6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Flaming Sybil, July 30, 2008
This review is from: Bound by Flame (The Dark Crescent Sisterhood) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the second book in the Dark Crescent Sisterhood series. It stars my favorite sybil of them all. The aggressive, hot tempered, light your shoe laces on fire sybil... Cynda. I love her. This story is about her and Nick, you know Creed's twin brother who is also a Curson.
While Riana and Creed are blissfully happy, Cynda keeps lighting Nick on fire. On the other hand Nick doesn't have a nifty tattoo like his brother to control his Asmodai half, it's just through his own self control. Which ironically Cynda's fire and smoke is threatening. More sybils die, Asmodai keep popping up like a never ending army, and Cynda just might stop flaming long enough to fall inlove.
This book starts out faster and much better then the first book. It is great and I absolutely love how Nick handles Cynda's temper tantrums "stop smoking or you'll give away our position." :) This is a great book and I can't wait for Bound by Light! Definitely a recommend.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cynda....FLAMING FIREBIRD......., July 31, 2008
This review is from: Bound by Flame (The Dark Crescent Sisterhood) (Mass Market Paperback)
Happy to say that I picked this book up and read it in one day, the book was exciting from the first page one and beyond. Loved the interaction between Nick and Cynda. I also enjoyed the more detail in how the Triad works and the connection deepens between the Triad Sisters and the Lowell Brothers. Someone is out killing Fire Sybils, and Cynda is the target,can Nick save her? The side characters are vey endearing and playing heavily into the story. Please read this series, you will enjoy it. Now eagerly waiting to read Merrilee and Jake,the the third Lowell brother. Really enjoyed this book and the previous one.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Weak Character Development & Annoying Heroine, August 4, 2008
This review is from: Bound by Flame (The Dark Crescent Sisterhood) (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book back to back w/ the first book in the series. Compared to the first book, the follow was a disappointment.
I could not like the heroine, Cynda, the Fire Sister. In the first book, she narcs on her sister to the Mother superiors. In this books, when she is in a similar situation, she keeps everything secret. When her sisters find out, Cynda wants them to support her unlike how she supported Riana in the first book. I just found this character distasteful. She appeared to be very immature, constantly letting her powers out of control and burning her clothes the room or other people as a consequence.
Storywise, someone is killing off all the Fire Sisters. So Nick, Creed's twin cop, is guarding her. There is an instant attraction between the two, but the Mother Superios are against any type of union w/ them.
Ovearll, I did not like this story. The heroine was annoying, the hero was underdevoloped. Mostly what I got out of the hero, Nick, was that he was suppose to be cool and in control of all his powers and of Cynda. He didn't appear to have that much of a personality other than not wanting to get his new brother Jacob killed. The love scenes between the two were also very lacking. Plotwise, there were alot more weakness in theis story then the first book. No further details about the Sisterhood history was given; finding a sister of the Water element for the first time in centuries was mentioned in a couple of lines even though the character is one of the main characters; no real history or details about the Lowell brothers was given either.
I would only recommend this book if you wish to continue on the series. I will still likely get the 3rd book about the Wind Sister, because both the heroine and the hero appear different and interesting. But I hope the 3rd book will be better plotwise. I do not plan on keeping this book, it will immediately go to the used book store as this book will likely never be re-read by me.
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