 | Title: The Hidden Goddess
 Sexual Content: Kissing, sensuality, and Emily finally shows Dreadnought her etchings. Rating:
  Excellent - Loved it! Buy it now & put this author on your watch list. |
Description
In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies.
Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought’s family and the magical elite of the nation’s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily’s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?
Review
Despite the happy ending of THE NATIVE STAR, Emily and Dreadnought definitely have a lot to overcome from the first page of THE HIDDEN GODDESS. From her ivory prosthetic to her disdain for polite tea room conversation, Emily is a woman out of her element. Even worse, she endures all of this for the sake of true love, the conspicuously unavailable Dreadnought Stanton.
As Emily tries to make it through the public spectacle of Dreadnought’s Investiture towards her marriage, it is difficult to see a path to happiness for her and and her harried fiancé. Is happily ever after really becoming the Sophos’s Hollywood mannequin of a wife? While these trials and doubts make the opening of THE HIDDEN GODDESS heartbreaking to read, they also make the rest of the book infinitely more satisfying. Hobson ties everything together in a way I never anticipated (and had me alternating between happiness and laughter right through the epilogue).
In THE HIDDEN GODDESS, Hobson writes us right into Emily’s shoes. It is so easy to share her doubts, her heartaches, and her dilemmas. Luckily, once past the high society constraints and annoyances of the first few chapters, Hobson amply rewards readers (and Emily), with a memorable adventure.
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I need to read The Native Star first!!
ReplyDelete@Bookish - Definitely, I don't think this book would be as enjoyable if Dreadnought didn't have some pre-work.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of these books, but now I am adding them to my wishlist. It sounds good!
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