Awaken

A lot of ups and downs with this book. I really enjoyed the beginning since it was so different than I was expecting. I like that the stories are all connected. But after Rosamond was freed from her curse, she was very flippant about her emotions. She strongly desired Siward (somehow he was the perfect carbon copy of Sir Varen for her to be confused??), then hated him for “stealing her virginity and lying about who he was”, was angry about him “stealing” her throne for all of two seconds and that ended because of her lust for him. Annoying. And Siward's weird and pretentious thoughts were bothering me. Teetering a bit on “holier than thou”, I did not like how he was like “If one more night is all I get with Rosamond, I can die happy because no woman could ever compare to her beauty” and how “noble” he was being about waiting for their wedding night when she wanted to have sex by the fireplace was weird. The men in these books view sex in an odd way that I can't explain with words but annoys me nonetheless.

Almost burning Rosamond at the stake was an interesting plot development that I did not see coming, and that coup was effectively written.