Review- Cards of Love: The Moon by Sierra Simone

This review, like this book, will be short.

While reading the New Camelot trilogy, I did not like Merlin. 

I didn't like his high-handedness and his propensity to fuck everything up for Greer and make her feel bad. I didn't think he would get a story, because I didn't think there was any story to tell. I just thought he was a high-handed prick who liked to control his surroundings and people in it. Did I think Merlin had a back story? No. Did I think he had this kind of back story? Hell no. Sierra, obviously, did. And what a wonderful story it is. 

Merlin, is not of this world. Or rather, Merlin comes from a different time, and he is here to serve his purpose. There is magic at work here, and any way he looks at it Merlin is doomed. Doomed to love the same woman, and doomed to die the same death. There was a reason for the way Merlin acted in the previous books. Everything was timed. All the ups and downs of Ash-Greer-Embry had to happen the way it did. Did this finally make me like Merlin? 

No, not really. Nimue made me like Merlin. She made me feel endeared to the man who loved one woman his whole life, and lived his whole life knowing he couldn't have her. I love how he submitted to her (yes Nimue is a sadist!). Their love for each other made me see the other side of him. And finally, I could connect with him. 

Nimue was fantastic. She gave as good as she got. But she made mistakes that cost her. At times I found her to be heartless. She made Merlin suffer, the way she'd been suffering. Perhaps even more so. But this is the dynamic of their relationship. It was beautiful really.

Sierra has once again written erotica that is smart. The people who say that's not possible, should really read these books. And, the sex... Well, you know she's the queen of that too. 

5 stars. 

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