It was awful! It had absolutely no plot. I had to force my self to fininsh it, you know, I'm all for freedom of religion and have nothing against Wicca. When the author incoporated spells and casting into the novel, however it destroyed my willing suspension of disbeleif.

I honestly tried to enjoy this book but by chap 3...it was hurled. Too wordy; and if that isn't enough the author has to add more by adding extra nonsense in parenthesis! Good grief. No one wants to read a comment by the hero and then read 2-3 pages of crap before the heroine answers back or vice versa. By then the reader forgets what the conversation is about! I honestly can't stand reading books written in this kind of style.

As some of you know, I have a "thing" about historical inaccuracies in my historical romances. But this one takes the cake. The hero is comparing the heroine to, better sit down for this one: Michaelangelo's MONA LISA! HELLOOOOH! Did none of these people ever hear of a dude named Leonardo daVinci? Deborah Raleigh, the author, failed to catch it, her editor failed to catch it, the proofreader failed to catch it, the printer failed to catch it. How many other publishing houses are harboring fugitives from the public school UNeducation system? The rest of the story was too formulaic, the hero was another in a long line of stubborn dunces, the heroine was so stiff with misplaced pride one couldn't feel really synpathetic toward her plight and the whole premise was too far-fetched for my willing suspension of disbelief to suspend a thread, much less this unsatisfactory wall banger. *sigh*

OK, maybe it's not a hurl, more like a toss, but I couldn't put this book on the pedestal no matter how much I wanted to. This book had a great premise: Victorian England, where a person's rank is determined by his or her magical ability rather than bloodlines. So, princes are the most powerful magically, followed by dukes and duchesses, and so on down the line. It a very rich world mixing history and fantasy, and I would have loved to love it. But, unfortunately, the early momentum of the book is not sustained in the later chapters. The characters and are not fully fleshed out, and situations are not fully explained. (And now for a minor diatribe on my part: Ultimately I could not get past the doormat of a heroine. I realize the heroine is under a curse, which dulls her looks and abilities, so her stunning naivete and saccharine sweetness are somewhat explained. I forgave it up to a point, but I could only take so much, not a whole book full of it! Just once, when the hero says, "Trust me, don't leave the house," I would like the heroine to actually trust him and follow his advice, and not say, "Oh, he must not have meant it," or "Nothing is going to happen to me," or "He's just worrying, the silly billy," or whatever. But she does leave the house, and unfortunately does not get run over by a bus. Yes, by this point in the book, I was hoping for something surprising to happen, but nothing did, all the action was telegraphed and formulaic.) Anyway, the Amazon.com reviewers who gave the book 3 stars have it right; it's not a 5-star book. That said, I will try the next in the series in hopes that the author improves. I do like the idea of the story (and the world the author has built), just not the execution of it in this book.

I don't know what's going on but I've managed to find 1 good book out of about 5. All the same stories, same stupid heroines, same, same, same.

Here in this book, you have a very dangerous assassin who can kill w/a touch. A perfect weapon if she didn’t end up violently ill and rolling in pain each time she engaged the enemy. But I couldn’t help noticing she was able to stand in the midst of a violent thunderstorm w/lightening flashing and having no repercussions, but she’s violently ill when pulling a trigger on a gun? Or in hand to hand combat? Come on! If Mother Nature doesn’t take her out, than anything man-made surely shouldn’t have the drawbacks as it does. By all accounts the psych abilities should only be affected when in use; so why the pain when she is in hand to hand combat or is firing a weapon? This doesn’t make sense to me.

Well, congratulations, Ms. Hamilton. I now hate every single character you've created with a fiery passion. I am sick of Anita never raising a zombie, or if she does, doing something stupid and messing things up. I'm so sick of the whole bondage leather-wear thing. I'm deathly tired of the incredibly boring sex scenes with multiple partners. I'm so very tired of none of these people being able to come to terms with anything in their lives. Or rather, pretending that they are going to be OK and in the very next sentence, going back over the same old ground that has been covered a billion times before. Not only do I not care about Anita's problems, I'm secretly hoping that Marmie Noir, the head vampire honcho, will actually wake up and eat all of them.

WTF is she thinking? I've just read on a blog website, that she's makeing one of her central characters Gay. Apparently Blaylock will have the hots for a male vampire, don't know who yet, maybe Quinn, who happens to be into threesomes and poor John Mathew can't get it up. WTF is going on with this series? Honestly, I don't care if he's gay but what's the point?. The series is about warrior vampires in a war with ...well frankly a bubble gum villain, trying to protect and save the vampire race. There supposed to be killing the evil lessers -yeah whatever , but instead they're sexual orientation is the be all end all of their characters. Get on with the f***ing storyline, and stop writing things just to shock people.

Who died and made you hall monitor? No one needs your wagging finger and your passive aggressive bitchiness.

For erotic romance this was the pits. A disgusting and very strange book. With absolutely zero romance.

