Sunday 14 August 2011

book review (burning wild)

(read: 14/Aug/11)
      Burning Wild

    Prod dets
Leopard People series, book 2
Pub: 2009, the Berkely Publishing group US
Author: Christine Feehan
Cat: paranormal romance (shapeshifters)
Format: paperback (mid); 472 pp w/ 20 chapters
Whose: Jake & Emma
Age Range: adults

                Synopsis
Bred by capricious parents for his innate leopard-shifting ability, billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum—especially after a tragic twist of fate has left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of an enigmatic woman, Jake’s life takes a detour he could never have predicted.
 
There is something irresistible about Emma Reynolds—something Jake can’t live without. She’s the first human to stir something in him he’s never felt before, so he hires her as his son’s nanny to keep her close. It soon becomes apparent that she may not be all that she seems, yet what’s raging between them is pure animal instinct—out of control, burning wild and as hot as the lick of a flame.

      my Thoughts (review)
This book has it all, a lost man who’s never been a boy. A woman who lost everything but a man she never new, or does she...?  Children. Hot body rubbing against body. Crushing that was never going anywhere and animal natures that win out no matter how hard you hit them.
     
It’s a great book, not only in the two main characters, or the humans around, the drama that is living with him, but we also meet three other leopard people, one that was injured in a previous book, so we get to learn a little more about them, which is always good when the next book comes out—or at least I like the ones that give you more history about people before their books come into play, but then I’m more about the people, and reading because of them, then I ever really am about the book.
     
So this one was nice, longer history threw it, or history, starting from his birth and working his way through until the man he is, the weeks it takes him to get what he really wants, and to see the type of man he really is, rather than what he thinks himself to be.
     
Anyway, this book wasn’t all that bad, something chase in the side of child abuse, I thought, even though he held that hate for himself, I have read a lot worse books. This one at least focused more about him as a man waking up, than him as he was. But yes, this book is more about him, Jake, honestly he’s the book, Emma, is just the woman that opened him up.

Series
Fever, [tb], Wild Burn, Savage Nature,
☼☼☼

book review (wicked deeds on a winters night)

Comes the scorching tale of two deadly foes surrendering to irresistible desire...
(read: 6/Aug/11)
      Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night

    Prod dets
Immortal After Dark series, book 3
Pub: 2007, Simon & Schuster
Author: Kresley Cole
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 359 pp w/ 56 chapters
Whose: Bowen & Mari
Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis
Bowen MacRieve of the Lykae clan was nearly destroyed when he lost the woman he loved. The ruthless warrior grew cold and harsh, never taking another woman to his bed—until a smouldering encounter with his enemy, Mariketa the Awaited, reawakens his deepest desires. When sinister forces unite against her, the Highlander finds himself using all his strength and skill to keep her alive.
     
Temporarily stripped of her powers, Mari is forced to take refuge with her sworn enemy. It’s rumoured that no one can tempt Bowen’s hardened heart, but soon passion burns between them. Though a future together is impossible, she fears he still has no intention of letting her go.
     
If they defeat the evil that surrounds them, can Mari deny Bowen when he demands her body and soul—or will she risk everything for her fierce protector?

      my Thoughts (review)
this book was actually very interesting, since it’s about the witches, and a Lykae, it’s also the book (if you read in order) where meet Cadeon and his brother, though not a great deal about them is know, there characters are there.
     
So it starts at the moment that Bowen locks Mari into a tomb that evidently got him cursed to be mortal, which we learn about, and see, in No Rest for the Wicked, but it’s about what happened to her, and really it starts with Bowen being reassured and then told he had to go get the other out.
               
Anyway, so he does, he see her for something he doesn’t want to see, but then again maybe he does, and the book ends up being about then have a day or two to get through a jungle or someone was going to die—him. It seems her favourite way to go, and I see it but...
               
So that’s one part. Then there’s the love, which is all about him trying to convince her to forgive him, to love him, when he isn’t really sure he wants her—or does he want another?
               
And then there’s the real interesting plot, the one that was new, and more about Mari than him, and yet so much about him that even when you see it you still gasp at the revealing.
               
It was actually a really interesting book, more so than all of the other ones that I have read so far (go by the numbers in the left hand corner). And even though the whole travel thing was a little... over for me, like really, but I see it. It’s the easiest way to get them together and all that but...
               
So it was a good book, a lot I think because when you read book two (or one) you get to know, and feel sorry for Bowen, even the one after its more about him, and what he had lost and so it’s nice for him to have the book, and I think (at least it was for me) that if it wasn’t for all that you might not have enjoyed it all that much, I believe that this is defiantly a book I’m glad to have read when I did, I’m not sure I would have been that into it if I had, like read it first. But it was great, written in the way she had written them all, strong woman, dotting but oh so possessive male, whose how life has become her.
               
What woman could want more in her romance?

Series
A hunger like no other, no rest for the wicked, [this book], dark needs at night’s edge, dark desire after dark, kiss of a demon king, pleasure of a dark prince, demon from the dark, dreams of a dark warrior, Lothaire,
☼☼☼