, Orange and Randus--So unique!)
The story in itself was enough to keep me reading and engaged despite some of the character flaws. A whole lot of fun was had. Did I mention dogs? Yeah.
I completely enjoyed North as a character and would have liked to see more interaction with the coven he leads--more magic working, anyway. I got a great idea of the relationships within the group as people but not necessarily how they worked together as witches and their demons. Also liked how the network of interaction between covens is shaping up.
Where North was a fully fleshed character, I got less of a sense from Alan, his partner in life and in magic. I know he was a sexy redhead, a little innocent, but I got very little sense of who Alan was as a person. He was almost two dimensional. Jade the dog had bigger sense of character for me. So did North's little island home in the middle of a lake (which is totally my new aspiration, to own a home in the middle of a lake island in the mountains).
The villains in the book were cartoony but I really felt North's panic and shame at being duped and putting Alan in peril. North's bible-spewing parents were just...gah. Too much. We're supposed to hate them but they're just posturing blah-blah Puritans and we get no sense of who they are as people at all. The witches and demons are more finely drawn and it makes me want to go back and read the first book with James and Ambient (did I mention the couples' names are fantastic? North and Alan, Orange and Randus--So unique!)
The story in itself was enough to keep me reading and engaged despite some of the character flaws. A whole lot of fun was had. Did I mention dogs? Yeah.