Customer Reviews

Virtual Heaven (Perfect Heroes Series)

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I bought this book because the cover was like a Kathleen Nance cover and she recommended it. What luck!. This book is a winner. I have just finished reading the 6 Merlin legacy books by Quinn Taylor Evans and this book really struck a chord. How clever to connect fantasy - time travel - and todays Virtual reality games together. I think you are the first author to do it. As readers can read in the other reviews, this is a story of Maggie(heroine) being transferred thru a vertual reality game into the world projected by the game and falls in love with Kered (the hero). Maggie is strong and courageous and saves Kered's life plus helps him find "excalibur" and the "holy grail", however the story line refuses to let Kered have her as a wife because of that country's beliefs and Kered has another agenda also, to save his country and establish peace. I refused to read the end of the book until I reached it as I knew it would ruin the book for me, and I was right. I knew the heroine and the hero would get together but could'nt figure out how and that HOW is very clever. Does th story end with everyone staying in the virtual reality game country or does it end with everyone back in modern times, and if so, what about Kered? It was also clever to see how TODAY was entwined in the plot of the game. Ann Lawrence, you are very clever and imaginative and write very well. I read at least 3 books a week and really enjoy good writing. Please, please continue this story. Figure out a story for Tolemac II wars and I would also like to see Vad's own story. There is still so much more to continue on with. Thanks again for this book, I read til 3 this am to finish it and now will re-read it. Keep those books coming, Sincerely, Barbara

If this weren't a romance book, I might only have given it 4 stars, or 4 and a half, because I'm a picky, finicky reviewer. But for the romance genre, I must admit, this was actually incredibly good! It had a wonderful, intriguing plot, a compelling storyline and characters that were utterly believable. I have to confess, I couldn't put it down--it was a real page turner.

The heroine was amazing, the hero was cute and adorable in a very manly, smouldering way, and even the minor characters were three dimensional. Moreover, the author's attention to detail was meticulous, giving the reader a true sense of--as the title suggests--virtual reality.

If you like a book with simmering sexual tension and adrenaline-pumping adventure, then this is for you.

My only real qualm was that I thought the cover art on the back of the book was a bit tacky, but maybe that's just me.

I expected fluff and found a series with tons of original, well developed world building depth. Though a romance series, the Virtual books could stand as straigh SciFi Fantasy. I actually read them backward in order, so book one I found to be a 'set up' book that paves the way the even more detailed and enjoyable 2nd and 3rd book in the series.

Maggie, a silversmith, is urged by her friend who runs a game shop to try out a hot new virtual reality game. Because of a mix of a storm, cosmic alignment, and the celtic pattern of her pendent, all the things necessary to send Maggie to the world the game is based on are in place.

All Maggie wants to do is get home again, but from the moment she appears she finds her fate is tied to the quest and well being of fantastic warrior who believes she's a runaway pleasure slave.

On the surface it's a fluffy premise, but the book is fraught with gritty situations a real sense of peril and a rather disturbing and grim realism of the horror of being a slave and a female in a world where the life of either is held in casual contempt by those in power.

Great characterization. Great world building. I enjoyed it as a scifi fantasy fan as much, if not more, than as a romance fan.

What would happen if, through some fluke of electrical energy, our atoms could be rearranged and we could enter a parallel universe - a virtual reality world? This imaginative concept is at the heart of this novel. Maggie is gulped up into the virtual reality game TOLEMAC WARS during a thunderstorm. The sky is purple, the suns and moons are relocated, and the culture is a primitive blend of Arthurian legend and medieval serfdom. Perhaps most shocking to the reader is the utter slavery into which Maggie tumbles; the author does a fine job of capturing the milieu, the sense of being just another possession, and the complete loss of selfhood that slavery entails. The hero, Kered, was very well characterized as both a product of his times, and a born leader capable of seeing beyond them. The wind-up wasn't as strong as the rest of the book, though, which was what kept me from giving it 5 stars. It started to weaken once Maggie returned to our world, which may only highlight how powerful was the author's characterization of the virtual universe. I don't know if I would want to see a sequel or not - it might be too much of a let-down. But there are plenty of springboards for one (or more) if this creative author is so inclined.

If you like good fantasy romance stories, try this one; it has a nice technological twist.

Ms. Lawrence brings us a heady blend of myth, magic and mystery in this wonderful fantasy adventure. Kered is manly-man medieval-type warrior hero, in search of a solution to his country's problems. What he finds is Maggie, a modern woman transported to his world, who possibly holds the key to his search -- but she may cost him more than he expects to pay: his heart. The two of them made me laugh, made me sit on the edge of my chair, and made me stay up late to finish the book and see how they resolve their situation! A delightful romp through a wonderful world that I look forward to visiting again. Highly recommended, but don't lend it -- you might not get it back.

The plot sounded interesting-girl sent into virtual reality game and meets the perfect guy. The book soon became to boring for me though and I started skimming about half way through the book. When the author wrote something about the hero getting , um, lusty about another woman in some spa or such that's when I realized this book was not for me. The perfect hero may get lusty about another woman but I do not care to read about it and this hero was to boring and arrogant to be my perfect hero.

For the personification of the perfect hero, in my opionion, Karen Marie Moning could not make them better.

Well at first i wasn't sure I would like this book. I sounded a bit weird. The hero is a character in a virtual reality game that the heroine plays. Something goes wrong and she is suddenly in the game. Maggie, the heroine, is confused, and scared. She wants to go home and the hero Kered has a quest he must complete first before he can help her. They meet up with a friend of Kered's named Vad who has his own story in a later book. I liked this book but it took me a few days to read.

If you like a brave, strong, gutsy heroine and a hero you can't get enough of, then Virtual Heaven is what you need. The premise is fun and exciting, the land itself breathtakingly beautiful but harsh in its own way. The story is well-written and keeps you turning those pages. A good, solid read and one I highly recommend. Ann Lawrence, let's see a sequel...

This book is super! I loved everything about it. I think this book is so original because it is something that not many people could think up since it has a little bit of reality and some make believe too. I like the name Tolemac, because when you look at it closely you realize it is really Camelot. This book was great!

This was a great story, I was late for work because I needed to know what was happening with Maggie. I did not care for the blunt ending. Someone please tell me part two is coming. I would also like to know what happend to Derek's childhood friend that vanished, was it Val? Ms. Lawrence keep up the good work your story was great!