Feral Sins - Disappointed...
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I would have given this book 4 stars, but at one point it just became a written form of adult porn for my liking.  The storyline was great, the 2 lead characters were strong and played off each other well, but the group sex scene including guy-on-guy was just a bit too much.

Suzanne Wright is a talented writer, but to cheapen a great book like this one, totally ruined it for me.
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Like most of Suzanne Wright's fans, I was salivating at the mouth for the "Nick & Shay" story. Now that it's finally here, I had to stop in the middle of reading to express my thoughts. On the plus side, the author stuck to her formula of witty banter that made me laugh out loud. She kept with up with a great storyline as well with the humans and the shifters. Now, however, I have to express what I dislike about the story so far:

Let's start somewhere simple, Shaya. I really wasn't a big fan of Shaya in this book. In her two previous Phoenix Pack stories, Shay's personality was awesome. Even though she wasn't an alpha female (which Wright is VERY talented in creating strong female characters), you could tell that Shaya was still a subtle strong woman. Sweet and very caring. Goes out of her way for her friends. Yet, in this book.. she's kind of a bitch. I think there were times when Wright strayed from the character we came to really like. I was so disappointed how her character was practically wishy washy. Dominant, submissive, dominant, submissive. She really was one extreme to the other. When, in my mind, I viewed her as a perfect combination of both. I'm not going to lie. The scene when Nick & Shaya first meet up was a favorite. She was written as nothing less than extraordinary and then she just became unlikable.

Continuing, there were times throughout the book, it almost seemed as if things were out of place. (SPOILER) The first time Nick and Shaya have sex and it's supposed to be one of those "intense" moments between them where his line is "Only I can make you feel this way, Shay. Only me, only your mate." And as the reader you, of course, sigh and are in a dreamy state. She actually returns with the line, "That works both ways, Beavis." Really?!?! I mean, I get pet names and am a huge fan of them but that particular "pet name" is used previously when she's insulting him. WRONG WRONG WRONG moment to use it. (Of course still my opinion) Just saying that the scene lost something major.

Also, I think a few readers can agree that when it comes to sex scenes in her writing, Suzanne Wright knows her way around an orgasm or two. Yet, with this pair, the chemistry seems rushed. The love scenes almost miss that hot, for lack of a better phrase "grrr I want to rip your clothes off and take you" feeling. This could have a great deal to do with the fact that, again, in previous books you're left with a certain idea of how Nick's character is and how he's set up, yet in this book he's sort of a bitch himself. Yes, I know he's trying to win her back and I know he's trying to earn her trust, but it's really difficult to keep in mind that he's an alpha male with all his ailments, and pushover ways. (BIG sigh)

Listen, I'm a HUGE fan of Suzanne Wright and I will continue to be. She's a frickin awesome writer. I just think that maybe the publishers/editors got a hold of our darling author and maybe pushed her in a direction this book wasn't meant to go. At least that's what I'm hoping. Like my Subject said, this is to be continued. I'm currently 60% into the book and I'm almost praying there are redeeming qualities. I'll be editing more later. Still love you Suzanne!!!! xoxo

I know it's been a while since I've finished the book, however, I finally know how I wanted to finish this review. Sometimes you'll put something on a pedestal, usually a person however in some cases it CAN be a book. I believe that's what happened here. I really thought this book was going to be a WOWSA and was sorely let down. It wasn't a bad book, it was just not the book for me. (tear face) But!! I can say with absolute certainty that I will not let it deter me from being a fan of Ms. Wright's and I will continue to be amazed and read/reread her work. Cause, yeah, she's frickin awesome. Thanks for taking my OPINION into consideration. :-)
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I was disappointed by this installment of the series. Its short, has very little plot advancement, it's tied together with sex, and poorly addresses (in my opinion) Natalie's acknowledgement of the additional sexual needs she has. Natalie has admitted to herself that not only does she enjoy rough sex but she enjoys pain..She is embarrassed by this knowledge, and afraid that Tanner will think ill of her, and the relationship will be in jeopardy. She hides these feelings from Tanner, writing about them in a diary. What a wonderful opportunity for the author to have material to use in the plot...journal entries, and sharing of her secret fantasies, this would have be wonderful, it would have allowed the reader to understand this need from Natalie's point of view .  But alas this did not happen; Tanner does find out and is very willing to assist in providing these additional needs for Natalie, but the scenes were still within the BDSM lite arena.

