Book Review: The Hidden Goddess

Title: The Hidden Goddess (Native Star #2)
Author: M.K. Hobson
Details: Mass Market Paperback, 374 pgs.
Published: April 26th, 2011 by Spectra
isbn: 0553592661 (ISBN13: 9780553592665)
Reading Level: Adult
Source: Purchased


Description:  Remember, this is the second book in the series.  This description DOES have spoilers from the first book!

In a brilliant mix of magic, history, and romance, M. K. Hobson moves her feisty young Witch, Emily Edwards, from the Old West of 1876 to turn-of-the-nineteenth-century New York City, whose polished surfaces conceal as much danger as anything west of the Rockies. Like it or not, Emily has fallen in love with Dreadnought Stanton, a New York Warlock as irresistible as he is insufferable. Newly engaged, she now must brave Dreadnought’s family and the magical elite of the nation’s wealthiest city. Not everyone is pleased with the impending nuptials, especially Emily’s future mother-in-law, a sociopathic socialite. But there are greater challenges still: confining couture, sinister Russian scientists, and a deathless Aztec goddess who dreams of plunging the world into apocalypse. With all they must confront, do Emily and Dreadnought have any hope of a happily-ever-after?

This review has spoilers from the first book.
The Native Star was on my favorites list for 2010.  I absolutely adored everything about that book.  So could The Hidden Goddess live up to it?  Well, no.  I still like The Native Star better.  BUT I still loved The Hidden Goddess.  It was different, it was certainly a different story and it was much darker.  But I still loved the characters the same and watched them both grow a bit.


Emily and Stanton's relationship is so sweet.  In the first book they fought and fought but the sexual tension between them was so high.  Now that they are actually together  together things obviously aren't going to be the same.  However, I still loved them!   I just wish we'd seen them together in the book just a bit more.


Things played out in a manner completely unexpected.  The twists and turns were never predictable and the ending was a shocker!  I never expected things to end up that way.  In the beginning I wasn't sure what I thought of the end.  But now that a day has passed I think I'm okay with it.  I think I'm actually happy with it.  It was just so different then what I expected that I had to digest it a bit.


So overall I loved this book and the world that the author has created is one of the best I've ever read.  I love the magic, the Steampunk, the history, the wild west... it's all amazing.  I can't wait for more from her!

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