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Rogan’s voice didn’t work for me

Revisado: 04-27-25

Sorry - totally subjective, but this actor just didn’t fit my view of Rogan. Just found out that the authors have a sample of his voice on their website, I just missed it. I recommend checking that out and making your own choice. The Audible sample only features Nevada and Rogan’s evil cousin.

Oh well, I still have the standard audio which I’ve listened to a zillion times and Kate 10 comes out in Graphic Audio format next month!! Those are incredibly well done. This just didn’t work for me. So ch is life.

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Loved it!

Revisado: 02-23-23

I am definitely not trying n the target age for this series, but I think this story would be a blast for anyone who enjoys urban fantasy, action, and a great side of humor. I wonder if all the characters (aside from Lockwood, of course) are anywhere near as hideously ugly as Lucy describes them. She’s a great narrator, but also very much a teenage girl.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 01-20-23

I miss having the entire Graphic Audio cast, but using their narrator for Dina was a great choice. Hopefully we’ll get the Graphic Audio as well, because I need ALL the versions.

Story was fun, action packed, and really moved the major story arc along. Everything I love from an Innkeeper book. Can’t wait for more!

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Fantastic Kate Daniels' Spinoff

Revisado: 08-06-18

The narrator made Hugh sound soooooo sexy and the story (like most of Ilona Andrews' work) kept me riveted. I didn't know how Hugh could be redeemed, but it's being done and without taking him out of character. Highly recommend for fans of the Kate Daniels' series, although I believe someone unfamiliar with that world would find this difficult to follow. I am tempted to say I may end up enjoying this series more and that is saying something.

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Enjoyable summer read

Revisado: 08-06-18

An older Linda Howard romantic suspense offering with paranormal elements. The mystery was not especially mysterious, but the romance, psychic angle, and Ms. Howard's writing kept it interesting.

The narrator did a good job. Nothing annoying or jarring to pull me out of the story.

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Didn't grab me

Revisado: 01-09-17

I love a good paranormal romance, but this one didn't grab me. I think it may have to do with the fact that I am more a fan of fantasy than sci-fi and this veered more into sci-fi territory. The heroine's mind was connected to a net along with all the others of her kind (sort of a Matrix like thing). The hero was a shapeshifter, but his origins weren't discussed. Not sure if he was also a product of science or more of a mythological type of creature. Not a bad book, just didn't capture my imagination, YMMV.

The performance was ok. The heroine was supposed to be emotionless, so that accounts for much of the narrator's deadpan delivery, but there didn't seem to be a lot of emotion conveyed from other characters either.

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My Last in the Series

Revisado: 10-24-14

2.5 stars really

The author did do a good job with making the hero a ruthless bad ass with redeeming qualities and I liked the heroine much better in this installment. But something about MacLean's choice of words frequently takes me out of the story. For example when I hear someone talking about being 'kicked in the nuggets', it reminds me more of a 12-year-old American middle school kid than a historical Highland warrior. Maybe I'm wrong and that was an olden time saying of yore... but it didn't feel right. And that's just one example.

Also, I personally do not like to be spoon fed what I should feel or told what conclusions to draw. The hero was someone who had betrayed someone close to him. He therefore had trust issues and self esteem issues. I think the average reader is certainly smart enough to put two and two together and realize that a lot of his trust issues comes from the fact that he feels guilty about his mistakes and thinks basically that he can't trust anyone since he can't even trust himself. Yet, there is constant unnecessary navel gazing and self-analysis going on. That threw me out of the time period and made me feel more like I was reading a 'costume drama' rather than being transported to another time/place.

MacLean obviously has a legion of fans and I can understand it, but I suppose I look for something a bit different in my historicals. I won't be finishing the trilogy.

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Enjoyable if cheesy at times

Revisado: 10-24-14

3.5 stars actually, but rounding up since I did enjoy this even though it was far from perfect.

I tend to be a fan of angst and this was much more fluffy than my usual fair. The heroine had a pet raccoon and a Indian friend who spoke like Tonto (cringe). However, it was engaging. The beginning drags a bit with the two being stuck inside her isolated cabin, but after that it definitely picked up. What I liked was that my predictions were either dead wrong or not exactly what I'd expected and that kept me interested.

Basic storyline: the heroine is living alone in her isolated cabin located on what is now Yosemite Nat'l Park. Her father had recently died and that left her and her assortment of animals alone. She knew the government was trying to evict all settlers in the area to make it a national park, but she thought she had the winter since the passes close due to snow.

