 2008-11-27 - Conflicting feelings about Wild Card
I don't know what it is about this book, but I can't get it out of my thoughts. I have very conflicting feelings about it. I know that it is considered erotica and it is that, but I realized it would have been a better romance had it not been. She focused so much on the sex, I wanted more adventure/romantic suspense. I feel like had she gone that route with the story then it would have been more of a 5 star read for me. As for the hero, I liked him and then I didn't like him at times. I won't go into the whole plot, but it infuriated me that he wanted his wife to move on with Noah yet he didn't "really" want her to get over Nathan. Sure, he had the whole alpha-male thing going on, but at times it felt like he was a brute/jerk to the heroine. As for the sex scenes, I wanted him to be more loving/gentle with the heroine. As for the story, it felt believable to a point, but the whole whore's dust and lasting effects on Noah (he had a raging hard-on most of the time) pissed me off as did the female villian. It knocked the believability factor (which attracted me to the book in the first place) down for me. I will say one thing, scenes from this book will stay with you long after reading it.
 2008-11-04 - Wild Card
Sabella Malone had been incredibly happy married to her SEAL husband Nathan until the day came when she was told he wasn't coming home from his latest mission. For the first three years, she couldn't function. She kept having these horrific nightmares that were filled with blood and death, but always had the feeling Nathan hadn't perished. She felt he was hurting and that she was his lifeline, but never that he had actually died. When the garage was in danger of going under, she was forced to pull herself up, and start functioning again. Belle couldn't allow something that Nathan loved be taken from her. She had already lost too much.
Nathan Malone had been to hell, and when rescued, he wasn't sure he could survive the torture he had endured. Only the thought of his soul mate Sabella, and his memories of their short two years together got him through. A part of him wanted to go to her, and be with her, but he didn't think she could handle the changes in him. Due to the physical torture, he had undergone so many surgeries that he lost count. He barely resembled his former self. The mental torture had changed him also. He was no longer Nathan Malone.
It had been six long years since he had seen his Bella, but when his team was notified of the danger surrounding her, he was about to confront the past he had forced behind him. Nathan was shocked when he saw Bella. He had expected her to grieve, and then move on with her life, but obviously she hadn't. She was still missing her husband. Apparently she like he, remembered the vows they exchanged Go siorai - forever...................
I have read all the books in this series, and this is my favorite by far. Bella and Nathan make such an appealing couple. Even though they got to spend only a couple of years together, and didn't know each other as well as they thought, the love was so powerful - was a bond that could not be broken. Even though it may sound like an old cliché, in this emotional story love does conquer all. Very erotic and sensual read with enough suspense to keep you on the edge of your seat.
2008-10-27 - Best Lora Leigh book yet!
This is my favorite Lora Leigh book yet! The story was very endearing, emotionally charged, and contained just the right amount of eroticism. I have read all the books in the series, but I think the main characters of this novel were the most developed of all the books. Once I started reading the book I couldn't put it down, and even when I finished reading it, I didn't want it to end. This is a great read.
2008-10-21 - Loved It!!!!!!!!
This was by far one of the best books I have read!I couldn't stop reading it and stayed up well into the night to finish.Steamy,exciting,well written!!!Lora Leigh has become one of my all time favorite writers!!!
 2008-10-14 - Was this edited for errors at all?
If grammar and continuity errors make you crazy, don't even open this book. This book is so full of them that I found myself putting it down again and again in irritation. Verb tense errors, missing words in sentences, just little things like that which pull me right out of a book when I read them. If these sorts of errors are a pet peeve of yours (as they are mine) then just skip this one. In one scene the heroine is sipping her wine in a bar and just a few paragraphs later she is cringing at the bitter taste of her beer. That kind of thing makes me crazy when I'm reading. It just makes me wonder if anyone read this to clean it up before it was printed.
I read a lot of romance novels, and I was looking for a new author since I've exhausted all of my regular ones. Ms. Leigh isn't really my cup of tea, and this many irritating little errors just seals the deal for me and I won't be buying her books again. If she's one of your favorites, you can probably forgive the mess.
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