Ms Archer's books and I travel on different wavelength. I did not like her other novel I read, and definitely did not like this novella. At least the Ms Archer's books and I travel on different wavelength. I did not like her other novel I read, and definitely did not like this novella. At least the novel had some plot, Collision Course's plot is like Swiss cheese: plenty of holes.
One example only. This story is based on blackmail. The air force strong-arms Mara to help them retrieve a pilot and her craft. If she doesn't, she will be tried as a traitor. I guess this is acceptable. One problem. The moment she out of there, this blackmail stops working. An other problem: the moment she is out of base into her side of the galaxy, she could easily dump the guy or worse sell him and the secret knowledge he easily spilled to her. From there it goes downhill. Of course there is instalust, of course this woman who at 16 abandoned the life of a royal princess to do what she wanted has no problem in letting the air force destroy the life she has built for herself. For a guy she has barely know. Yep. Believable.
CC is what I call a sex sandwich (lots of smut, no substance). Like in your sandwich, you probably want some balance. You might not mind some chili or, on the contrary, you might like it a lot, but still overall you are looking for a balanced taste.
Unfortunately here you have two nice characters with a glimpsed back-story that sounded interesting, and they bored me to death. I had to force myself to finish it.
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Ms Archer's books and I travel on different wavelength. I did not like her other novel I read, and definitely did not like this novella. At least the novel had some plot, Collision Course's plot is like Swiss cheese: plenty of holes.
One example only. This story is based on blackmail. The air force strong-arms Mara to help them retrieve a pilot and her craft. If she doesn't, she will be tried as a traitor. I guess this is acceptable. One problem. The moment she out of there, this blackmail stops working. An other problem: the moment she is out of base into her side of the galaxy, she could easily dump the guy or worse sell him and the secret knowledge he easily spilled to her. From there it goes downhill. Of course there is instalust, of course this woman who at 16 abandoned the life of a royal princess to do what she wanted has no problem in letting the air force destroy the life she has built for herself. For a guy she has barely know. Yep. Believable.
CC is what I call a sex sandwich (lots of smut, no substance). Like in your sandwich, you probably want some balance. You might not mind some chili or, on the contrary, you might like it a lot, but still overall you are looking for a balanced taste.
Unfortunately here you have two nice characters with a glimpsed back-story that sounded interesting, and they bored me to death. I had to force myself to finish it....more
Plenty of great ratings for this romance. But I still should have sampled the first few chapters before buying.
This is not the story for me.DNF at 25%
Plenty of great ratings for this romance. But I still should have sampled the first few chapters before buying.
This is not the story for me. I like my women strong and smart, not TSTL. Annie came off as stupid and, worse, desperate. Rather than a 20 something with a bad experience with an abusive former lover, she seems an inmate coming off a 50-year sentence. She's so desperate for sexual contact that she behaves in an utterly stupid and unprofessional way.
(view spoiler)[In the first chapters we are shown her utter panic when she gets into the prison for the first time. We aren't shown tension, but panic, or something very close to it. I found it irritating. Yes, they are convicts, but not monsters. They are still people, and moreover you are surrounded by guards who know what they are doing. Do not do this kind of job, if you are so terrorized.
Next scene, she sees him and stops thinking. She stops doing her jobs in a potentially dangerous place, and immediately fantasize about sex with him. Go girl. Not. (hide spoiler)]
Plus this kind of book has the woman as an hormone-driven idiot as a trope. You know, the one that as soon as she sees the handsome guy stops thinking (here she literally blanks and doesn't hear what other people are telling her). Not the image of a woman I want to embrace, sorry. Nor the love story I can embrace either. She's not seduced by him or his letters, she's simply - as I said - desperate. His letters might be the "thing" in an other settings, but here they worked on the wrong assumption: a TSTL heroine. I'm sure this is a great book, but I need a different starting point.
Plenty of great ratings for this romance. But I still should have sampled the first few chapters before buying.
This is not the story for me. I like my women strong and smart, not TSTL. Annie came off as stupid and, worse, desperate. Rather than a 20 something with a bad experience with an abusive former lover, she seems an inmate coming off a 50-year sentence. She's so desperate for sexual contact that she behaves in an utterly stupid and unprofessional way.
(view spoiler)[In the first chapters we are shown her utter panic when she gets into the prison for the first time. We aren't shown tension, but panic, or something very close to it. I found it irritating. Yes, they are convicts, but not monsters. They are still people, and moreover you are surrounded by guards who know what they are doing. Do not do this kind of job, if you are so terrorized.
Next scene, she sees him and stops thinking. She stops doing her jobs in a potentially dangerous place, and immediately fantasize about sex with him. Go girl. Not. (hide spoiler)]
Plus this kind of book has the woman as an hormone-driven idiot as a trope. You know, the one that as soon as she sees the handsome guy stops thinking (here she literally blanks and doesn't hear what other people are telling her). Not the image of a woman I want to embrace, sorry. Nor the love story I can embrace either. She's not seduced by him or his letters, she's simply - as I said - desperate. His letters might be the "thing" in an other settings, but here they worked on the wrong assumption: a TSTL heroine. I'm sure this is a great book, but I need a different starting point.
2 1/2 stars Still as good as a Draven book. I am not a fan of historical romance and this has the added problem of being a short story in which two str2 1/2 stars Still as good as a Draven book. I am not a fan of historical romance and this has the added problem of being a short story in which two strangers fall for each other. Tough, even if she makes it almost believable. :)
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2 1/2 stars Still as good as a Draven book. I am not a fan of historical romance and this has the added problem of being a short story in which two strangers fall for each other. Tough, even if she makes it almost believable. :)...more
This is a dark (and sad) book. And make no mistake there is no (real) happy ending.
