~ BOOK REVIEW ~ Kiss the Dawn ~ Debbie Cassidy

 

Kiss the Dawn (Order of Helsing, Book 4)
Debbie Cassidy

~ Description ~

When it rains in Dracul territory, it pours.

Everything that I thought I knew about who I am is a lie.

My life began on an Isle I didn’t know existed, and now my family want me back. Not out of any familial yearning, but because of a mystical contract that involves marriage, procreation, and the fate of their Isle.

They’ve put a bounty on my head, and my friends are in danger because of it.

I’ll have to act fast, think smart, and use all my resources to save my friends and extricate myself from this unwanted obligation, because there is no way I’m leaving Dracul.

No way I’m leaving my friends and my guys.

No way that I’m abandoning Ezekiel.

If only I could shake off the awful feeling that things may not go as planned.

~ My Review ~

4 out of 5 Stars

The power a woman can wield is prominent in this book. Intelligence, sexuality, powerful physical strength, and fierce ability to love – it’s all here. Orina doesn’t stick to what’s conventional; she sticks with what her heart and intuition tell her.

Because the fate of the world being on her shoulders wasn’t enough, Orina is now forced to face additional expectations that could come later – if she saves the world first. The Isle she was born on, before she was taken, depends on her to save them all from dying of a virus only infecting witches. The catch? Marrying someone on the isle and procreating is the only way to stop it. This would mean leaving everyone she loves behind.

Speaking of those she loves…Cassidy doesn’t hold back on making her readers melt, and does a fantastic job and making her readers feel the same way Orina does about each of the men in her life, normalizing loving multiple men, and not feeling the need to root for one in particular to win out. Instead, readers will be rooting for Orina, and her ability to love each man individually, with equal respect and care, putting her life on the line to save most of them while they all do the same for her. They also accept that she can be in love with other men, and that’s definitely a hard one to make believable, but Cassidy does it with ease.

Orina keeps busy with her Order family, and her friends, as they work hard at solving multiple mysteries in their town, and trying to find answers for her friends with dangerous problems of their own. Cassidy keeps readers guessing all the way through, and let me tell you, will be SHOCKED by the surprise ending! There’s not much I can write about here without the risk of spoilers, but I will say that although I personally would have liked more covered on the mysteries versus relationships, I still say without hesitation that readers will not be disappointed – and will be very surprised – by the revelations on both parts at the end of this book, and will be dying to find out what happens next.