Helpful Score: 3
I found the third book of this series to be very disappointing and forgettable. From the description of the book I was expecting this to be her steamiest one yet what with the two brothers and the piano tutor. You might go into this expecting some great menage a trois scenes, or at the very least two competing lovers. But Brooks doesn't go for this and instead falls back on her same exact formula. Instead of having an interesting rivalry between the brothers, Tychar and Trag come across as petulant and immature. They fight and bicker and for some unexplained reason Kyra chooses Tychar over Trag when the brothers are very similar in looks and personality. Overall the novel was flat and formulaic. I couldn't wait for the book to be over. Thankfully it wasn't that long.
Helpful Score: 2
I really liked the first two books in this series but Rogue is very dry and almost boring. The sex, of course, is spectacular.
This story revolves around a lizard queen (with scales and a tail) and her people on Darconia (a world very far from Earth and in the future). The lizards obviously live in a desert environment very like Egypt. The queen recruits a piano teacher from Earth to teach the princess to play. However, this isn't her main reason for brining a single female to Darconia.
The queen is a collector of exotic species and has many slaves. She has gotten it in her head to breed one of these species. You see, the queen is some kind of amphibian and her most desireable slaves are mammals. Therefore no offspring. The other dilemma is that the cat slaves must be excited in order to "grow" and the queen just doesn't do it for them so no sex with the cats for the queen. Hence the subterfuge of a piano teacher for her child.
It's an ok novel just not very exciting.
This story revolves around a lizard queen (with scales and a tail) and her people on Darconia (a world very far from Earth and in the future). The lizards obviously live in a desert environment very like Egypt. The queen recruits a piano teacher from Earth to teach the princess to play. However, this isn't her main reason for brining a single female to Darconia.
The queen is a collector of exotic species and has many slaves. She has gotten it in her head to breed one of these species. You see, the queen is some kind of amphibian and her most desireable slaves are mammals. Therefore no offspring. The other dilemma is that the cat slaves must be excited in order to "grow" and the queen just doesn't do it for them so no sex with the cats for the queen. Hence the subterfuge of a piano teacher for her child.
It's an ok novel just not very exciting.
This book was an easy read. Still missing something. I think its the hero, he lacks substance.
love this series
like this book
The third book of this series was very disappointing. The two brothers and the piano tutor seemed like good premise. Brooks created a cheep romance. Instead of having an interesting interaction between the brothers, Tychar has the persobality of a doormat, pleasing and functional but not much more and Trag comes across as petulant and immature. They fight and bicker and Kyra chooses Tychar over Trag when the brothers are very similar in looks and personality. Kyra her self is anoying, with her use of antique earth sayings, that none understands so far in the future, so far from earth. She was meant to come across as devaloping from wall flower into rose with thorns, instead she just gets anoying and childlish. The best character in the novel is the Draco queen and her consort. Though they are hardly ever mentioned. 95% of the book is devoted to flat interaction between H+H that doesnt really lead anywhere. The end takes barely 2 chapters and one of those is devoted to mindless technical describtions of equipment needed for comunicating while trying to overthrow the unsupper that killed the queen. Overall the novel was flat.
MINOR SPOILER ALERT:
It can be described in 3 sentences. H+H/H are temper-tentrum trhowing. The reformist queen gets killed by traditionalist flat-fleshed villain. The Consort, Princess, H+H/H flee, band up with illegal arms dealers/pirates and attack the new ruler, supported by the population that liked the dead queen. All through out the book is a repetetive sales pitch for McDonalds, promissing to open vegetarian branches on Draconia.
...I couldn't wait for the book to be over.
MINOR SPOILER ALERT:
It can be described in 3 sentences. H+H/H are temper-tentrum trhowing. The reformist queen gets killed by traditionalist flat-fleshed villain. The Consort, Princess, H+H/H flee, band up with illegal arms dealers/pirates and attack the new ruler, supported by the population that liked the dead queen. All through out the book is a repetetive sales pitch for McDonalds, promissing to open vegetarian branches on Draconia.
...I couldn't wait for the book to be over.
