Sleight of Heart by Aisling Mancy

REVIEWED BY Joanne Swinney

Sleight of Heart by Aisling Mancy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5 Magick♡♡♡♡♡

The power of a writer, words written to unfold a story that hopefully hold the reader's attention. Fiction can occasionally seem very real, even though it is pure fantasy. This book had the power to hold much more than my attention, it embedded its way into my heart that was almost broken while reading this story.

Sleight means to deceive, heart is an organ and is essential to pump blood through our circulatory system giving us life, the means to live and breathe but also the heart can be filled with great love, the feeling of deep affection for someone, to sleight a heart is unforgivable.

Lord Taliesin Solitaire is a vampire that has lived without love for two hundred years because of the greatest deception by his vampire lover. He was also cursed by the fey leaving him mute. How does a man continue through life after suffering in such ways? Strength, he is strong in mind and has immense power. His daughter, Feather is the sunshine in his life, the only sunlight he will ever see again.

Feather, known to others as Lady Iceglimmer, has much love for her father and wishes him to find love. He has been lonely for far to long. She has great powers and will protect her father and family with whatever means necessary. I also wish for her to find love, maybe she will one day if the gods permit it.

Pesha is the son of King Vaida Sinclair or King vile as I liked to call him while reading this story. Pesha is a beautiful young man inside and out. Unfortunately the years of brutality and abuse have left him with the feeling of worthlessness. He has never experienced love, to be loved would feel like a miracle to Pesha. No one would want an unclean, old man. He's not actually that old, twenty two is a perfectly good age but to a Romani that is unwed, it's old. Pesha has many siblings and even writing this is twisting my face up. I wish him not to have brothers because they only intend to do him harm.

The first time Taliesin sees Pesha, he is physically attracted to his beauty and vice versa, they are drawn to one another but yet each have feelings of conflict. The rules they must live by astounded me. Taliesin believes Pesha to be at great risk and wants to save him but Pesha knows of the consequences, he will suffer greatly for his sins.

Aisling Mancy is a phenomenal writer bringing breathtaking stories that make the unbelievable very plausible. He captured my heart with this prodigious book. Tales of gypsies, vampires, fey, shifters, dragons all in one magnificent story.
I highly recommend this book to all Paranormal M/M lovers. You will be blown away on a journey through a world of spectacular fantasy.

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