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Book Review of Scent of Darkness (Darkness Chosen, Bk 1)

Scent of Darkness  (Darkness Chosen, Bk 1)
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Helpful Score: 1


Well, I am one reader who didn't care for this book. I am an avid paranormal reader (big fan of Kenyon and Ward), but I felt this book was just thrown together. It has a good (and different) story line, but I thought the writing was terrible. There were short, choppy sentences, and a lot of the story was disconnected. I feel that it was just a skeleton of a story, that never really got fleshed out well; there was just the bare minimum to each scene. I wanted to like the heroine, but wasn't really given enough to know or understand where she was coming from. I couldn't follow her moods of loving him, then hating him, then loving him. The hero could have been great. But he just falls short because, once again, I wasn't given enough to go on. I mean, this woman has been working very closely with him for three years, and all of a sudden, he is overcome with lust/love for her and can't get enough? If there was supposed to be some magical element that caused this (brought on by their 'mating'), I could buy it. The author also took too much time to get to it. I was almost halfway through the book and realized that only 12 hours had lapsed in the story, and it hadn't really gone anywhere. Then the ending was just thrown in there. I kept reading because several friends kept raving about it. But I was glad it was a quick read.