The writing seemed choppy for me, additional storyline material very thin, and I found I needed a break from the frequent sex scenes. This was a pivotal point in the relationship, one where Natalie was expressing her needs Vs Tanner always expressing his needs, it should have been played up more, developed, instead of glossed over with run of the mill sex scenes. This is a huge development - it shows that Natalie is actually participating in this lifestyle by choice, not participating as part of the desire to please and satisfy Tanner.

I was given this novella by the author for an honest review
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I guess I was hoping that Nathan would be a lot more of an "alpha" type vamp that is so..sexy! He kind of came across as being somewhat indifferent when I wanted more PASSION out of him! Geez! Cyrus was just a bad guy, and I kind of understood the "blood tie" thing between him and Carrie, although I didn't like it. As for Carrie, I think she came across as making the "wrong choices" and was kind of wishy-washy at times. However, this being the first of a new vamp series, I will stay with it and hope that the next installment leaves me more breathless (if you know what I mean). I have read better paranormal books, but I do like to give new authors a chance. You should see my to be read shelves at home!  Give it a try and judge for yourself! I try not to avoid a book because of some one or two star reviews, when reviewers like Harriet Klauser and Romantic Times  seem to be more in line with sharing  the same opinion as I do about many of the same books that I love. Happy Reading!!
98965
As someone who really enjoyed the 3 books of the original trilogy, I was thrilled to see this new book come out.  But...I found myself fairly disappointed with it.  Yes, Daniel did appear in the earlier books.  Hayden, though, is a brand new character.  Perhaps she's meant to be one of the unnamed other Dark Guardians who voted on Connor back in the 3rd book, but then why not name her then?  Would have made more sense to have a story focused on her if she'd been mentioned in the earlier books and part of the circle of girl friends, as we'd be more invested in her as a character.  The other Dark Guardians/elders from the earlier books also appear here, but as decidedly background figures, rather than somewhat more central ones as in the past books.  Overall, I get the feeling that this book is disconnected from the others and feels a little too much like an unnecessary tag-on rather than a cohesive part of the series.

Plot-wise there are a couple things I find it challenging to get past: It's a little hard to believe that Daniel could have stayed with the Wolford community and the other Dark Guardians for so long without shifting where someone could see him.  It's not that I have a hard time accepting that there could be other flavors of shifters, just that he shouldn't have been able to keep his secret for so long.  And the whole Harvester demon...  It's like an abruptly invented 'bad guy' to replace the one defeated at the end of the third book.
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purrfect predicament is definitely not my kind of reading..  even though I read it right through I am not into fictitious shifters who turn themselves into panthers and back again.  The storyline other than the shifting wasn't too bad but I wold not read any more of the series.
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Anyone else want to join me to protest the new, not improved Charley Davidson? We need signs! Seriously, Ms. Jones? BRING BACK CHARLEY! Warning: I've got smelly magic markers and I know how to use them!

I was so anxiously awaiting this book, but it was beyond disappointing. It was like getting a new puppy and then watching it get hit by a semi-truck. Okay, maybe a semi-truck is too harsh. More like a Ford Taurus. But, still, DISAPPOINTED!

When I started reading the series, I was blown away by the witty, sarcastic, badass Grim-Reaper-slash-Private-Investigator called Charley Davidson. I have pretty high standards for memberships in my "Kickass Bitches Club" but Charley made it in, no questions asked.

So, what the hell happened!? Charley went from hella kick ass to "glorified battered woman."

