reviews_and_ramblings | Grave Heart (The Collector 2) by Emily Veinglory

Grave Heart is part of a multi-authored series by Loose Id about a collector who is trying to rebuild a totem collecting the different pieces all around the world. Every piece's recollection brings a different story, that could be of different genre, contemporary, paranormal, hetero and gay. The one written by Emily Veinglory is a gay romance, but not overall erotic. Kieran is the man hired to convince the actual owner of a stone to willingly give up it to the collector; how he manages to convince the man, is only his problem. Kieran decides to approach Joshua with a business proposal to then move the transaction to a more personal level; he is a bit surprise when Joshua reveals to be an easier target then expected, not giving so much problem to Kieran to enter his life and his bed. But when Joshua realizes that Kieran has not personal reason to retrieve the stone, his behavior changes suddenly.

There is a strange feeling in the story: there are very highly moving events that happen and has happened in the past, but in a way all the story has almost a detached feeling. It could seem strange but it's the right mood for the story since Kieran has great emotional issue, he has locked his heart and his emotions with it, years before, and his way to approach the life is reflected in the way the book approaches the reader: not full front emotion, but a sideline game to infiltrate the enemy line. And in the end, both Kieran and the book will reach their target only to find out that the intended target were them.

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Series: The Collector
1) Magical Chances
2) Grave Heart
3) Cauldron
4) Eight Arms to Hold You
5) The Crystal Flacon
6) Love Cure
7) This Time Forever
8) The Onyx Palace
9) The Lost Temple of Karttikeya: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/146218.html

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

Cover Art by Christine M. Griffin