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Untamed Heart (2008)

by Ally Blue(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1605040274 (ISBN13: 9781605040271)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing

series

Untamed Heart

review 1: Okay, this was a heavier read than I was expecting but I loved it. How I could like Leon so much seeing as he's an assassin is a mystery but there you go. He was so patient and kind to Grim that I just couldn't help myself. We didn't see much of his life as an assassin, it's just what he was. Poor Grim living in the woods, a broken young man in need of some serious reconditioning. The things that boy went through....*shudders*. Well told with some lovely smexing including a bit a felching which for some reason I find freaking hawt!
review 2: Unrealistic characters, but I still really liked itWarning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 8/10PROS: - The story is touching: two damaged souls finding solace in each other. Grim is so... more giving emotionally (and sexually) he’s a little exhausting at times, and Leon is the epitome of gruff guy who finds what he wants and absolutely refuses to let it go once he has it.- A couple of the sex scenes are a little unemotional for my taste, but further into the story, the sex is lovely. Both partners are giving and tender toward the other, and I adored reading the scene in which Leon first kisses Grim.- There’s some wry, funny exposition from Leon’s point of view (the whole story is from his POV). He first thinks of Grim, for example, as a “whip-thin, none-too-clean Grizzly Adams Junior.”- I’m usually not a fan of “roughing it in the wilderness” stories, but the setting in this book varies enough that I found the wilderness scenes to be just enough: I got the point, and just about the time I started craving civilization again, the setting changed.- The ending is…a little too good to be true, actually, but hey, this is fiction, so on the whole I was more than happy to allow the guys a ridiculously joyous and wrapped-up conclusion.CONS: - The characters are far from lifelike. Leon’s an assassin who’s sweeter and more emotional than some of the queeniest guys I’ve met, and Grim is unrealistically streetwise considering how little experience he has with the civilized world.- Parts of the story are painful and difficult to read. I didn’t find them overwhelming, though, because most of the violence and emotional abuse occurs in flashbacks and isn’t too terribly detailed.Overall comments: Some of my favorite romances are those in which a guy (or girl) who’s been emotionally damaged in the past finally finds a person who treats him like the delicacy that we readers all know he is, and that’s certainly the case here. Is Leon, the assassin with a heart of gold, believable? No. Is he ridiculously and deliciously sweet? Yes. Good enough for me. less

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