150 of 160 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent read but nothing spectacular..., April 13, 2008
This review is from: In Her Bed (The Dragons of Challon, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this one without having read the first one and I don't have an overwhelming urge to go and read the first one. It's a decent enough story. Woman alone - pretending to have a husband to keep her property. The warrior who thought he was in love with his cousin's wife but soon realizes that it's really this other woman who's his soulmate. She drugs him and has sex with him to get pregnant. Mayhem and love ensues. Of course there is an evil plot. She has some brothers who I could have done without as well as a man servant who's strangeness was more of a distraction than a quaint eccentricity for me. It's a nice read when you have nothing else going on but I'll wait and check the library first before buying her next one.
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371 of 405 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Book #2, August 11, 2007
This review is from: In Her Bed (The Dragons of Challon, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)
Looks like I will be the "voice of dissent" here. First of all, I want to go on record as saying how well written "A Restless Knight" (book #1) was.
The style of book #2 (this one) is different as it occurs AT THE SAME TIME, BUT FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE as book #1. It was kinda neat, actually; except that there was repeat scenes and EXACT dialogue from book #1 throughout--but again from the perspective of Damien or Aithinne. Yet, when you already know the final outcome(s) kinda puts a "blah" on the suspense/drama.
Okay, that repetition aside, there was a great deal of repeated conversations and thoughts from this book alone. Case in point, Evelynour tells Aithinne something, Aithinne then repeats it to several others and unfortunately, we have to read that same information over and over again. This happens throught the book. And dreams that we read, then experience--almost verbatum. Come on...
Also, I did not like Damien's character! Up until the final millimeter of the book he showed very little feeling for Aithinne other than as a bed partner. It even appeared that he USED her in bed thinking of Tamlyn.
And, that entire "he loves Tamlyn" just got old.
And, all the arguing! ugh
The 3 brothers and guard didn't add to the story, but took away from it. Again, my opinion.
All the jealousy was just tiring. If you remember in book 1 it was Tamlyn that felt Aithinne was the "prettier" cousin. "Wish" (LOL) they could have somehow come to terms with that early in this book.
Finally, the title, "In Her Bed." Well, with a title like that can't really take the book to the local auto shop to read while having the car repaired, huh?
There it is, the voice of dissent. Sorry. I really wanted to like this book. I read book #1--twice.
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137 of 147 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not my cup of tea, April 16, 2008
This review is from: In Her Bed (The Dragons of Challon, Book 2) (Mass Market Paperback)
I decided to pick up this book and her other dragons of challon book after hearing about it, and I read this one after the first one.
*sigh* I did finish this book, I did like it better than the first book. I liked the plot a little bit better on this one. It was interesting to see Aithinne and Damien's point of view in this book. However, I did find myself skimming over the repeated dialouge at some parts.
Still, I had a problem with the flat characters and bad dialouge.
This book and its counterpart were just not my cup of tea!
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