47 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
So Steamy and Sexy, Yet Soooo Silly, March 7, 2006
This review is from: Deep, Dark & Dangerous (Paperback)
I can take an unlikely plot line with the best of them and thoroughly enjoy a fantastical story, but Jaid Black's latest book had me groaning in disappointment. Tall, dark and sexy Vikings...yes, please! A hero that is kind, considerate and all the previous things mentioned....oh, yeeeessss, definitely please! A heroine that is spunky as well as funny - okay, that's a plus as well, but I weep, utterly weep, for the plot of "Tall, Dark and Dangerous" by Jaid Black.
Madalyn Simon has had it with Hollywood. Sick of the thinly veiled veneer of cutthroat backstabbing, the actress is calling it quits and going into seclusion. She's going where no glitzy glamour girl has gone before - the Alaskan wilderness. She's determined to tough it and prove to herself that she's got more in her than just fear of broken nails and the next red carpet party. When her feisty, anti-establishment sister visits, the two are in for an unforeseen adventure in the form of three too-handsome-to-be-true fur-clad men, who take them hostage. Otar Thordssen claims Madalyn for his own and soon the sisters are in for the strangest experience of their lives - A hidden underground world of "neo" Vikings that seem literally to be throwbacks to days of old. In a world where women have no choices beyond those that a man gives them, can Madalyn learn to trust, and even love, her dangerously sexy man? She'll need to decide quickly, for war is stirring within the secret community and the rebels are eager to reclaim their rightful places in their archaic society.
There were so many facets to this story that I loved. Black can seriously write some great intimate scenes between characters that make you feel for them. That part, I'm relieved to say, lived up to expectations. I enjoyed the characters, both the main and supporting. Otar was to-die-for sexy and Madalyn was a good match for him with her forgiving nature. Madalyn's sister, Drake, was superb comic relief, and it seems Otar's sister, Agata, may be getting her own story. She should. She was interesting. What I must bemoan is the collapse of the plot. It was evident by the end of the book that Black means this to be a prequel of sorts to her series "Death Row: The Trilogy", which was interesting because it shed some more light on that particular storyline. I couldn't continue to take the story seriously though as Madalyn, Drake and Agata engage in a completely ridiculous scenario towards the end. Won't reveal anything. Suffice it to say there was nudity and money involved, and three women I previously thought of as very intelligent turned into three average twits. Not to mention that it completely took away and detracted from a plot that I was immensely enjoying up until that point. Big Grr. Three stars for a sexy romp of a read (that part was excellent!), minus the last two (sobbing and weeping) for the plot that went sour.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't finish it, March 28, 2006
This review is from: Deep, Dark & Dangerous (Paperback)
I usually look forward to Jaid Black's novels, but I couldn't finish this one. The reason? Because I already read it. Basically it's just like the short story she wrote for the Tie Me Up Tie Me Down anthology with the same premise and same characters. Another factor working against it: it's too long. The original story was easier to read because it was so short.
This time around the forced marriage thing and the limited to no rights allowed women really got to me. I had trouble getting into the romance when the woman's whole life is being forcibly taken from her. If this kind of thing works for you, go for it, the first story of this same premise was somewhat interesting, despite it being very frustrating and infuriating. If you've already read the other one, then avoid this one.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I'd live under a mountain with HIM, June 10, 2006
This review is from: Deep, Dark & Dangerous (Paperback)
The writing's pretty bad, the plot completely unbelievable, and yet I somehow found myself a little charmed by this book. I'll confess that the "hero" did do it for me and the sex scenes were decent (if you can get past the giggle-inducing phrases uttered by our hero during the act). But I found myself eventually skimming through chapters that were just utterly pointless in order to get to the juicy stuff.
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