An Ignited Passion by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

Some serious editing and course correction for this series is needed. We, as readers can deal with a certain amount of silliness, but this is stretching my patience. What this book is, is the episode in the middle of a season when the cast gets stuck in a room for the hour and talk rubbish because they are saving money for the end of season finale. Ghosts of parents visit to tell them how fantastic they all are.

Surrogate babies are born, every cast member becomes a soppy wet girl with a vocabulary consisting of ‘cutie’ & ‘hoot.’ They have dinner around a table. Was this just filler for the book? I don’t mind the magic element that’s been introduced in the series, but this was cringeworthy and served no purpose to the narrative. OMG, I’m shrinking into my chair & wishing I wasn’t a gay man. Ghosts of all the cast’s dead parents visit them, to inform them about how proud they are of their gay sons, their husbands and children. Why could you not just keep them as babies and tell a true parental story of gay men having children? And I can’t even bring myself to talk about the two newborn babies that are mated. The idea of surrogate children is great but this was a comedy that just had me rolling my eyes checking the percentage of the book I had left to read. Ridiculous! At least try & keep to some confines of nature, psychics, biology, evolution and psychology. They can shape change, understand language and human behaviour in about an hour. Riley and Mateo play mummy and daddy, get turned and skip back in time for tea. This should have been the actual full narrative! All the conflict is right there! Should they? Shouldn’t they? But it’s glossed over and forgotten. And all because their newborn baby can see the future and knows that Riley will be killed.

Watching my mother put on makeup is more traumatic than how Riley & Mateo got treated here. The author takes two of the original and arguably best couples in the series & does the unthinkable (I’m not talking about how they’ve become mentally and emotionally female, I’ll talk about that later), they casually change them into Werewolves in the time it takes to boil an egg. It’s also difficult to express my reasons without spoilers so I won’t try on this occasion. I’m trying to find something positive to say, but I’m struggling a bit. Yes, it is my least favourite of the series. What you should do here with this book is treat it as a weird dream sequence & forget it ever happened. “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” They should retitle this book ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills & all their repetitiveness’.

An Ignited Passion by Sandrine Gasq-Dion