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Raintree: Inferno / Sanctuary / Haunted (2008)

by Linda Howard(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0373773420 (ISBN13: 9780373773428)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HQN Books

review 1: Since this book is a compilation of three, I guess I should put my thoughts about all three books.I didn't care for INFERNO. I couldn't get into the characters and I honestly couldn't see how they were able to fall in love given the circumstances. HAUNTED was better. I could relate to the characters and there was enough of story to keep me interested without sounding unbelievable. SANCTUARY is by far the best. The relationship between the main characters was strong and believable. I was able to relate to the characters. Also, the final battle scene was awesome. Albeit, a bit like a deus ex machina, but ultimately, I really liked it.
review 2: This was interesting - it was very clearly written by three different authors. I liked the first "book" very much - the... more second book was ok - the third, well, I wish one of the other 2 authors had written it. If you reduced to only 3 or 4 - the number of times one of the main characters thought the same thing (Mercy - "oh, he's terrible, he's evil, he is the enemy, but I love him.... blah blah blah, over and over, and over again), the last book would have ben 1/4 the size it was. Plus, the bad guy (Judah) - well, where did his turn of affections come from? He was evil and hated and the enemy, and then all of a sudden, without any motivation whatsoever, he simply changes sides? Please, given that the 3rd author clearly didn't have enough to write about - she should have explored things from his perspective and given us a reason to believe his change of heart. And she tied up some of the loose ends in such a cavalier manner that it almost wasn't worth it (I mean, really, Lorna somehow knows about Hope - when we clearly didn't get any of that connection in book one - enough so that she picks up the phone and tells Hope - "you don't know me, but we need to save Dante and Gideon and I will be there to pick you up shortly" How did that come to pass?). The further into this book I got, the more I wanted to put it down. The only thing that kept me reading to the end was that wiki didn't have a page summarizing what happened to the characters I really liked from book 1 (dante and Lorna) and 2 (Gideon). It had so much potential - getting to see the same timeline three different times could have been so cool. Instead, the third book was a total let down. I have seen reviews of Beverly Barton's other stuff - but if this was characteristic, then I think I will likely stay away from her other stuff. Linda Howard and Linda Winstead Jones, I will take a gander at some of their other stuff. Bottom line for me - this was at best worthy of borrowing from a library. Definitely not worth what I paid to Borders. less

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