After seeing all the great reviews on here, I'm left with the opinion that there are two schools of thought: those who will see this as a racy story of romance and those who want to kick Reyes' in his son-of-satan nuts.

Which camp are you? Take the following quote from Chapter 18 (Charley regarding an "encounter" with Reyes):

"With a growl that sent my heart racing into overtime, he wrapped one hand around my throat and the other around my waist. From there, he led me back against the wall."

Did you find that romantic? If so, then you're going to love this book. Did you want to throw something heavy? Then welcome to my world.

I am just.not.okay with this role and I am even less OK with the fact that it's happened to someone who was so independent. This does not make sense.

I know I should be rambling about the plot, but I'd have to hire a private investigator to find it. It was kind of like...

Charley is agoraphobic and addicted to the home shopping network after being kidnapped and tortured by the man who once abused Reyes...after Reyes used her as bait. She's all pissed off at him (rightfully so), so she tracks him down at an underground fight club to give him a bill (for $1 million) to compensate her for her investigative services. But then she sees him and the whole fact that he nearly got her killed basically flies out of her vagina. So, yeah, he holds her up against a wall and tells her to be afraid and then she's all like, "YOU ARE SO HAWT! DO ME!"

Oh and every once and a while she's working on this case for a lady who says she's being stalked and someone is leaving dead rabbits in her cupboards.

Oh, and then she gets kidnapped again (won't say by who), but it's an amiable kidnapping and has absolutely nothing to do with anything else.

There's some demons after her, too. Sometimes.

Charley does, however, learn more about her Grim Reaper-ness. After everyone telling her how powerful she is yet never giving her specifics, Reyes randomly decides to open up. No reason. I mean, yeah, it could've helped her protect herself books ago, but why ruin the fun with being honest?

And then there were the explicit scenes of - you know what. Not that I particularly care for those in the first place, but these were excessively bad. And ew. And ew ew ew!

 I know, totally articulate review, right? But I'm a Charley Davidson fan and this book was so not Charley.
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I've got to give a big "meh" to this one.  I waited several weeks after I read it the first time to post the review.  My first impression was uncharacteristically negative, so I wanted to read it again just to see if I had a brain cramp during the first read.  Unfortunately, my first impression was validated.

This entire book could have been summarized into a single chapter if all that needed to happen was that Kitty and some new people introduced a bit of fear into Roman.  And I'm not so certain that goal was even accomplished with the way the characters dropped at the end.  This story just didn't go anywhere...it was more than a bit bizarre and almost completely out of character for Kitty.

I'm looking forward to the return of angsty but kicking butt Kitty.  This one was just angsty.  2.5 stars.
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So disappointing to a true Shelly Laurenston fan!  I didn't exactly hate it, but I definitely didn't love it!  I've been waiting so long after reading Hunting Season (which I did absolutely love!) for the Crows and Ravens to make another appearance, but this was not worth the wait.  It almost didn't feel like a Shelly Laurenston read for me & I've read and loved all of her other series!
1207026
Will buy the next release, but was disappointed.
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I loved the characters in this book, but the plotting was so disappointing that the overall book was only ok.

First the things that I just didn't like about this book:
 1.  Is Kurt proud of his shifter heritage?  Or is he ashamed?  He alternately refers to it as either a curse or onus, and then will talk about it as a birthright.  It was very confusing and seemed to indicate that the author started the story with it one way and then changed his mind about it during the course of the story, but didn't edit the change throughout.
 2.  Why didn't Calvin & Jack ever ask if lycanthropy was contagious, in any way, when they first learned about Kurt?  That would be the very first question/concern that I would have!
 3.  Why didn't Kurt seem to know the contents of his library?  And if he was so set against Calvin & Jack becoming weres, wouldn't he have tried to restrict their access to those books?
 4.  And on that subject, why didn't Kurt want them to become weres?  What were these risks that he constantly harped about, but never explained?
 5.  Why were we given the impression that lycanthropy couldn't be easily communicated, and even that it required the spell originally done to create a were, but then find out that the typical bite can do the job, but that that method is socially frowned upon?
 6.  Why did we have absolutely no indication of any kind of supernatural ruling council until the epilogue?
 7.  What evidence was ever given to us that attempting the magic of the first spell was actually dangerous?  It felt very much that Kurt said it, and so it must be true, and we (and Calvin & Jack) shouldn't question it.
 8.  Finally, and most annoyingly, this book rushed through the subjects that I thought were interesting (i.e. Calvin discovering the library contents and researching actual were history beyond hearsay from Kurt, or Calvin & Jack's concerns over their relationship) but dragged us through inconsequential parts of their lives without even going into detail about it.

