Lorie O'Clare

What in the fuckedy fuck have I run across??!

I can't tell if the book is well written or not.

I'm too caught up in the HORRIBLE PLOT IDEA and the fact that the "hero" of the book is a fucking nutball douchebag. I mean, seriously. You "rescue" a woman from being raped...and you refuse to give her some FUCKING CLOTHES until you get your rocks off???! And you have to stop yourself from raping her???!?!?!?

And so I DNF'd this leaving the heroine as she was naked, spread eagle, tied to a wall and show more having the blood "washed off" of her by the "hero" who saved her. Cause what every woman wants after being forcibly stripped and bound is to have another man wash off her naked body while telling her how hot she is and refusing to let her go.

*gag*"


WHAT IN THE FUCK.


DNF. show less

What in the fuckedy fuck have I run across??!

I can't tell if the book is well written or not.

I'm too caught up in the HORRIBLE PLOT IDEA and the fact that the "hero" of the book is a fucking nutball douchebag. I mean, seriously. You "rescue" a woman from being raped...and you refuse to give her some FUCKING CLOTHES until you get your rocks off???! And you have to stop yourself from raping her???!?!?!?

And so I DNF'd this leaving the heroine as she was naked, spread eagle, tied to a wall and show more having the blood "washed off" of her by the "hero" who saved her. Cause what every woman wants after being forcibly stripped and bound is to have another man wash off her naked body while telling her how hot she is and refusing to let her go.

*gag*"


WHAT IN THE FUCK.


DNF. show less

Wow, getting through this book was more challenging than reading The Iliad! I've not encountered Lorie O'Clare before, so had no idea of her writing, but the style is messy and drawn-out and in the end I just didn't care about any of it.

Reading this book was a little like listening to a boring old relative tell you a LOOOOONG story.
"They went there. And then they had a shower and put on this outfit. But that was after they'd done that. Then they drove here while they reminisced about this. show more And then they sat over there and thought about something that happened twenty years ago. Then they got changed. But then they were distracted by that. Then they said this. Then they went there..."

Ignoring the plot and the characterisation, there are a few major things that made it very difficult to read.

1. The confusing prose. Things were explained, over-explained and then explained again, to the point I kept going back to reread and try and figure out what tangent the author had gone off on this time.

This confusion included weird sentences such as:

"Greg pulled out his pocketknife and flipped it open. It wasn't the kind of knife most fathers carried around with them."

(Here's the thing. I didn't realise fathers carried knives with them! I mean, my father was in the army and he doesn't carry a knife. Maybe only non-military fathers carry knives...)

2. So much telling, NO showing. For example, the first twenty pages give us the life stories of all the main players. I can't stand one information dump, let alone five or six of them at once!

3. !!!!!! - A thousand of them per page. A writer should be able to convey their point without an overuse of extreme punctuation.

4. Repetition. Using `precinct' three times in five sentences, for example. Then there was all the description that just went on and on. This is how Greg is described, starting on page 15:

"He'd worn a muscle T-shirt and his body definitely gave credit to the name of the shirt. There wasn't enough shirt to hide the perfect specimen of man who wore it. Greg looked incredible, the epitome of perfection. Haley had stared at thick slabs of perfectly chiselled, heavily built-up muscle. It was as if he'd been carved, each cut painstakingly moulded so there would be no faults. She knew if she'd been able to touch him, every inch of his body would have been harder than stone. Tight bands created precise lines across his stomach that were plainly visible under his shirt. Greg gave new meaning to a "six pack." His arms were smooth, round curves and his shoulders taut ripples of roped muscle."

Major, serious overkill there.

Perhaps it was the writing style, but boy did I ever feel like this book missed its mark. The potential for this plot was great - I'd read bad reviews but still thought maybe I'd enjoy the story of a married couple who were forced apart and are finally reunited. Plus they're BOUNTY HUNTERS!! How could this book go wrong? But nope; there was no emotion to go with the truckload of description, and when I finally reached the reunion scene I was left feeling cold, despite gratuitous use of words you hopefully wouldn't hear anywhere near the kiddies. I want to feel something, experience something, not just be told about it.

The hero and heroine of this one are parents to the twenty-something men they work with. The whole thing was strange, and yes, the guy on the cover of the book is nothing like the hero of the book. I don't think it works at all to have the first book in a series about the parents. While I do like having slightly older characters, it just didn't work here - especially as there appeared to be little difference in the personalities of the characters of different ages. In fact, for the most part it seemed like they were all about sixteen. I don't like people in their mid-forties squealing and thinking about `boobs'. I don't like people in their thirties, or twenties, or even teens squealing and using the word `boobs'. In fact, if nobody ever squeals again I'd be very happy.

So, basically what it comes down to is that this book was nothing like I expected, and was not something I enjoyed. show less

WOLFE'S HOPE

This is the first Breed book that I read oh so many years ago. At the time it was the only Breed book available. I remember being hooked and waiting for the next one. I was so intrigued by with the whole concept of the Breeds and wanted to know more about them. This story provides very little information on the Breeds or the Council. It is a short story after all. I would like to see more of Wolfe in the later books and maybe that will happen since he is part of the Breed show more Council. I also hope to see more of his mate Hope. It has been a long time since I read these stories and I will be glad to get reacquainted with the wolf Breeds. I will say that this is steamy romance even though there are times that I would like to kick Wolfe's ass for being so dense. This is a quick read good for a few hours of down time. show less