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Reading Between The Lines (2007)

by Lauren Dane(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1599988348 (ISBN13: 9781599988344)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Samhain Publishing

review 1: As much as I adore Lauren Dane's books, I've got some issues with this one.The cover. It's nondescript. It says "contemporary," not "contains Celtic lore, immortals, magic and action."The "back cover copy." It's not exciting. I cannot tell you how many times I read it and thought "meh, not now." And Lauren Dane is an auto-buy for me!The hot sexxoring. I like hot sexxoring as much as the next reader, but I gotta say, this story would have been better with a lot less of it. It interfered with the story, made what would have been a 4 star read lose a star. It's not a good thing when my reaction to an impending sex scene is "sigh. Must they really?"(And yes, I'm sleep-deprived and feeling cranky. That's why I'm so candid.)That said. I like the story. Celtic lore, action, a hei... morenous villain(ess). What's *not* to like?
review 2: You know how the old cliché warns you not to judge a book by its cover? Well, I have never found a better example than this book. The cover art and the title seem bland and have nothing at all to do with the story inside. This turns out to be a great thing, because the story is wonderful!Twenty-five year old Haley O'Brian is an American working for an Irish historic/anthropology foundation. Her current project is studying one of the many stone circles which can be found all over Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. It is here that she comes across a scroll that she needs to translate. Conall macCormac is a hunky Faerie who has been lurking in the wings for nine hundred years waiting for the right person to translate and read the scroll, releasing him from a curse placed on him be Ninane, a power hungry ex-fling. Slightly implausibly, but necessary none-the-less, Haley learns that she is actually a half-Faerie and of age to receive her induction into the Fae world. (Dane actually does a much better job with explaining this. Don't judge on my half-assed summary.) Predictably, Haley and Conall fall in a passionate love with each other and he makes her his wife. Together, they must defeat the evil Ninane who after learning of Conall's release from her curse, decides to seek vengeance.While the hot-magic-Faerie-sex is well done, the story itself is engaging and beautifully written. Without giving too much away, I will just say that I at times the story was playful and light-hearted and at others heartbreakingly sorrowful. Dane is a great writer and is able to create a world so different, yet strikingly similar to our own. (The pubs in the Faerie hill serve Guinness. They could make their own brew, but they figure why do so when the perfection of Guinness exists.) The sex scenes were hot & steamy in all of the right ways. I would have liked to see a little more build up in the chemistry before they fell into bed together (They were ripping each other's clothes off by page 25.), but as the novel moved on, the love between this couple was believable. Perhaps was not quite as believable was Haley's acceptance of her Fae heritage and her new life in the hill. She seemed to roll with the punches a little too easily. She did fight to hold on to certain remnants of the outside world, but I would have liked more insight into her thoughts. Overall I give Reading Between the Lines...Interpretation of Faerie lore - 3 1/2 bookmarksHot-Magic-Faerie-Sex - 12 bookmarks! (I mean, what's not to like?)Character Development - 2 bookmarksLiterary Merit - 3 1/2 bookmarksPlot - 4 bookmarksCover Art - 0 bookmarks (Although the author probably did not have much to do with that.)Dream Cast (otherwise known as who I pictured while reading) - Jacinda Barrett (Haley), Orlando Bloom (Conall), Lara Flynn Boyle (Ninane)Would I recommend it? Sure, but only to right person. It is definitely NC-17 (as it should be for an Erotic Romance), and I'd never recommend it to my mother (again a bonus for the genre). less

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