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2.5 stars. Style-wise I would swear this is a Lora Leigh book it is so very similar except Lora Leigh uses an editor and Christine Feehan obviously does not. I read a Carpathians book by Christine Feehan and told myself I'd never read another of her books it was so awful. I read this because I want to read the next book, Deadly Game, and learned that you need to read this story first for the next to make any sense. I'm glad I gave this a try. The writing is not great but the story is entertaining and sexy.
The story? Has it's moments. The romance? Meh. The sex? Steamy but written by someone who obviously believes in the g-spot. He's definitely a dominant and she a submissive, but his behavior out of the bedroom borders on bullying. Feehan does explain, and show, how the heroine can accept this in him. The revelations about other characters, the interaction between the twin brothers? Great reading and often funny.
My biggest gripe about the book is that we have a heroine who loses her virginity sitting on a railing leaning against a wall. She experiences almost no pain and has an instant g-spot orgasm. Whenever I read stuff like that I wonder if the writer is a man because no woman has ever lost her virginity with that much pleasure. Furthermore, the author can't keep track of where anyone is located in that scene, first she's against a wall, then there is some kind of railing, then maybe they're on the floor. Stuff like that happens throughout the book. It's confusing and takes you out of the story, reading back pages to figure out how they suddenly got in a bed when a minute ago they were standing by the door.
The heroine is a circus performer. Yeah. And they meet while she is in the CONGO performing circus acts at a music festival. In the Congo. And suddenly there is a jungle - in the middle of Kinshasa. Which is a huge city. And her brother is a former navy SEAL who has left the military to perform in the circus. In the Congo. Yeah.
A final complaint about the book is the obvious lack of editing. "Their" instead of "there", the continuity issues, and the excessive diversions into really boring action - all could have been corrected with a decent editor.
The story? Has it's moments. The romance? Meh. The sex? Steamy but written by someone who obviously believes in the g-spot. He's definitely a dominant and she a submissive, but his behavior out of the bedroom borders on bullying. Feehan does explain, and show, how the heroine can accept this in him. The revelations about other characters, the interaction between the twin brothers? Great reading and often funny.
My biggest gripe about the book is that we have a heroine who loses her virginity sitting on a railing leaning against a wall. She experiences almost no pain and has an instant g-spot orgasm. Whenever I read stuff like that I wonder if the writer is a man because no woman has ever lost her virginity with that much pleasure. Furthermore, the author can't keep track of where anyone is located in that scene, first she's against a wall, then there is some kind of railing, then maybe they're on the floor. Stuff like that happens throughout the book. It's confusing and takes you out of the story, reading back pages to figure out how they suddenly got in a bed when a minute ago they were standing by the door.
The heroine is a circus performer. Yeah. And they meet while she is in the CONGO performing circus acts at a music festival. In the Congo. And suddenly there is a jungle - in the middle of Kinshasa. Which is a huge city. And her brother is a former navy SEAL who has left the military to perform in the circus. In the Congo. Yeah.
A final complaint about the book is the obvious lack of editing. "Their" instead of "there", the continuity issues, and the excessive diversions into really boring action - all could have been corrected with a decent editor.
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