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I love Lora Leigh, but this isn't one of my favorites. Yes, there are the usual romantic scenes, the military alpha male, and suspense, but something in the story didn't work for me. The heroine is the victim of a near rape, and while in the beginning she seems to have problems relating to the man she's always loved, she gets over the attack far too quickly to be believable. He says he won't push her, but from the first night, he's trying albeit slowly to get her to be with him. I also have problems with him wanting her to share with his friends. Who does that? Especially if she's the only one for him.
Some of the writing is pretty cheesy and I can't believe I'm saying this, but this hero needed to lay off the endearments. Just about every sentence out of his mouth had some sweet talking term.
Authors need to stop using the word "womb". It's just not a sexy or romantic word. When I think of womb, I think of pregnancy and birth. Why is it that in so many Lora Leigh stories the man is the adult who has lusted after the teenage heroine and waited until she was of legal age to make a move? She uses this plot device so often that I've lost track of how many times I've read this in one of her books. That and the use of the phrase "damn you" during love scenes. That's another classic Lora Leigh move.
Some of the writing is pretty cheesy and I can't believe I'm saying this, but this hero needed to lay off the endearments. Just about every sentence out of his mouth had some sweet talking term.
Authors need to stop using the word "womb". It's just not a sexy or romantic word. When I think of womb, I think of pregnancy and birth. Why is it that in so many Lora Leigh stories the man is the adult who has lusted after the teenage heroine and waited until she was of legal age to make a move? She uses this plot device so often that I've lost track of how many times I've read this in one of her books. That and the use of the phrase "damn you" during love scenes. That's another classic Lora Leigh move.