I usually don't like to hurl a book without finishing it (I mean, it could get better...or at least tolerable), but not this one. I started this book twice and could not get past the first 100 pages. What dreck! I can't believe this is the same author of the Francesca Cahill series. I seriously wonder if someone else wrote this book under the Brenda Joyce name. The heroine, Claire, is a complete invertebrate. The world she lives in (present day) is one in which something like 80% of all murders are "pleasure crimes" (what a term!), in which basically the woman is f**ked to death. (Sounds good, except for the not living part. Not much pleasure in that.) Her mother and cousin were killed in this manner. A medieval warrior travels to the present day and takes her back to 1400s Scotland. I got whiplash trying to follow Claire's thoughts. A sample: "The next time they spoke, she had to set some boundaries and make some rules." But in the very next paragraph (again her thoughts): "He was lord here, absolutely, and she had better appease him if she could." Grow a backbone! The warlord, Malcolm, admits that he has killed a woman in a "pleasure crime," but Claire understands: She has always been "attracted to power," and "what woman wouldn't want the medieval stud facing her?" And just that easily her relatives' deaths are dismissed. Claire has traveled through time and has met people with superhuman strength. By now she should have figured out that there is lots of paranormal s**t going on. Nevertheless, on learning of the villain, she supposes: "Moray was probably an ambitious, ruthless and clever nobleman, and nothing more...He did not have extraordinary powers, no matter what Malcolm claimed. And he wasn't her enemy." Excuse me, you traveled through time. I think that should give you a hint that there are extraordinary powers going on. And maybe someone who lives in that world might know a bit more about it than you. Just a guess. Needless to say, I couldn't find anything likeable, redeeming, or sympathetic about any of the characters. I couldn't take the drastic swings in the characters' thoughts. Every page I'm saying "WTF?" Luckily, I stopped reading this book before I had to go the chiropractor, but my next still hurts.

Okay, I know I'm probably going to get scolded because this isn't about a specific book, but ... I'm so tired of lack of variety in romance. It's tough to find a book that isn't 1) a paranormal, 2) a Regency or British Isles historical, or 3) a romantic comedy. Don't get me wrong, I read and enjoy them, but I really would love more to choose from! I wish the bandwagon mentality would stop.

Just read a review of a book on Amazon where reviewer complained about a book because the son of a duke was not an marquis/marquess. "The heir to a dukedom is a marquis" - Actually, no. In most cases (as far as I know there's only one exception) the heir to a dukedom, if a son, takes his father's next lesser title as a courtesy title. A duke usually has a lesser title of marquis but not always.

JR Ward - This book sucked donkey d**k!! She better get into rehab because she was smoking something else when she wrote this book.

Okay, hurl worthy? I found an anthology that certainly gave me a rainy afternoon's worth of entertainment, but I have to say the story lines are SOOOO repetitive. Late 30s guy, perpetually gruff/angry, and early early EARLY 20s gal. Ick. Yeah, that happens and can be a good relationship, but not over and over. (Play your own league, fellas. I don't want to read about *children* getting it on with the 38-year-old bachelor.) Someone usually makes the comment that they are practically in different generations. Lots of angsting about her being a virgin. The balance of power was always out of whack...he has an MBA, she an associate's degree, or is a nurse, or hasn't been to college. (Again, can happen, but *every* time?) I was almost okay with the whole scene, thinking they were an 80s reprint, but (unless I'm missing something big) in reality this batch was published 2000-2002.

There are some words that ruin a seduction scene for me. Here are a few- nub, nubbin, butt, ass, man-root, downy(as in hair),turgid just to name a few. If I never heard a nipple referred to as a "nubbin" again in my life it would be great LOL

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Dear god, what happened to the euphemism!!?? I am getting very sick of opening up what looks to be a good book and having p--sy and c--t splashed around in the sex scenes. It certainly doesn't make me feel inclined to read further. Don't get me wrong, purple prose can go a long way the wrong way but have some tact? Talk dirty once in a while but please, not throughout the book.

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Although this was a very well written book it bored me to tears because its the same sort of storyline that's been done to death. A woman is blackmailed by her uncle who's a disgusting creep into marrying the hero in order to find out the secret of his strength. But of course she's conflicted because she's falling love and Oh God, I can't betray him but if I don't what will happen to my people? Cripes! And of course he finds out goes into a towering rage and kicks her out. She's TSTL and he's not much better, I found him a very characther despite the fact he walks around with an erection most of the time and whines how he wants her but has to stay away from her. Ugh! I was so looking forward to this new trio and was sorely disappointed. Still Monica's a very good writer, gives good description of everything and the characters were deep enough to be engaging but the storyline was just boring.

This was my first Coulter book, and I picked it up because (a) I had nothing else to read, and (b) she seems popular, so I assumed people were finding something to like. <p> Overall, I wasn't a big fan of the story in general, but that's not really a big deal (you win some, you lose some). What really got me was the *preaching* the author did, through the mouths of her characters. <p> In the context of hunting and chasing a serial killer, I got to hear about "liberal judges" and the "damn ACLU" who protect the scum of the earth. <P>Now, I don't really consider myself "liberal"...there are times when I roll a little left of center, and times when I roll a little right. But the preaching pulled me *right* out of the story. Some judge ordered their serial killer out of restraints for his psych-eval so he could "trust" his doctors more, conveniently allowing his escape. Um, no. Not even remotely plausible, but a good excuse for the main characters to rant about "sympathetic juries" and "Liberal judges" and laugh at the ACLU for defending the original judge's order, while the two main characters are committing a major ethics-violation themselves by getting together. (Yeah, nothing really immoral about dating your Federal Agent partner, just frowned upon, right?) Frankly, there's nothing I like less about a book than getting preached at (on any topic -- animal rights, religion, or the justice system). <P> In the end, the killer was almost semi-likable, in a sick sort of way. And, with some convenient hypnotism at the end, all the loose ends got wrapped up in 5 pages or less.

This book was a sequel to another one written by her and she had the main character of the first book killed off in the second. TERRIBLE just TERRIBLE. Romance books should always end good. YUK

I hate books that have a bad ending. If the author isn't going to resolve the relationship between the H/H then please put a huge "WARNING" on it that you'll have to read another book if you want to get the ending. I'm not even sure if there is another since I just happened to pick this one up to read and haven't had time to research to see. But I'm not sure I even want to after this. The story wasn't bad except the continued sex with another after he'd found his supposed soul-mate. That sucked (pardon the pun).

Irratating waste of space!