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Ah, the book store. The only place I could spend a whole paycheck and not feel guilty. Well, I would, but only after I'd read the books ;).
Actually, today's trip wasn't that bad. Went in looking for one book and came out with two others in addition to that one. Granted, one of the additions was a hardcover but...but...it was on sale!
The books:
Lover Awakening by JR Ward
Murphy's Law by Lori Foster
Dark Celebration by Christine Feehan
I've read Lover Awakening already. (No surprise that was the one I'd been going out for specificially.)
I'm still debating on how well I liked the book. Don't get me wrong, it was an awesome story. But, it didn't quite hold up to what I'd thought it would be. The first two in the series, especially Lover Eternal, had me crying in places but this one didn't. Which, I honestly expected to be crying through the whole thing. I mean, we have Bella who's been kidnapped and terrorized by the bad guy for weeks upon weeks -- so much so that everyone is pretty sure she'd dead. And we have Zsadist who is extremely damaged in a "let me count the ways" way. We got a glimpse of attraction between them in the second book (the one before this one) and it wetted my appetite for this book, no doubt about it. And then....Bella's ordeal is sort of glossed right over. She doesn't remember the last bit of physical torture she's put through so there's no recovery needed. And Zsadist's history came out in a big way...but the scenes were so far removed from the present and his feelings for Bella (even though they are what trigger the memories) that it just added another disconnect from the love story between the two of them. Add in a bunch of other subplots and threads leading to future stories...and, I guess my problem with this book was it read more like a plain old paranormal instead of a romance. *sigh* After the gutwretching scenes in Lover Eternal where Ward brought me, the reader, so deeply into the emotions of the characters, I expected more of the same here and I didn't quite get it.
Actually, today's trip wasn't that bad. Went in looking for one book and came out with two others in addition to that one. Granted, one of the additions was a hardcover but...but...it was on sale!
The books:
Lover Awakening by JR Ward
Murphy's Law by Lori Foster
Dark Celebration by Christine Feehan
I've read Lover Awakening already. (No surprise that was the one I'd been going out for specificially.)
I'm still debating on how well I liked the book. Don't get me wrong, it was an awesome story. But, it didn't quite hold up to what I'd thought it would be. The first two in the series, especially Lover Eternal, had me crying in places but this one didn't. Which, I honestly expected to be crying through the whole thing. I mean, we have Bella who's been kidnapped and terrorized by the bad guy for weeks upon weeks -- so much so that everyone is pretty sure she'd dead. And we have Zsadist who is extremely damaged in a "let me count the ways" way. We got a glimpse of attraction between them in the second book (the one before this one) and it wetted my appetite for this book, no doubt about it. And then....Bella's ordeal is sort of glossed right over. She doesn't remember the last bit of physical torture she's put through so there's no recovery needed. And Zsadist's history came out in a big way...but the scenes were so far removed from the present and his feelings for Bella (even though they are what trigger the memories) that it just added another disconnect from the love story between the two of them. Add in a bunch of other subplots and threads leading to future stories...and, I guess my problem with this book was it read more like a plain old paranormal instead of a romance. *sigh* After the gutwretching scenes in Lover Eternal where Ward brought me, the reader, so deeply into the emotions of the characters, I expected more of the same here and I didn't quite get it.