Having said all of that, there were however, parts that I loved about this book as well.  The biggest plus about this book is the excellent, relatable characters that Noah created.  I loved all three MCs, I understood their motivations, and felt that each of them responded reasonably to their circumstances (except where noted above).  I loved that Calvin and Jack were devoted to one another, and yet, that both of them also had realistic insecurities that helped make them more empathetic.  I also laughed out loud when one of them referred to the original witches who created the lycanthropy spell (who had been described as being wise and brave) as "cultish tarts"!

I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.
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MILD SPOILER

Well, I love the first book, SWFS, and was looking forward to this book, but was disappointed. I really didn't connect with either main characters and didn't find the catalyst that outed them all that dramatic. Tracy was nasty and Brody was unapproachable and cold. These two just did not make sense to me and I really wasn't feeling the love between them. Furthermore, Mercy destroyed my love of Bo from SWFS because while I can accept him finding comfort with another when he thought Dylan was dead, I can't abide him gearing up to cheat and only Dylan interrupting stopped him. I found that, based on the love between them from the first book, out of characers for Bo and just contrived for this book, but the author knows her characters best, so I'm going to believe that I perceived Bo wrong in SWFS. Another thing with this book is that I found myself reading just to find out about Bo and Dylan and had no real interest in what was going on between the MCs which tells me the story isn't really good. This thought was further solidified when I immediately removed Sidelined from my devic while I still have SWFS on it. Of course, with my disappointment in Bo, that'll probably be removed soon as well. Thusly, I can't recommemd this book and will not be purchasing the 3rd book in the series.
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Let me first start by saying that I have read the other three books in the "Lords of Satyr" series and loved them, Nicholas's story being my personal favorite. I'm relatively new to erotic novels paranormal or otherwise and the "Satyr Series" has been a good initiation, all that being said I have to say I was rather disappointed in this last installment of the series, it didn't dawn on me that it was a combination of two stories until I got into the book. I liked Dominic's story and thought it could have been a stand alone book.

DOMINIC

As another reviewer stated the character of Emma who makes recurring appearances in the other books was very under developed in this latest book and a sad thing being that the story of Dominic was also in turn Emma's story, in the previous books the author showed great potential in making you genuinely curious to see how Emma would turn out as the stories of her sister Jane and Jane's other to sisters (Jordan and Juliette) progressed, unfortunately the end result wasn't up to snuff as the previous storylines. I myself am I reader of all genres and I like a good storyline one that keeps you enthralled to the very end, and although the character of Dominic was well developed and interesting in the same vain as Nicholas, Raine and Lyon (the previous stories) I would have liked to see more interaction between he and Emma besides the sex. I also feel the story was rushed and not as even paced as it could have been. It left me with a few unanswered questions that I don't think Ms. Amber explained fully,some of them being how exactly baby Rose became a demon-hand and why was her destiny or transformation (however you choose to look at it) different from Dominic, who was a demon-hand because his mother was raped by Dominic's predecessor, where as baby Rose whose parents mother being human and father only being a quarter satyr, will end up being Dominic's successor when he dies?

