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Mystic Beach – reviews

Nimue Brown

Mar 26

I picked up these three books from the Mystic Beach series to review, because I thought they looked like fun. The series itself is much bigger, but these three books are closely related and need reading in the right order! Happily the author has a website with substantial notes about how the books relate to each other, content warnings and other useful stuff.

I don't normally read books from the same author back to back, but I did with these three, flat out during a very rough few days, punctuated by a lot of sobbing. If you're in a bad place and need some catharsis, these certainly do the trick. There's also comfort - I find - in watching fictional characters making awful choices and messing up their lives yet somehow pulling through it all in the end. There's hope to be found in the idea that you can mess up badly and still come through ok.

The plot involves a rock band who become super famous, some reincarnation romance, people making terrible choices and a litany of dire relationship mistakes over 15 years. It's unusual to see a romance played out over such a long time frame and I liked watching characters evolve over time in that way. There's a surprising amount of Paganism in here once the first book gets going, and I really liked that aspect of it and the relationship between love and sacredness in the story.

The sex is (by my kinkster standards at least) mostly vanilla, with a teensy bit of kink. The romances are straight. I think if you're picking up a romance series about rockstars in a setting with magical and paranormal elements you probably aren't looking for realism, but at the same time, there's enough that's grounded here to keep the fantasy feeling plausible, which is good. And Gods know, we could all do with some cheery fantasy content here and there. There's an interesting tension between the joyfulness of everyone's career highs and the gutting relationship disasters.

There are some difficult themes in these books - abusive fathers, dead mothers, suicide, bullying, fat shaming, slut shaming… there was more of the substantial content than I'd been expecting. This is handled deftly, with a light touch that doesn't diminish the importance of these topics, but also probably won't shred you unless you're already feeling raw to begin with. The emotional angst will probably shred you though and that's clearly very much the intention. 

I thought I was going to be reading a lightweight distraction. What happened instead is that these books turned out to be very timely for me, and I found comfort and wisdom in them, and far more psychological insight and relationship insights than I anticipated.

More on the author's website http://aislinnarcher.com/

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