The hero makes it through just before the big freeze, however. He shows up at her door bleeding from a gunshot wound inflicted by an angry evictee and she nurses him back to health. She is very young, naive, and sheltered. She has no idea how a young lady is supposed to act so she just says and does whatever she feels like. The hero, who's in his 30's is obviously attracted to her but feels he should leave her alone due to her age, inexperience, and the basic situation. However, it doesn't happen that way. And that's about all I'm going to say. I won't spoil the rest. However, I will say that the h was a virgin and there were no multiple partners. I know those are a biggie for some.

A few weird things: There was one sex scene that was lol worthy. If you read it, you'll know exactly which one I was speaking of. Another odd thing was the story takes place shortly after the end of the Civil War and the hero was in the war. He mentions at one point being 'with Jackson'. I really didn't get that, since I automatically think of the Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson and don't see why the hero (a native Californian with no ties to the South) would have been in the Confederate army to begin with. If he was, why/how was he being employed by the U.S. government to be their legal representative in evicting the settlers so soon after the war? It just doesn't make sense on several different levels. Possibly I heard wrong, but I could have sworn he mentioned 'Jackson'. *shrugs* Also, the heroine had all these cutesy little folksy sayings and it was WAY overdone. I think she should have just spoken plainly in many places to avoid overkill.

On a side note: the cover is a gigantic fail. The heroine is quite definitely described as someone with very dark hair, not a a blond. Also, she is only 18 and that figures heavily into her personality, actions, etc. The lady on the cover is lovely, but too mature and too blonde. Seriously, couldn't the publishers at least look at the old covers and take a clue from that before picking the characters from their revolving stash of stock photos used these days? Is that too much to ask?

Re: the audio: The narrator should not try to do accents. Enuf said.

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Anticlimactic and forgettable.

Revisado: 10-24-14

Anticlimactic and forgettable. Not one of Grahams better works. I usually like her and this plot, but honestly I've already forgotten most of the content here. Nothing stood out.

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Manufactured melodrama overload/pathetic hero

Revisado: 10-24-14

I am truly not one of those people who gets a kick out of not liking what everyone else likes. If it's something I enjoy, I don't care how popular it is. I'll jump on the bandwagon and wave my flag like the village idiot. Heck, I love the most crazy, wth-just-happened Harlequins I can find. Literary snob, I am not.

That being said. I hated this. And, oh the reasons why...

1) It was ALL about the kid. Not what I call a romance. Don't get me wrong, the kid was cute. The kid was the most likeable character in the book, in fact.

2) Manufactured melodrama overload and a hero that is pathetic.

3) Not only first person, but rotating first person. We'd see things through the h's eyes in first person and then see the exact same things through the H's eyes in first person. Double wammy! Obviously that's YMMV. I've seen first person done well, but it rarely works for me.

My take

Christian kicks Elizabeth out when he finds out she's pregnant and doesn't see her or the kid until the child is almost 5-years-old.

Wouldn't it have been just as dramatic and more forgivable to make the time period shorter. 2 years maybe? IMHO, the author wrote things to be as melodramatic as possible without having a way out that made sense for the characters (or anyone on this planet).

Why so long? Does that even make sense if he misses them so badly? Is that even forgivable? This lady needed to read more Harlequins. If you're going to go this far over the top, go all the way. Make it practically campy in it's OTT drama. Dude should have been a giant dick THEN just as he was going to find his love and newborn infant, he gets hit by a car and spends 5 years with amnesia all while having mysterious dreams of a blond woman and child that would cause him to wake in a sweat and make mysterious sketches. Meanwhile the blow to the head made him a finance genius and he becomes the most powerful tycoon on the planet. Then when he finds the heroine and his child, he goes all megalomaniac alpha and takes over with fake threats of taking the child, etc etc.

This hero was such a weenie. He had no good excuse. His dad was a pushy, arrogant bastard - cry me a friggin river.

Basically the H/h could have been together earlier (per the "H") if Elizabeth had made the first move. Because that makes sense after someone kicks you to the curb while pregnant. Just go chase him down, girl!

:-/ I feel like I need a gif here.

Apparently Christian was emo-boy sleep-with-anything-in-a-skirt-because-I-FEEL-so-much for almost six years while waiting for her to sue him for child support, or call, or something to open the lines of communication. He only finds them by a fluke.

I know some of the alpha heroes we read about would drive us INSANE in real life, but jeez this dude was so far down the Greek alphabet we may have to invent a new letter.

The author wrote herself into a hole then used Elizabeth's breakdown as a way out. A way for Christian to look like the better person (didn't work for me) and put them on more even footing I suppose, before the HEA. Because, no matter how nice Christian was to the little girl, it was damn impossible to explain those 5+ years, so she had to make Elizabeth look like a head case who made bad decisions too.

Puke. Need another gif here...

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