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I've pretty well enjoyed the series so far, but this one was not good. Camp's use of `loins' in the book was way over the top. I saw some reviewers stating that she was too young being the reason for acting like she did. In the this book they were related ".somehow in a collateral way", and then back to cousins in the 4th and final book COURTSHIP DANCE.
The love scenes were, let's say.not good at all. The use is plural, so there must be at least two of them per animal. I'm not going to point out all the editing problems, which there were. And luckily they come in a variety of states; burning, pulsating, quivering, and throbbing. It didn't have me picturing moving animal parts hanging in a butcher shop like this book. Irene in the last book was only 2 years older than Callie, and she is still acting in character. You'll see them if you read the series.4.
3. I have no idea how many references there were, but I was visualizing a slab of beef after the first few entries. Excessive the very least. Camp even remarked on Callie being younger than her normal heroine in the forward putting a disclaimer on her depicted behavior basically. I don't recall one reference to loins in the next book, COURTSHIP DANCE.
Camp had her out of character I thought. No loins looming off the pages there, and the sex scenes weren't contrived.Read it if only for Francisca's and Rochford's sakes. I don't think Camp reads her notes from her previous works. Irritation Factors: 1. I really liked Callie's character when she was first introduced in the first two books. In the 2nd book they were definitely cousins. Callie and Brom's story.
If there was one, it wasn't memorable.2. But in this book she acted like a spoiled rotten little kid who threw tantrums and turned naive and selfish.She is 23 years old, which is pushing spinsterhood in that era. In all fairness, there were a couple loin references in the first book, which wasn't excessive and worked fine. Brom's evil sister sure got off easy considering the predicaments and danger she placed Callie in on purpose just to get revenge on the duke. Summing up. Like mixing up mothers and grandmothers up, etc. She seemed nice, pretty, very logical, level headed, and mature for her age, even insightful at times.
Not a big difference in age. By the end of the book I turned vegan. Nobility KNEW their family trees. The only reason I stuck with it was to see Francesca and Rochford's build up for the final installment in THE COURTSHIP DANCE. THE WEDDING CHALLENGE. She should have painted her young, immature, and temperamental in the first 2 books instead of the opposite. Camp had us unsure whether or not Rochford and Radbourne were cousins in this book was rather strange.
Callie and Brom had no depth, no life, and unfortunately, as I read the book, I could have cared less. Yes, all romance books are pretty formula, but at least in previous books, the characters were fleshed out a bit. The descriptions of the locations were uninspired and the sex scenes were perfunctory. I have been a loyal reader of Candice Camp since she wrote as Lisa Gregory. This book really disappointed me. I agree with other readers that there was a lot of repetition.
Not as good as the previous book but I still enjoyed it very much. I look forward to the next book in the series.
The story and characters lack the depth and emotion of better books, but its an easy read and not boring.
But the scenes are so filled with descriptions like these that I find myself laughing when I should be most interested.I've read a few of her books. I should not be laughing during sex scenes.So, first, as usual, since I am not the first (by far) to review this book, I will save the plot recap.Second, I will say that I agree with the other reviewer that mentioned that the sex scenes were disjointed and seemed thrown in there for the sake of having them. I'd love to find some that don't make me slap my forehead so much that I give myself a bruise. I don't know. Almost as if the second scene was written first and then when she went back to add the first scene she just cut and pasted and re-worded it.Thirdly. They're not usually this bad. No matter how much you love them you would never assume that they were telling the truth when their story didn't make any sense).The only things that kept this from being 1 star was that there was no force (a la Catherine Coulter), and the secondary characters were pretty decent.Please, people.
Brom wasn't so bad except in his determined belief to not see the obvious (c'mon, I have siblings. Is this really what books have come to. Maybe all the quivering, throbbing and pulsating just makes me picture them doing a jig or being shocked or something. Writing that makes me laugh at the most innapropriate times. There was also a LOT of repetition in the descriptions. Maybe all the flames and liquifying type descriptions make me think of the Simpson's ("all I wanted was some time with my wife, and now the floor is made of lava").
There's always some quivering going on there, but this book was just over the top. Where are all the good authors. *shaking head* HOW can I be the only one to spot such rediculous writing. well, let me just cull some phrases from the book, shall I."And when she remembered the way he had kissed her, her loins were flooded again with heat.""She found it difficult to think of anything but the soft, swollen tingling of her lips or the heavy achy feel of her breasts.or the insistent throbbing deep within her loins.""Her own body was a stranger to her - her loins throbbing, and a hot damp ache growing between her legs.""It geysered up, shooting throughout her body, turning her skin to flame, and settled in a hot, aching mass deep in her abdomen""Callie thought of sleeping in one of Brom's shirts, and her loins prickled with desire.""His body was pulsatingly aware of her hand upon his arm, now burning where it touched.""Callie quivered beneath his touch, a soft moan escaping her lips.""With each movement Callie felt desire curl and knot within her, her loins melting, turning her hot and liquid.""She could feel the moisture gathering between her legs, the tender flesh throbbing.""Callie felt as if every part of her was on fire, and the molten center of that flame lay deep in her abdomen, where she pulsed and burned with desperate need."Maybe I object to the use of the word "loins" so much, as it makes me think of beef. Also, Callie was whiny, immature, and threw WAAAaay too many tantrums.
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