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Not a fan of this book unfortunately.
Instant love on the hero’s part and fast sex. The book is all about the sex with a side plot of planetary rebellion/heroines family. Heroine says she doesn’t even like him then lets him basically rape her against a tree. I mean she didn’t protest too hard but still, it was super rapey.
Almost no character development. I know basically nothing about their main character except how they like to orgasm. I can’t say I got into either of their characters. The hero has to have her but yet came off as cold and distant at the same time. The heroine wasn’t likable to me either with her having no backbone.
No I hate you! Let me see my brothers! *has sex repeatedly with offender*
Just nothing deep enough in this story to make me read past 60%
Instant love on the hero’s part and fast sex. The book is all about the sex with a side plot of planetary rebellion/heroines family. Heroine says she doesn’t even like him then lets him basically rape her against a tree. I mean she didn’t protest too hard but still, it was super rapey.
Almost no character development. I know basically nothing about their main character except how they like to orgasm. I can’t say I got into either of their characters. The hero has to have her but yet came off as cold and distant at the same time. The heroine wasn’t likable to me either with her having no backbone.
No I hate you! Let me see my brothers! *has sex repeatedly with offender*
Just nothing deep enough in this story to make me read past 60%
Finally finished Lenora Bells Blame it on the Duke. It took me 11 days which is like 10 days longer than usual to read a book. I just couldn’t really get into it. The first day I read probably about half of it and it didn’t really stir anything in me. I picked it up repeatedly over the next week but it just couldn’t hold my attention for long. I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The heroine, Alice, I found rather uninteresting. She didn’t annoy me but I didn’t love her. I guess she was just kind of there lol. Her father “wins” the hero, Nick, for her as a husband in a game of cards.
Alice is working on translating Kama Sutra text. I didn’t mind this as part of a plot line, even though it was rather silly, yet I felt that it didn’t really fit with the book. It fit a few scenes and basically gave an excuse for some exploration between the main characters.
I will say I find Lenora’s love scenes descriptive and usually interesting. They seem almost more detailed in some ways and slightly more risqué in a vanilla way. I’m sad that in the two books of hers I’ve read there’s only been 1 or 2 scenes. I guess with the Kama sutra involved I was hoping for more. 😆
I will also say I didn’t really feel the tension in this book and that is one of my favorite part parts of a romance.
The hero didn’t really do much for me either. He was rather arrogant, which I wouldn’t mind if so much of it didn’t focus on his supposed prowess in bed. If a hero is going to be like that, I want him brought to his knees by the heroine, and it just fell a bit short of that for me.
Despite all this the book wasn’t terrible. I liked my first Lenora Bell way more but I’m sure plenty of people would enjoy this story. It might just be my mood. I will say I liked the ending of this story, especially when compared to my first Lenora book, which just seemed to unravel and go crazy.
The heroine, Alice, I found rather uninteresting. She didn’t annoy me but I didn’t love her. I guess she was just kind of there lol. Her father “wins” the hero, Nick, for her as a husband in a game of cards.
Alice is working on translating Kama Sutra text. I didn’t mind this as part of a plot line, even though it was rather silly, yet I felt that it didn’t really fit with the book. It fit a few scenes and basically gave an excuse for some exploration between the main characters.
I will say I find Lenora’s love scenes descriptive and usually interesting. They seem almost more detailed in some ways and slightly more risqué in a vanilla way. I’m sad that in the two books of hers I’ve read there’s only been 1 or 2 scenes. I guess with the Kama sutra involved I was hoping for more. 😆
I will also say I didn’t really feel the tension in this book and that is one of my favorite part parts of a romance.
The hero didn’t really do much for me either. He was rather arrogant, which I wouldn’t mind if so much of it didn’t focus on his supposed prowess in bed. If a hero is going to be like that, I want him brought to his knees by the heroine, and it just fell a bit short of that for me.
Despite all this the book wasn’t terrible. I liked my first Lenora Bell way more but I’m sure plenty of people would enjoy this story. It might just be my mood. I will say I liked the ending of this story, especially when compared to my first Lenora book, which just seemed to unravel and go crazy.
I just don’t know if I’m a Lindsay Sands fan.
I’m saving my true judgement for her book The Deed, as I’ve heard such wonderful things about it.
This book is funny and I loved the supporting characters.
