REVIEW: A Change Of Season by Anya Bast

A Change of Season by Anya Bast is my second foray into her fantasy/paranormal work. You have two really hot heroes, smok­ing hot love scenes and some magick. Alas, no book is per­fect and this book is far, far from per­fect. Is the enemy of my enemy, my friend? I just used that quote because I like saying it. It has noth­ing to do with the book.

Our pro­tag­o­nist is Moira and she has pre­cog­ni­tive abil­ity and can some­times see into the future. She is also an empath. Thus, she lives alone for the sake of pri­vacy and peace of mind. Lately, she’s been having “psy­chic attacks” with images of two men and she doesn’t know their con­nec­tion to her or to each other. As each day passes, the attacks get worse and so she decides to seek out both me in order to stop these attacks. Alas, she only knows where one is located and so she searches for Dain.

After the war between Nordan and Sudhra has ended, Dain comes home to find things much changed to his dis­sat­is­fac­tion. Cer­tain events take place that makes Dain out to be feared and rumor spreads far and wide. A recluse, Dain has no social skills when it comes to meet­ing pretty women who want to talk with him. Moira shows up at his gate and begs audi­ence but Dain tries to live up to his rep­u­ta­tion. Need­less to say, Moira doesn’t believe the talk about Dain and con­vinces him to let her in. Once inside, Moira has another pyschic attack that pulls at the caring, nur­tur­ing, lusty side of Dain.

Even­tu­ally, Dain’s twin brother Kil­lian comes to call and together these three can burn up some sheets, ladies. When they resurface, the plot kicks in even­tu­ally when Dain, Kil­lian and Moira go in search of the other man in Moira’s “psy­chic attack” who goes by the name of Cyric. There is a his­tory between Dain and Cyric and it costs Dain emotionally to go in search of his enemy in order to stop Moira’s vio­lent psy­chic attacks.

There’s the usual contrivance between the two main pro­tag­o­nists. Dain finds peace with Moira but feels he can’t keep her because he feels that he may inadvertently harm her. Then there’s Kil­lian who I prob­a­bly liked more and their rela­tion­ship was..hmmmmm.

The prob­lems with A Change of Season as I saw it were these:

• The  dia­logue was stilted, awk­ward despite this being a fan­tasy novel
• Edit­ing issues - it was annoy­ing and this by far is the worst I’d read from EC
• The plot was rather thin but this is roman­tica and plot is usually an afterthought
• The ending: while it did end with some fight­ing and stuff, the rev­e­la­tion of why Moira had her psy­chic attacks was rather weak to me.
• The world build­ing not very clear nor did I care much

Need­less to say, I wasn’t as engrossed in this book as I was with Winter Plea­sures where there was better chem­istry (to me). The book could have fared much better with a tighter plot, better edit­ing and better dia­logue. If your look­ing for a dif­fer­ing opin­ion, Dear Author did a more favorable review of this book.

My grade for this effort is a C+. Note that this is book 5 in the Sea­sons of Plea­sure series. I’ve not read all of them nor am I going to read them in order. Each book in a series should stand alone and the author does catch you up if you haven’t read the pre­vi­ous books in the series.

Tagged as: Anya Bast, Ellora's Cave, Erotica