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One Bite With A Stranger (The Others #1)
by Christine Warren
by Christine Warren
This story was okay bordering on bleh. Like many of it's genre, it dives into maddening passion and calls it 'eternal love'; though anyone with any sense who's been in a real relationship knows better. Survive the first 10 months, then the first 10 years before you start calling it 'eternal'.
At any rate the female lead is typically 'strong' for this type of story; meaning that she's got a good head on her shoulders and is firmly established in her own right until the first hint of the male lead and then she seems to go into heat like an animal and her will bends to the 'alpha male' like a willow branch in a hurricane.
Do women seriously contemplate or desire this sort of exchange? If so, then it's no wonder modern man is hopelessly lost around his female counterpart. You'd have to be a literal mind reader-much like the male lead-to figure your way through the conflicting signals.
At any rate, I could only wade through about half of this story before I simply couldn't read any more. Bouts of murderous jealousy, sparked because the female lead wasn't instantly 'his' and overbearing 'friends' of the female lead that immediately conflict with the male make this story a torturous mess fairly early on; and lest we forget, there is the twist of bad vampires being made willy-nilly that our lead male must investigate and put a stop to, but can only barely bring his mind to contemplate because his penis and sex-drive are suddenly more important.
You'd think after 600 years a guy would have better self control.
Read only if supernatural romances with the requiste, over-the-top domination/sex scenes are a must for you. It definitely wasn't as good as 'Fairy Princess' in my opinion.
At any rate the female lead is typically 'strong' for this type of story; meaning that she's got a good head on her shoulders and is firmly established in her own right until the first hint of the male lead and then she seems to go into heat like an animal and her will bends to the 'alpha male' like a willow branch in a hurricane.
Do women seriously contemplate or desire this sort of exchange? If so, then it's no wonder modern man is hopelessly lost around his female counterpart. You'd have to be a literal mind reader-much like the male lead-to figure your way through the conflicting signals.
At any rate, I could only wade through about half of this story before I simply couldn't read any more. Bouts of murderous jealousy, sparked because the female lead wasn't instantly 'his' and overbearing 'friends' of the female lead that immediately conflict with the male make this story a torturous mess fairly early on; and lest we forget, there is the twist of bad vampires being made willy-nilly that our lead male must investigate and put a stop to, but can only barely bring his mind to contemplate because his penis and sex-drive are suddenly more important.
You'd think after 600 years a guy would have better self control.
Read only if supernatural romances with the requiste, over-the-top domination/sex scenes are a must for you. It definitely wasn't as good as 'Fairy Princess' in my opinion.
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Same goes for me! My first reaction was more angry frustration then anything else, but you've managed to take that, and put together an apt review as well as dash any hopes I had of this getting any better!I'm about a fourth of the way into the story... and am pretty sure there's no way I can continue ...I can't seem to like any of the characters let alone bring myself to actually care what happens to any of 'em!
I really wish I would have read the reviews before I started this and all of them, just not a few. Good God, I have been able to skip over some things and feel like I didn't miss a thing, not to mention that I am getting bored with it. And to me the heroine is rather confusing in that she keeps saying she is an independent and strong women, yet lets her views and opinions be shot down by her overbearing friends, one in particular I can't stand, and the hero. I will finish and read another before I write the series off altogether, but right now, I'm not happy and wishing I would have passed over it like I have been doing for a while. Thanks!
I'm bored with the characters already, but being a creature of habit, I'm going to plow through to the end quickly so I can get on to the mext book.