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To Tame the Hunter (Silhouette Collector's Edition)

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Selena Caldwell knows that York Sutherland wants her because his chief business rival has her. York wants revenge and Selena is his ticket to getting it. She determines not to succumb to York, but she can only resist him for so long...

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The only complaint I have with it is the same complaint I have with most of JAK's early books...she uses too many exclaimers and the love scenes are too purple. Even though there are 3 or 4 consummation scenes, I still rated the book PG-13 because the descriptions are fairly flowery. Here's a passage from the first consummation scene to demonstrate what I mean:

"Tell me you want me, Selena darling," he ordered roughly as she writhed beneath him. "Tell me you need me tonight as much as I need you!"

She moved her legs lightly along his, glorying in the feel of him, and her arms curved lightly around his neck. "I want you, York. You must know that by now!" Did the canvas have to beg for the artist's touch?

"Sweetheart!"

Okay...get the picture? If you can quit laughing long enough to get through that scene, you'll find that the remaining consummation scenes aren't quite so purple. All of them are varying shades of it, but none of them are the pulsing, neon flashing violet of that first scene.

All in all, this is a great book and their relationship is pretty hot for the most part. I wouldn't let the canvas analogies deter you from buying it.

Richard Anderson's company cheated to win the last engineering contract. Therefore, York Sutherland planned revenge. Everything to York was either win or lose, and he always won!

Selena Caldwell had been dating Richard only a short time when York decided she was the key to destroying Richard. To Selena's mind, York was a jaguar and she was the prey he stalked.

**** This story caught me in the very first paragraph and never let me go! The one time I had to put the book down I was frustrated! All I wanted to do was hurry back to the story. There are some wonderful hours to be spent with this couple of lovers! ****

As a Jayne Ann Krentz fan, I was slightly disappointed in this book. It made me feel as if she was tentatively dipping her toes into the genre of romantic fiction, but was hesitant to go all the way. The heroine, Selena Caldwell, needed a bit of backbone - could one really have an immediate affair with the guy who just told you your fiance is married? I found the characters insufficiently involving to allow me to accept that, and, frankly, I didn't like York Sutherland. Driven guys are OK, but he seemed slightly obsessive, overly arrogant, and Selena should have given him a boot up his ego several times before surrendering to his charms. Other Stephanie James books are better - try those first.

This is the worst JAK's novel I have read. Only the writers you love a lot can disappoint you so much. It is very out-of-date. I can hardly believe there are contemporary readers that like this novel. York is a dominant male, arrogant and so prepotent that sometimes he verges on violence, not considering just for one second what the heroine, Selena, thinks, hopes or believes. And she is so weak! and inconstant: first she cannot stand his arrogance, and suddenly (the morning after...- she loves him. He says terrible sentences like: I want you, I will have you, give yourself to me. And she: her mouth says no, but her body says yes - which has always remembered me of rape. Sex, even in romantic novels, is something two enjoy, it is not something one gives and the other one takes as a hunting piece.

ok - normally i am a big fan of Krentz (who wrote this under the name James) but this time, not so much.

the basic story line is selena finds herself constantly cornered and hunted by york, in an apparent attempt to ruin selena's boyfriend's business.

ok, first of all, how many of you would date (let along sleep with) a man (or woman) who you KNEW was using you to get to the person you are already dating... then, it gets worse, selena finds out bad things about her current boyfriend and runs away, right into the arms of york. i have issues with york - big issues. first he is too hard, has no feelings, and i did not relate to him at all. for all i cared, he could have dropped off the face of the planet. then there was selena - she stood there and took pretty much whatever york dished out. she tried to hold her own (not in a good way, but in a sneaky, illegal way - can we say industrial spying) and failed miserably. personally i think she might as well have laid down and let him wipe his feet on her.

in addition to the horrible 'created' characters, the story felt rushed, and the plot just didn't do it for me either. the whole story is them going from place to place and him accusing her of running away. if she was smart, she would have called the police when he followed her to utah - it is called stalking people. this is not a good thing. plus he constantly manhandles her. also - not a good thing.

so all in all, i personally felt this was a oomplete waste of time, and not worth the paper it was written on. if you feel the need to read it, i beg you to check it out of the library, please, save yourself some money.

This rerelease of older JAK Silhouette is a delight though way too rushed to be considered a gem. This might have worked better as a large book, but the time limit of the mini books really hurts this story. Too much happens too fast to be fully believable.

Selana gets in the crosshairs of York Sutherland's quest to bring down a business rival, because she is dating that rival. York comes after her like a steamroller, and her mind tells her it is only because she is dating the man he wants to destroy, but her heart won't listen.

As the first blush of their affair wears off, and questions set in, she begins to fear destroying his rival and winning her go hand in hand. Selena naturally strives to make certain this is not the case, but the way she goes about it is just to unbelieavble. They barely have begun their affair, when she is demanding he abandon all efforts to crush his rival - lose millions of dollars - just to probe he loves her more. Sheesh, I wanted to tell her GET REAL. You don't make those wild demanded in the first two days of a romance!!

Still all in all a nice quickie read. Just wish it was paced better and there had been time to develop the story ( which is not JAK's fault but the limitation of the publisher!)

This re-release of older JAK Silhouette is a delight though way too rushed to be considered a gem. This might have worked better as a large book, but the time limit of the mini books really hurts this story. Too much happens too fast to be fully believable.

Selena gets in the cross-hairs of York Sutherland's quest to bring down a business rival, because she is dating that rival. York comes after her like a steamroller, and her mind tells her it is only because she is dating the man he wants to destroy, but her heart won't listen.

As the first blush of their affair wears off, and questions set in, she begins to fear destroying his rival and winning her go hand in hand. Selena naturally strives to make certain this is not the case, but the way she goes about it is just to unbelievable. They barely have begun their affair, when she is demanding he abandon all efforts to crush his rival - lose millions of dollars - just to probe he loves her more. Sheesh, I wanted to tell her GET REAL. You don't make those wild demanded in the first two days of a romance!!

Still all in all a nice quickie read. Just wish it was paced better and there had been time to develop the story ( which is not JAK's fault but the limitation of the publisher!)