Reviews for Love Song for a Raven

The average rating for Love Song for a Raven based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-04-30 00:00:00 Kasey Wilson Lightweight read from EL with miscommunication/misunderstanding playing waaaay too big a part of the conflict/tension. This is the companion to A Woman Without Lies, which I found equally forgettable other than its beautiful Vancouver Island setting and more jerkish hero (EL is great at descriptive settings, which she skillfully and lyrically weaves into the narrative). My main problem with this one is that the MCs are just a little too perfect, and their love is just a little too insta, and the conflict is so heavily based on misconceptions. Raven rescues Janna when her boat overturns in heavy seas, they fall into bed and into love almost at once, but then they both spend almost 300 pages agonizing internally about how the other doesn't REALLY love him/her. She thinks he's still hung up on the heroine of the first book; he thinks she feels gratitude rather than twue wuv, and it gets irritatingly repetitive. (Although not as irritatingly repetitive as the hero of the first book's endless avowals that he'll never find a "woman without lies"--EL sometimes beat things to death in her early books.) Ze prose, it is a bit purplish, the hero's mustache isn't as much a character in its own right as some other EL mustaches from this era but it gets quite a few mentions, the banter is clunky, but the sex scenes are pretty hot as is usual for EL. Overall, while it passed a couple of hours pleasantly enough, it wasn't one of her more memorable stories. But if you like strong besotted heroes who aren't jackasses and heroines who have all the feels, then you might like this one--it is romantic and sweet overall, just not my cuppa (I prefer a more bitter brew ;-)).

Review # 2 was written on 2010-10-11 00:00:00 Elizabeth Schafer After hearing so many raves about the wonderful hero in this one I think I was expecting too much. The story starts out when the heroine's boat gets caught up in a storm and begins to sink. Raven spots her boat going under and quickly arrives in time to save her life. While the storm rages (for what felt like several days) he nurses her back to health and they fall in love. But it's not as easy as all that because they both have wounded hearts and must first come to grips with their old heartaches and insecurities before they can love each other freely. This was an okay read but it just didn't grab me. The hero was a perfectly sensitive, nurturing and tortured guy and the heroine was pretty likable but they had big trouble communicating with each other and spent a huge chunk of the book hiding and avoiding their feelings. I also had a bit of a problem with the speed in which relationship developed. I realize this is a short book but their love seemed to blossom unbelievably quick. There were tons of steamy love scenes but I kind of wish they had spent more time talking than tearing up the sheets. Geez, what a bore I'm becoming :) And the final thing that bugged me were all of the references to what I believe must have been the prequel about a woman (Angel) who broke the hero's heart. I can't help but think that I would've felt more compassion for Raven if I had read that story first.