Sophia Rose Reviews: Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

Today I welcome Sophia Rose back to the blog with her review of an author I have been wanting to try for a long time. Read all about what she thought of Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews #6 in the Innkeeper Chronicles.
Enjoy!

Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews

#6 Innkeeper Chronicles

Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy

Publisher:  Self

Published:  12.13.22

Pages:  456

Rating: 4.5 stars

Format: ebook

Source: purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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GoodReads Blurb:

From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a fun and action-packed new adventure in the Innkeeper Chronicles! We invite you to relax, enjoy yourself, and above all, remember the one rule all visitors must obey: the humans must never know.

Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans. But it’s about to get even more chaotic when Sean's werewolf mentor is kidnapped. To find him, they must host an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the most powerful rulers in the Galaxy. Dina is never one to back down from a challenge. That is, if she can manage her temperamental Red Cleaver chef; the consequences of her favorite Galactic ex-tyrant's dark history; the tangled politics of an interstellar nation, and oh, yes, keep the wedding candidates from a dozen alien species from killing each other. Not to mention the Costco lady.

They say love is a battlefield; but Dina and Sean are determined to limit the casualties!

 

Sophia Rose's Review:

The Innkeeper Chronicles series is a personal favorite of this author team's fabulous line-up of books. I was so excited to see the latest 'chronicle' wrap up as a serial and be pulled together and edited into novel format for my reading pleasure.

Sweep of the Heart is the fifth book in the series following a sweet holiday novella, Sweep With Me. The series is an ongoing story that is best read in order.

After a little time to themselves and some quiet 'normal' days at the inn, Dina and Sean discover that Sean's werewolf mentor, Wilmos, is missing. The disturbing circumstances of his capture and disappearance are enough that Dina and Sean accept a complicated commission from the office of the Arbiters - host a Galactic Emperor's intergalactic spouse search. Said emperor will give them access to the harsh, nearly inaccessible world where Wilmos is being held.

So, the inn council is watching with interest to see if they'll keep their new rating, if the emperor doesn't come through alive, they'll lose Gertrude Hunt, and the whole galaxy is watching the event of the spousal challenges and 'dates' live stream.  Dina, Sean, Orro, Caldenia, and the added help of Tony and Gaston, feel the pressure.

I was riveted from start to finish and enjoyed meeting new aliens and learning their ways as they stayed at the inn, got Caldenia's interesting backstory, further reveals and updates with the twisted ad hal trouble and the search for Dina's parents. Dina and Sean are a solid team and I loved seeing them working together as work and romance partners. It was fun to have Tony join the team for the event and then Gaston share updates on George, Sophie, and Jack and then stick around to help. Oh, but the fun one was Officer Marais on external security and learning who 'the Costco lady' is.

I was finished all too soon and had the urge to simply click back to page one and go again. With a sci-fi feel from all the intergalactic goings on, but an urban fantasy vibe from the magic of sentient inn, werewolves, and vampires, this series will have vast appeal across both genre lovers.

 

Author Bio:

“Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona is a native-born Russian and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army. Contrary to popular belief, Gordon was never an intelligence officer with a license to kill, and Ilona was never the mysterious Russian spy who seduced him. They met in college, in English Composition 101, where Ilona got a better grade. (Gordon is still sore about that.)

Gordon and Ilona currently reside in Texas with their two children and many dogs and cats.

They have co-authored several bestselling series, including the #1 NYT bestselling urban fantasy of Kate Daniels, rustic fantasy of the Edge, paranormal romance of Hidden Legacy, and Innkeeper Chronicles, which they post as a free weekly serial. For complete list of their books, fun extras, and Innkeeper installments, please visit their website at Ilona-andrews.com.

Sophia’s Bio:

Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.

As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.

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