Genre: Fantasy
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Linda, Paranormal Romance Guild
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About The Book
A reluctant heir. An insidious power. What is privilege when his own magic threatens to take him under?
Meran Durante is distraught. An unwilling heir to a bitter and critical father, the young Durante now fears he is also the beneficiary of the oft anticipated, seldom true, seer-sight that has flickered through his mother’s family for centuries.
Nightly, a single tragic spectre fills his dreams, driving him to the edge of sanity, until one fateful night his plight is discovered. Acceding to his friend’s unconventional distraction from his woes, Meran finds fleeting relief sheltered within the unique magic forged from the unexpected liaison.
But realising his own agency is in peril, he searches out an alternative solution to fend off the dreamland’s insidious call before his mind is shattered forever.
When his friend goes missing, can Meran wrest control of his magic before it is too late to save either of them?
Meran’s Reproach is the tempestuous second book in the Legend of the Ancients – Books of Locurnia Fantasy series. If you like emotionally charged fantasy, tortured heroes and magical awakenings mixed with high heat, then you’ll love Deonne Dane’s tale of one young man coming into his legacy.
The Review
Meran Durante is a young man whose nights are filled with nightmares, reliving his older brother Beorn’s death. Meran is now the heir, something he never wanted. He is filled with a mixture of love and resentment toward Beorn, since he knows he can never live up to his father’s expectations of him.
Meran’s father, Lord Marshall, expects his son to follow the rules laid down for him – rules Meran consistently ignores. The nightly visions of his brother’s death plague him, and when he finally finds a release, it just puts him in more danger. After a vision, his friend Ellom comforts him and puts Meran in the position of submissive, settling his mind and allowing him to finally fall asleep. Unfortunately, Meran had never considered have sex with Ellom before, and now he tries to keep it from happening again.
Meran’s father wants him to be a seer, but he can’t seem to wield the power – all he can do is nightly enter the dreamscape and relive a painful vision of his brother and other men dying painfully and horribly.
One of his friends, Jon, is an artist, and his father was going to be his patron until he decided to renege on his promise in order to to teach his son a lesson after he once again disobeyed and caused Lord Marshall embarrassment. When Jon is offered another patronage, he asks Meran to accompany him, and despite pleas from Ellom, he goes.
What happens to him is something he must live with. At the time it was what Meran desired, but it was a betrayal and embarrassment when it was revealed to his father.
When Lord Marshall takes away all his liberties and control of the money left to him by his mother, all Meran can think of doing is to find Ellom, to apologize for not accompanying him and to discover why Ellom went to his father to reveal where he was.
Now Ellom is missing, and even the magic that the Voce have to be able to track someone, no one can find him. This will change Meran’s life, and set him on a new path.
Wonderful characters, explicit sex, an orgy, secrets and surprises, and a young man trying to find his magic. I can’t wait to pick up book three to follow Meran when he meets Falric, and discover what the gem is, to finally get some answers to the questions that were raised in book one. 4 stars.
This series must be read in order.
The Reviewer
I am an avid reader the mother of 3 sons and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Since retiring I have been doing more reading while volunteering as a CASA worker. CASA is an organization that works with the family court system to ensure that children are in the best living situation. There are way too many children that get overlooked in the foster care system and I visit homes and make visits to the parents. I was born and raised in New York and my husband of 50 years and I live in Upstate New York.
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