VINCENT

I'm sorry to have to say I think Ms Amber did a disservice to the character of Vincent I believe that he deserved a stand alone book of his own being the first born child of Nicholas and Jane, being the second generation of satyres that we (the readers) know about, not only that she attempted to tell his story in exactly 107 pages along with introducing 5 additional characters and not giving a decent back story for any of them. When I finished reading this story I had more questions than satisfaction, Here are some of the questions I had, maybe someone had similar thoughts:

1. In Vincent's story were he and Landon bisexual and the author only eluded to it? And why did Landon and Vincent both have to marry Cara?

2. What was the purpose of having Landon in the story; the way that he was "dropped" into the story and given a stingy (yet interesting background)? He was an interesting character with the potential for depth and I wanted to get to know him better. I think the author was being lazy and just didn't want to bother writing a more detailed character background, or better yet give Landon his own book, because as it stands he neither added or subtracted to the story in the role that the author assigned him

3. Did Julius live after he was possessed by the demon?

4. Is Marco's wife Millicent human or fey or a mixture of the two and where did she come from?

5. How and Why did Cara go from Shimmerskin to Human and why? To me it was never really explained how she could obtain human form when she was neither Fey, Satyr or other. The author went to great pains in 3 and a half books (counting Dominic's story) to stress that the shimmerskins came from nothing and went back to nothing, also neither did they have feeling, emotions or a will of their own so I don't get it.

I don't know about you but I felt cheated I feel like Elizabeth Amber should have let Dominic's and Vincent's stories be stand alone books in stead of cramming them together and rushing the stories it ruined what thus far has been a good series, hopefully she'll do better with the next installment if there is any. Happy Reading!!!!!
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This was on the disappointing side. Having read all the books in the Curl Up and Dye series and loved them, I had high expectations for this series since it is set in the same world with lots of run ins from the characters in that series. Sadly, with the second installment in The Road to Blissville series, it just doesnt measure up.

My first issue is that there are so many overlaps between the story lines in the Curl Up and Dye series that there is a good chunk of events and information in this book that Id already read in that series. I think in this case, you just might be better off if you haven't read the other series first. For me, that made the first third of this book seem to drag because I needed something new (kind of the point in picking up a new book).

The other is probably more of a personal taste issue, but I strongly dislike stories with this concept of fated mates where the people have no choice. Dont get me wrong. I love all kinds of things that run to the paranormal and I don't even mind the general concept of fate, but when it is pushed to the point where it feels like all choice is taken away and it doesnt matter how a character feels about it, that is just the way it is going to be, I lose any kind of connection to the story. It pushes boundaries for me that are distasteful to me. This pushed those boundaries.

Because of how unwelcoming both characters felt about this relationship, it made it even harder for me to believe anything that happens emotionally, especially when you are suddenly getting the I love you bombs dropped and they know absolutely nothing about each other. When you have absolutely nothing to base those feelings on, I cannot find any realism in them. It just does not work at all for me.

There was so much energy and character and fun in the Curl Up and Dye series that this book (and the first one in this same series) is lacking. I was expecting at least a few touches of the same here, but you never get it. That is also a part of why this only rated as okay for me. I was just expecting more.
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I admit and say that the only reason for me reading this book was because I had read the Feral Breeds MC series and wanted to know how Moira, Dante and Blaze got together. While that was answered, I still felt as if the it was too short and would have liked to read more. I understand that yes, the story does continue in book 4 but I am sorry to say that I won't be making the purchase. As far as an erotic short, this book was packed full of heat. Overall, ok read
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Sorry, i don't think i am going to read another book about werelions ever again. I love wolves, bears and dragon's and I'm gonna stick with them. I just didn't like even one of the books and that is really sad for me
3258919
I had high hopes for this installment of life in Bandit Hills. Especially on Gallons would think the paranormal factor would be high but unfortunately it is not. The brief encounters we have is definitely not enough and I am left craving more. The writing itself is ok but the storyline seems too outrageous to be believable and not because of paranormal reasons. Hopefully the next book gets back to the paranormal more, there was less food which I appreciated but I'm just not feeling the paranormal.