December 29, 2011 Night Play
- ISBN13: 9780312992422
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Bride McTierney has had it with men. They’re cheap, self-centered, and never love her for who she is. But though she prides herself on being independent, deep down she still yearns for a knight in shining armor.
She just never expected her knight in shining armor to have a shiny coat of fur…
Deadly and tortured, Vane Kattalakis isn’t what he seems. Most women lament that their boyfriends are dogs. In Bride’s case, hers is a wolf. A Were-Hunter wolf. Wanted dead by his enemies, Vane isn’t looking for a mate. But the Fates have marked Bride as his. Now he has three weeks to either convince Bride that the supernatural is real or he will spend the rest of his life neutered–something no self-respec… More >>
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J. C. Lin
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The sex scenes are quite disturbing. Especially when the heroine is a size 18. Maybe the author is trying to reach out to the plus size women and I totally get the point, you don’t have to be stick skinny to live in this world, but this a romance novel and I’d like the author to at least keep the heroines the dress size they usually wear.
She also has to be more convincing on how a classic handsome looking heart throb managed to fall in love with a woman such as Bride. She just seems a little plain.
Rating: 2 / 5
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Nike
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She’s a good enough writer with a great imagination, but too much time spent on her heroine’s size 18 body and the hot guy inexpliciably going for it is not only unconvincing but icky.
Rating: 3 / 5
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Deanna Griffith
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I was a little hesitant about this book, but after reading all the great reviews I thought I would give it a shot. Sorry, but I have to agree with the reviews about the size of the leading lady being too distracting. I probably would have been able to finish it if Bride would have quit complaining once in a while. When she kept bringing it up I couldn’t get the image out of my head of this great hunk of a guy with this really large, okay, obese, woman. Also, I think we have enough of an obesity problem in America without authors trying to make us believe we can look beautiful and be healthy at any size. ( Beauty comes from within, but a size 18 is not healthy.) If her man really loved her, he would not be encourageing her to eat more, but would help her eat more healthy.(No large slices of cake at the wedding.) I’ve read a lot of books where the authors have been describing their leading ladies as less than perfect,( maybe they are flat chested, not very striking features, just ordinary everyday type people)and I think that is great! However, I do notice that the leading men are all gorgeous hunks without an ounce of fat on them. Is this a bit of a double standard or what? I guess I just have a hard time believing that this great looking guy would fall for this particular leading lady, but then it is fantasy after all. I just prefer my fantasies with less of a weight problem.
Rating: 1 / 5
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D. Wall
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I had to force myself to finish this one as the story and characters it never really caught me enough.
Also, while having a lush figure and carrying 10-20 pounds extra so the heroine isn’t unrealistically skinny would indeed be refreshing, a size 18 is heading for, if not already, obese, sorry. An obese heroine contrasted with the hero being so physically perfect just doesn’t gel for many readers … myself in particular
And for those who blindly believe urban myths: “A woman of Marilyn’s height, at the extreme of Marilyn’s weight range (140 lbs), would probably wear a size 12 dress today (which is the same dress size listed for Marilyn in the book The Unabridged Marilyn).” See http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/mmdress.htm
Rating: 3 / 5
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John Keitz
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Looking for something light to read between the last Dexter novel and the upcoming Vince Flynn, I pulled this one off the shelf. My Wife likes Kenyon, so I thought I’d try one. Unfortunately, I realized about 100 pages in that I had already read this one before. What total trash! Oohh, he’s so sexy. Oohh, I can’t wait to get in her pants…” Blah, blah, blah. The unfortunate part is that it starts off almost interesting. But, it falls quickly after the prologue. Its a book about nothing, without Seinfeld’s wit.
Basically, all we have here is a writer detailing her leather-clad, bad-boy [...] for her readers, like all her other books. She came highly recommended, but I would never pick up one of her books again. Just creepy-bad!
Rating: 1 / 5