The story is set in a world divided between freemen and slaves andThis is a dark (and sad) book. And make no mistake there is no (real) happy ending.
The story is set in a world divided between freemen and slaves and the plot make use of this background in a very serious way. There is no titillating sex here, no fake "you wanted this" rape (typical of some romances). There is a real rape scene which is difficult to stomach. And it has some consequences (but not enough to be totally believable).
Ms Haimowitz knows how to write. But I'm not sure I would label this book as erotic romance.
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This is a dark (and sad) book. And make no mistake there is no (real) happy ending.
The story is set in a world divided between freemen and slaves and the plot make use of this background in a very serious way. There is no titillating sex here, no fake "you wanted this" rape (typical of some romances). There is a real rape scene which is difficult to stomach. And it has some consequences (but not enough to be totally believable).
Ms Haimowitz knows how to write. But I'm not sure I would label this book as erotic romance....more
Books are driven by stories. Stories are made by plot, characters, description. Novellas are very hard to write because of length limit. There are autBooks are driven by stories. Stories are made by plot, characters, description. Novellas are very hard to write because of length limit. There are authors who excel, but most are not good with this limit (even when they are great with novels).
This is a story without plot, characters, description. What do you read then? Sex with something in between to keep the flow going. There's nothing that makes you stop being rational and start believing the magic that is writing.
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Books are driven by stories. Stories are made by plot, characters, description. Novellas are very hard to write because of length limit. There are authors who excel, but most are not good with this limit (even when they are great with novels).
This is a story without plot, characters, description. What do you read then? Sex with something in between to keep the flow going. There's nothing that makes you stop being rational and start believing the magic that is writing....more
I was going to write my own thoughts on this erotic romance, then I realized Naysa had already wrote beautifully what I was thinking. http://www.goodrI was going to write my own thoughts on this erotic romance, then I realized Naysa had already wrote beautifully what I was thinking. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
There was no need for me to transform this lazy Sunday morning in a "working" day. Lazy uh? :D Yep, I know.
But then we tend to agree often.
-Cheesy cover, absolutely wrong for this -Great, real romance -'Tasteful' sex scenes (Yes, I know it sound absurd, but you have no idea what get published in the field)
Moreover, like her, I'm older than my partner (almost like Lacey). But I admit I do not get the age difference so strongly. While the money, well that's quite an other matter. I know of couples broken over this (and the man was the one with money).
But I suspect it's a cultural difference. Here if you think older woman/younger man, you might "pity" her thinking "alas, sooner or later he'll dump her for a younger gal" (sexist bastards < grin >.) But to think "cougar" I have to think of a woman of at least 50 really going for boys (20+ years younger) on a serial spread :D.
I suspect this is the only Erotica book I ever really liked. Possibly because it's romance and not porn.
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I was going to write my own thoughts on this erotic romance, then I realized Naysa had already wrote beautifully what I was thinking. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
There was no need for me to transform this lazy Sunday morning in a "working" day. Lazy uh? :D Yep, I know.
But then we tend to agree often.
-Cheesy cover, absolutely wrong for this -Great, real romance -'Tasteful' sex scenes (Yes, I know it sound absurd, but you have no idea what get published in the field)
Moreover, like her, I'm older than my partner (almost like Lacey). But I admit I do not get the age difference so strongly. While the money, well that's quite an other matter. I know of couples broken over this (and the man was the one with money).
But I suspect it's a cultural difference. Here if you think older woman/younger man, you might "pity" her thinking "alas, sooner or later he'll dump her for a younger gal" (sexist bastards < grin >.) But to think "cougar" I have to think of a woman of at least 50 really going for boys (20+ years younger) on a serial spread :D.
I suspect this is the only Erotica book I ever really liked. Possibly because it's romance and not porn....more
I do like Ms Sinclair’s book, but Master of the wilderness wasn’t that interesting. Black and white characters, no nuances at all. Mostly boring. And hI do like Ms Sinclair’s book, but Master of the wilderness wasn’t that interesting. Black and white characters, no nuances at all. Mostly boring. And honestly a town full of Doms is a lit bit of a stretch. There’s so much credulity you can ask me to suspend before I start questioning everything (here we have a senator’s daughter who trained as a mechanic, a family of perverted monsters, a town full of doms :D, as I said a little bit too much).
I didn’t feel the chemistry which for a romance is a real nit....more
3.5 At least she’s admitting explicitly that she’s writing a Jayneverse :D Of the 3 this is the one I like best. The usual warning: JAK isn’t for all 3.5 At least she’s admitting explicitly that she’s writing a Jayneverse :D Of the 3 this is the one I like best. The usual warning: JAK isn’t for all readers (above all picky ones, too many nits otherwise). But if you don’t mind the rinse and repeat her romances are a nice way to spend time....more
3.5 I won’t go the full Monty (4 stars) as I went to bed and put the book down…and I wasn’t moved to keep reading the next day. It took me 3 days to pi3.5 I won’t go the full Monty (4 stars) as I went to bed and put the book down…and I wasn’t moved to keep reading the next day. It took me 3 days to pick it up again... Obviously it says nothing against the book in itself, but it does say to me I wasn’t fully invested. I’m not sure whether I’ll keep reading this series. ...more
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