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Wilder's Mate (Bloodhounds, #1)
by Moira Rogers
by Moira Rogers
I'd call this a very weak three-star book. There's an intriguing premise here, but none of the elements are fleshed out enough to be engrossing. All the components - romance, world building, action plot - are almost skimmed over, making them feel perfunctory.
The hero and heroine meet and spend a few days on horses together, which the author does not actually write out for us to see, then suddenly they're consumed by passion and hooking up. The world building names the components of her "steampunk" world, but then doesn't go into details, leaving it just another "Our Vampires Are Different" paranormal romance. Then the action plot, the conflict that sends our heroine off into the dangerous wasteland with a scary bloodhound, resolves in a anticlimactic *pfft* of a weak fight scene. No sense of unbeatable odds, no dazzling maneuvers, no dramatic last ditch efforts. Just awerewolf bloodhound turning into a wolf beast and mowing baddies down handily before the heroine tosses off an attack that easily vanquishes the villain with no risk to herself.
/yawn
The hero and heroine meet and spend a few days on horses together, which the author does not actually write out for us to see, then suddenly they're consumed by passion and hooking up. The world building names the components of her "steampunk" world, but then doesn't go into details, leaving it just another "Our Vampires Are Different" paranormal romance. Then the action plot, the conflict that sends our heroine off into the dangerous wasteland with a scary bloodhound, resolves in a anticlimactic *pfft* of a weak fight scene. No sense of unbeatable odds, no dazzling maneuvers, no dramatic last ditch efforts. Just a
/yawn
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Reading Progress
| 03/16/2011 |
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15.0% | "I'm supposed to be working through my backlog of paper books, but this one's just calling my name." | |
| 03/16/2011 |
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42.0% | "Ehhhh, far too soon for a hookup. Bye bye sexual tension." |
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Mar 17, 2011 11:11am
bummer because I really like Moira Rogers!
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I've never read any of her other books, so I couldn't say if this is something a fan of hers would or wouldn't like.
Boo. I was thinking of getting this book. Will put it on the 'buy when you have lotsa money' list then.


