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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great book of deep emotions and a good mystery to solve, February 7, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: The Soulmate (Avenging Angels, Book 4) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #370) (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved this book. Read it cover to cover without putting it down once. It wasn't a fluff romance or a contived murder mystery. Carly Bishop has done a superb job of integrating mystery, the supernatural, and romance into a story you won't want to put down. An angel with increasing memories of his mortal existance caught between avenging his own death with heavenly purpose and remembering and rediscovering the love between soulmates. It was a wonderful journey exploring all the wonderful things about love and the gut-wrentching emotions of death and survival, all wrapped into a murder mystery designed to tease your brain. The characters are very believable and intriguing. I reccommend this and the other Avenging Angel books highly.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A Soul-less Book, April 14, 2008
This review is from: The Soulmate (Avenging Angels, Book 4) (Harlequin Intrigue Series #370) (Mass Market Paperback)
This one is pretty bad. Lots of telling. Telling us how powerful Kiel is, how in love Kellar and Robyn were, how awful it was losing him, etc. The author doesn't show anything. I know the mystery isn't the big draw here but it was pretty contrived and obvious. I had the murder mystery figured out by page 5 and Kellar's death worked out almost before I'd opened the book.
The sex scene was pretty tame and seemed to me to pretty much amount to little better than rape. She's unconscious with a man she doesn't know at all. But, oh no, it's ok because he has the soul of her late husband and some of his memories and he's only doing it to save her life! Not really. Not for me. She's unconscious. She doesn't give her consent. She doesn't know it's her husband's soul. It's not romantic. It is a little squicky, though.
Oh! And there was no limit to Kiel's heavenly powers. I know he's an angel but that doesn't mean he gets to be a complete and utter deux ex machina whenever the author needs him to be. There was no situation he couldn't handle. No problem, including a collapsing mine, that he couldn't fix with his magic powers. Sloppy writing and bad world-building.
And now my favorite part, as a bonus, because it was so ridiculous: "Her hands were very close now to the throbbing in his groin...it was a kiss...more sancrosanct, more pure, than any kiss anywhere, in all time, had been." Can someone explain to me how the kiss can be so freaking pure if the man is rocking a throbbing b*ner at the same time? Nothing wrong with sex, nothing wrong with hard-ons, but don't tell me the man is popping tent and then two paragraphs later have him thinking how "pure" something he's doing is. Doesn't work.
My only recommendation is that if you have this book you throw it away now. Not a keeper. Not even something I wish I'd read at all.
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