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Wrath (New Species, #6)
by Laurann Dohner
by Laurann Dohner
Jess the Romanceaholic's review
bookshelves: 2012-read, raped-or-abused, alpha-male, kidnapped, realistically-sized-heroine, on-the-run, steam-level-steamy
Mar 20, 12
bookshelves: 2012-read, raped-or-abused, alpha-male, kidnapped, realistically-sized-heroine, on-the-run, steam-level-steamy
Read in March, 2012
I should probably establish a few things before I really get into the meat of the review here.
First, I'm a big fan of this series. I freely acknowledge that this series is a Guilty Pleasure of mine, because frankly, the writing is pretty bad. Incredibly stilted dialog, ridiculous situations, and of course horrific abuse from caricature villains.
Normally, I enjoy it anyway.
This book, however, was an enormous let-down. I'm not quite sure if it's simply the fact that I've read the entire series and so "the formula" is getting really old for me, or if it's simply that this book jumped the shark for me.
I was excited to learn that the heroine is a little plump ("needs to lose 30 lbs"), and of course love seeing a traumatized New Species male get past his history and find love.
I even enjoyed the premise behind how Wrath and Lauren ended up spending time together.
However.
The dialog is stilted. True, it's always stilted, and Ms. Dohner has always been notorious for telling instead of showing in every book of hers that I've read, but it seemed quite a bit more pronounced in this one.
Wrath's supposed hatred of human females fell horribly flat, and Lauren's reactions to some of the events in the story were really unrealistic.
Add into that Lauren's friend Amanda and her over-the-top behavior, (view spoiler), and some very tame love scenes, and I was just flat out sorry I'd spent my money on this one.
2/5 Stars, and I can only hope that Tiger will be better, or I might truly be done with this series.
First, I'm a big fan of this series. I freely acknowledge that this series is a Guilty Pleasure of mine, because frankly, the writing is pretty bad. Incredibly stilted dialog, ridiculous situations, and of course horrific abuse from caricature villains.
Normally, I enjoy it anyway.
This book, however, was an enormous let-down. I'm not quite sure if it's simply the fact that I've read the entire series and so "the formula" is getting really old for me, or if it's simply that this book jumped the shark for me.
I was excited to learn that the heroine is a little plump ("needs to lose 30 lbs"), and of course love seeing a traumatized New Species male get past his history and find love.
I even enjoyed the premise behind how Wrath and Lauren ended up spending time together.
However.
The dialog is stilted. True, it's always stilted, and Ms. Dohner has always been notorious for telling instead of showing in every book of hers that I've read, but it seemed quite a bit more pronounced in this one.
Wrath's supposed hatred of human females fell horribly flat, and Lauren's reactions to some of the events in the story were really unrealistic.
Add into that Lauren's friend Amanda and her over-the-top behavior, (view spoiler), and some very tame love scenes, and I was just flat out sorry I'd spent my money on this one.
2/5 Stars, and I can only hope that Tiger will be better, or I might truly be done with this series.
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Mar 20, 2012 07:59pm
Uh oh. I'm like you, I'm reading these for their sort of because-they're-bad goodness. Justice was just sort of okay for me and I haven't even cracked this one open yet. For what these cost (thanks, Ellora), I'm not going to last longer either if this continues.
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I was SO disappointed. The series as a whole is campy and melodramatic and ridiculous but I love it.. This one though, everything I dislike about the series was far more pronounced and what I normally love just wasn't there. I don't often say this about ebooks because I don't want to get sucked into a pricing debate, but this one was incredibly overpriced in relation to quality :-/
I have to agree about the dialogue... I started to wonder if perhaps they were written by someone for whom English isn't a first language or it had been translated, but apparently not. Things are getting a little repetitive in this series now and in this book, all I wanted to do was smack Amanda in the head every time she opened her mouth!
I haven't read this installation yet in the series, but I've been reading every book, one after the other since I found Fury about 4 weeks ago. I cannot agree with you more overall! The terrible writing! But I love the premise and sometimes it's just so damn funny. Bit the dialogue can be great or it's waaaayyy too wordy (the "tell too much" vs. "show it" you had mentioned). But I HAVE to know how it goes for Tiger. And Flame. I'm bummed she picked Wrath- and unknown- for this book.