My complaints - the hero and heroine aren’t even really together for the first 100 pages. Tons of side plots. Just too much going on and not enough focus on the romance.
I’m saving my true judgement for her book The Deed, as I’ve heard such wonderful things about it.
This book is funny and I loved the supporting characters.
My complaints - the hero and heroine aren’t even really together for the first 100 pages. Tons of side plots. Just too much going on and not enough focus on the romance.
3.5 stars
Started out wonderful and so intriguing! However the middle dragged on and I began to lose interest. The fact that the heroines secret identity was causing conflict with the hero and the heroine including feelings of jealousy was just weird. And I didn’t love the way the ending pulled it together. Rather fizzled out.
Started out wonderful and so intriguing! However the middle dragged on and I began to lose interest. The fact that the heroines secret identity was causing conflict with the hero and the heroine including feelings of jealousy was just weird. And I didn’t love the way the ending pulled it together. Rather fizzled out.
I have finally finished the controversial Stormfire by Christine Monson. I gave it 4 stars but I’m totally conflicted over it, as I’m sure a lot of readers were. Unless it filled you with hate and one star reviews, which I can also understand. I’m not even sure what to say about it🤔
I honestly don’t even really consider this a romance. It goes into some weird historical fiction drama slot for me. But overall it IS a love story.
This book is long, detailed, like size 8 font and can be hard to get through. But at the same time when I was reading it, I was devouring it. Don’t bother with this book if you have certain triggers or cannot stomach the following:
😱 rape
😱 domestic violence and physical abuse
😱 verbal abuse
😱 incest
😱 losing a child/stillborn children
😱 starvation
I think that covers at least the first half of the book.
😱 more rape
😱 castration
😱 more murder
There was a point almost 400 pages in that my heart was just broken and I was actually loving (engrossed? Loving doesn’t seem to be the right word) then the book took a series of weird turns and started getting heavier in the politics of the time and I began to lose interest.
But overall I persevered through to the end and witnessed a happily ever after...
I honestly don’t even really consider this a romance. It goes into some weird historical fiction drama slot for me. But overall it IS a love story.
This book is long, detailed, like size 8 font and can be hard to get through. But at the same time when I was reading it, I was devouring it. Don’t bother with this book if you have certain triggers or cannot stomach the following:
😱 rape
😱 domestic violence and physical abuse
😱 verbal abuse
😱 incest
😱 losing a child/stillborn children
😱 starvation
I think that covers at least the first half of the book.
😱 more rape
😱 castration
😱 more murder
There was a point almost 400 pages in that my heart was just broken and I was actually loving (engrossed? Loving doesn’t seem to be the right word) then the book took a series of weird turns and started getting heavier in the politics of the time and I began to lose interest.
But overall I persevered through to the end and witnessed a happily ever after...
3 1/2 ⭐️ rounded to 4
I’ll be honest, I almost gave up in this book. I felt like the beginning was so slow and the heroine was so angry and unlikeable, I just wasn’t feeling it. I told myself to give it at least 100 pages and it definitely started to pick up.
Really enjoyed her love scenes. I would have liked to have had more tension and a little more character depth but it turned into a nice book.
There was a lot of action at the end, with a decent mystery aspect. The sub plot drives the characters along but doesn’t overtake the book like so many other books I’ve read.
The heroine is a math genius and I love is that was incorporated. I just wanted a little more time in the hero’s head and a little more history of him to deepen that connection.
I will totally seek out more from her, this was my first Kelly Bowen book.
I’ll be honest, I almost gave up in this book. I felt like the beginning was so slow and the heroine was so angry and unlikeable, I just wasn’t feeling it. I told myself to give it at least 100 pages and it definitely started to pick up.
Really enjoyed her love scenes. I would have liked to have had more tension and a little more character depth but it turned into a nice book.
There was a lot of action at the end, with a decent mystery aspect. The sub plot drives the characters along but doesn’t overtake the book like so many other books I’ve read.
The heroine is a math genius and I love is that was incorporated. I just wanted a little more time in the hero’s head and a little more history of him to deepen that connection.
I will totally seek out more from her, this was my first Kelly Bowen book.
I just could not get into this book. I tried. And tried. And tried. Something about the writing...it just didn’t pull me. And the hero always calling her brat yet I felt like there wasn’t enough build up/explanation about their history together. I gave up about 30%.
