Wizard's Daughter: Catherine Coulter

Catherine Coulter returns to her well-known Sherbrooke family with a new mystery to solve when Nicholas Vail arrives looking for Rosalind, the ward of the Sherbrooke family. Nicholas's dreams have long been haunted by Rosalind's lovely face and her voice singing out a riddle that has yet to be deciphered. Will these two be able to solve the riddle and uncover the secrets of Rosalind's past before they are stopped by forces beyond their control?

Having never read a Catherine Coulter novel in my life I can safely say that I will never read another one again. This was the worst, most disjointed piece of tripe imaginable. The dialogue alone is enough to make one grind one's teeth in frustration. The characters are boilerplate, mass-produced romance novel types who have no sense of independence and no spark to make them interesting. The only interesting being in this pulp is the singing ghost in the library who tips over chairs and belts out vulgar but quite funny sea-shanty’s.

Her two protagonists’, Nicholas and Rosalind, eventually end up in love (of course) and have to venture into another world called, creatively enough, the Pale. Now, I have read alot of sci-fi and fantasy in my time and I've seen some remarkable world-building. Catherine Coulter's world building however... Not so much. This whole thing seems to be nothing more then an attempt to cash in on the burgeoning interest in paranormal-romance that we're seeing now. I've heard that Coulter is actually quite decent at churning out historical romance novels. Perhaps she should stick with that and leave the paranormal bits to those that know how to do it well.
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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Jove (December 18, 2007)
ISBN-10: 0515143944
ISBN-13: 978-0515143942