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The Lightning Charmer (2013)

by Kathryn Magendie(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1611943647 (ISBN13: 9781611943641)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bell Bridge Books

review 1: This was a Kindle Daily Deal and it had pretty good ratings and a description that sounded like it would be good, so I gave it a try. Hmm. A group of Native Americans has the power to harness lightning? I can get into that. A girl stumbled upon one of their ancient rituals in the woods and was bound to a young native boy by his great grandfather, the leader of the tribe? Sure! Why not? I realize now that in addition to being filed under fiction/fantasy/magical realism, it should have also been in the romance category, which I know I don't like and usually try to avoid.I did not enjoy this author's writing style. The story could have been very entertaining, but I found Laura's internal dialogue to be distracting. For example, on three separate occasions, she thinks to herse... morelf "la la la la." "I don't care. I don't care. La, la, la, la." "One more week at Bryan's to go, and she'd hike up again -- no reason, just for the hike, la la la la." "'Saturday? Let me check.' La la la, la la la, sip, sip. 'Yes, my calendar seems to be free that day.'" She also repeated phrases. A lot. Who talks like this? She comes off as sort of a ditz and I can't figure out why the guys in the story want to be with her.The other thing that really annoyed me is that I don't like reading books with a ton of sex. It seemed like every other page had her going on about how the scar on her back was tingling and burning and how she wanted wanted wanted to feel the pleasure and pain pleasure and pain pleasure and pain! and nobody could fulfill her. So she just decides to run into a clearing in the woods and strip down naked and go to town on herself while imagining being with the mysterious forest man. Uh, right. I feel that the author must have read a book about plant symbolism that she found fascinating and wanted to somehow incorporate this into her book, so she had the neighbor, Betty, constantly talk about the meaning of plants. "Differing plants mean differing things. That one I gave you, like I said, means good cheer and friendship. Orange would be luck and money. Don't get a mock-orange, because that means deceit! Knotweed means health -- you aren't sick, are you?..."Anyway, the book seemed like it had potential but it disappointingly turned out not to suit my taste at all.
review 2: Sorry, sorry, sorry. Strange, strange, strange. When an author cannot express her character's emotion in any other way than repeating the same word over and over - usually 3 times - is 3 times the charm? - then it is time for the author to increase her vocabulary a bit I think. The book is not well written and is poorly edited and is rambling and confusing and contains inconsistencies. I received it free to review from Netgalley. I am giving it a two star review rather than a one star because there is a bit of a plot in there somewhere trying to be found and I was able to actually finish the book although I did want to just give up on it for a while because parts of it are so bad. I don't recommend this book. less

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