Songs of The Wind by Diana Nixon

  

review by Janna Mashburn



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Goodreads synopsis:

Losing Christian hasn’t been easy for Eileen. But she’s not going to give up. Now she has to find a way to bring him back from the magical dream, where he was taken by Eric Lanster. Together with her friend Evan, Eileen goes to France – Meridin’s motherland, where she hopes to find out the mysteries of the dream’s magic. In a small town named Fontainbleau they meet a wizard, who turns out to know a lot of their secrets…
Determined to help Eileen, Evan agrees to complete some special dream piercing training. But he can’t even imagine what he has put himself into. The magic of dreams keeps a lot of secrets. The spells are dangerous and their consequences no one is able to predict.
Friends can become enemies…
The ones they used to call their family can become traitors…
But the ones they love will always be there to help

I would like to add that this is the second book in the Love Lines series.

Songs of the Wind picks up right where Love Lines left off, Christian is missing and Eileen and Evan are on a mission to get him back. The author brings you into her magical world once again, revealing even more about Dever and its Founding Magical Families. There are so many more elements that take place with each chapter. This book showed alternate POV from Eileen to Evan, Evan's POV being my favorite. He was my favorite character from Love Lines and there is even more of him in this book. I loved living inside his head, and getting a feel for all the history and events taking place from his perspective.  The author really explains more of his character, and you get to see a side of Evan you don't see in the first book.  

My only complaint is some of the scenes felt rushed and were lacking in smooth transitions. I had to re read certain parts to make sure I was following with the scene of the book and the conversation that was taking place.

The love between Christian and Eileen is so sweet, and their dialogue were some of my favorite parts.

"She was breaking me apart and loving me at the same time; shattering me into pieces and making me stronger; giving me herself and making me surrender with her every smile. She was like an illusion I was afraid to ruin." - Christian

Once I got to the very last sentence, the author threw me the biggest curve ball and I am still left speechless wondering what is going to happen!  My expectation of this story being wrapped up in a neat little package with a nice bow was abruptly changed. Now I have to wait for the next book! If you enjoy reading about magical worlds and romance, you will really enjoy this book. The author has some of the best creativity and lovable characters I have read. If you haven't read Love Lines, the first in this series, I highly suggest it. This book was a great follow up sequel. I give it 4 stars.

Diana Nixon who provided me with an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review