Upon a Midnight Clear was a great story. The hero and heroine were both strong and devoted. Both also had battered hearts that were drowning in sorrow from past losses. They provided one another with a new reason to hope for the future. Very romantic. My problem with the book was the fact that it was so short. It was 248 pages, but the type was so large it was like reading one of my kids' chapter books for fourth graders. There was only room in the book for one love scene. The couple fell in love in one day... there was no time for them to get to know one another. They met, argued, shared a dream, made love, fought the enemy, won the battle, end of story. All in one day. Very disappointing. This story should have been full length. Aiden was an excellent hero character. Pure hearted, but jaded. A man who gave everything he had to the people he loved, and would have gladly continued to do so. Betrayed by those very same people, he had decided to live in anger rather than suffer from the overwhelming pain of his family's treachery. Leta was terrific as a heroine as well. She was brave, powerful, loyal, and very open about her love for Aiden. After living through the devastation of the loss of her husband and daughter, Leta is grateful for the chance to share such affection again. The god of pain, Dolor, lived and tormented people for centuries. He was an exciting and worthy opponent. Aiden was human, yet he destroyed Dolor without even knowing how he had done it. If Dolor was this easy to kill, he would not have survived for centuries. Killing him off this way made Dolor seem like a joke. In the end, this was an excellent tale that never had a chance to be all it could have... no... all it SHOULD have been. Although these are some of the best characters Kenyon has written for a while, they didn't get to have their stories really fleshed out. There was a bit of the annoying "Oh goody" language that Kenyon has been inserting in her books lately, but not as bad as in Devil May Cry. One word seems to stick in my mind: Disappointing. Not because the story wasn't good, nor because the characters were bad. But because both were so good I hated seeing the whole tale robbed of it's chance to sweep us away on a full fledged paranormal fantasy.
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