Lord of the White Hell (Part Two) by Ginn Hale - My Thoughts

Lord of the White Hell - Book Two - Ginn Hale

Fun, fun, fun!  I really enjoyed this second half of Lord of the White Hell.  Enjoyed it enough to go checking right away to see if there were more books in the same world.  And there are!

 

But, to concentrate on this one.  Book Two picks up... 10 minutes after the end of Book One.  Seriously, this wasn't a duology by any means.  It was one huge volume snipped in half.  If I can offer any advice to folks that want to read it, read them back to back in one complete experience.  I read Book One back in January and I found, especially with the amount of reading that I do, that I could have used a bit of a reminder on certain things in the beginning of Book Two to make the first couple of chapters more comfortable for me.  I kept having to pause and try and remember the whys and wherefores and whos of the narrative. 

 

That being said, this half of the story of Kiram and Javier and the Hellions and Kiram's family seemed to me to move along a little faster and be a little more action-packed than volume one.  At the same time, our main location moves from the Sagarda Academy to Kiram's home in the Haldiim part of his home town.  Ginn Hale has created a wonderful world that's familiar until it's not.  We get to see a lot of Karim's family as well as more of his best friend, Nestor's family.  I enjoyed that because it brought out another side of Karim that brought him, to me, to full 3-dimensionality.  (I know it's not a word, but you understand what I mean.)

 

Kiram and Javier's personal relationship is taken to what could best be termed the next level and while there are a few lovely sexytimes scenes, they're more romantic than erotic and suit the story perfectly.  

 

If I have one problem, aside from the splitting into two volumes thing, it's that the end of the book felt a bit rushed.  The race to beat the Big Baddie was fine, but the actual climax of the 'battle' seemed over rather swiftly and I felt it needed more gravitas.  I almost felt like the author saw the end coming and couldn't wait to type the words The End.  I wanted more.  

 

Still, this was a terrific read and I'm looking forward to reading the next duology in this world - The Champion of the Scarlet Wolf - Books 1&2.  I'm going to get them at the same time in case it's the same case of cliffhangeritis as with this one.  :)