If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ll know that this pairing has been teased for the past 9 books but the long-simmering attraction between Hawke and Sienna really ramped up in the past few books. But hopefully, in the course of this deep-dive, Melinda and I will lay out for you all why we think this book and this pairing works, even with the age gap. And I know this pairing is polarizing for some, perhaps because of the age gap. Nalini has stated in previous interviews that she had to wait for Sienna to grow up before she could write this book. Hawke, while it never explicitly states how old he is, with the help of Google, we can estimate that he’s maybe in his mid-30s. When the book begins, Sienna is almost 20. Kiss of Snow is many things, among them, it’s an age-gap romance. Melanie: Since Melinda brought up the age thing, let’s just address the elephant in the room. I love this because it’s a simple way of showing her youth right away and we can see how she changes throughout the book from this opening. “If you open your mouth again without permission, I’m putting both of you in the pen with the two-year-olds.” Hawke has been resisting his attraction to her because she’s been too young – which, yes absolutely she was too young! – and the book opens and shows an example immediately of Sienna being too young for him when he has to break up a fight she’s in. There is just so much packed into this book 2 full romances, the war between Psy and Changelings comes to a head in a battle, Sascha has her baby, the Laurens come out of hiding, and those are just the main highlights.īut we’re going to begin with Hawke and Sienna because this is the culmination of the first nine books that Nalini has been teasing us with. Play of Passion was no plot, all vibes as I said last time, and Kiss of Snow was full speed ahead, ALL plot, ALL vibes. Melinda: We have been talking about this deep dive since January lol! And as we’ve gone through each book and I’ve been surprised at some of the characters and plot points that got lost to time in my memory, I am so happy that this one lived up to my expectations and memory of loving it! Hawke was more of an asshole than I remembered, but an asshole that I could still love thankfully. (Also, who’re we kidding, there’s no scenario in which we weren’t going to jump into Kiss of Snow the very second it was time for book #10). That’s not to say we’re ignorant about all of the many (MANY) consent issues found within but it’s a good thing we decided to read this book at the beginning of the month because we have a LOT to say.
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