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The Mercenary's Tale (2008)

by Lynn Lorenz(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Romance

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Loose ID

series

In the Company of Men

review 1: He called his horse, Horse. I knew in that instant that Drake would become dear to me and, he is. Hahaha! Overall, I would recommend this tale to everyone who fancies this genre. I usually prefer my stories to have some heat in them but this was... HOTTTT! I hold no doubt that I had smoke coming outta my ears until the last chapter. The children were wonderful additions. They give the reader a view(and good reason) to love the heroes as dad's and not just as romantic interests. The story was interesting enough and the way the characters are molded makes you like each one of them for their own very distinct merits. On to less hearty matters, it is not to say that I did not find some aspects of this lacking so, in this my new resolve to be more organized and consistent in m... morey reviews, let the bullet points commence:- It was largely Drake's POV. No background, thoughts or hints about Ansel. Nadah. It was a bit better for Logan, at least we could get a glimpse to some of his thoughts but not much else.- Hold your horses! Some important events felt so rushed and hanging. No buildup and not much tension specially in the 2nd half of the book. Ansel and Drake went from hidden attraction/friendship to lovers faster than Drake can pull his sword.I'll not judge too much more on this because I know that there is yet more books in the series and that our heroes here may feature again in some of them, I hope, and I may change my mind on a few things. :D
review 2: I’m sorry to say I can’t recommend itWarning: This review contains a SPOILER. The SPOILER is hinted at in the book’s blurb and is stated outright in other reviews, but I’m still warning readers in case they haven’t read those things. I’m including the SPOILER in my review because it’s the sort of thing I wish I had known before reading the story. It upset me, and I wouldn’t have read the book if I’d known about it.Rating: 4/10PROS: - The sex scenes are plentiful and graphic. Lorenz obviously enjoys writing the erotic parts of her erotic novels. (Possible slight SPOILER here: two sex scenes contain a female participant.)- Drake’s fatalistic attitude is both sad and amusing at times. - There’s a sweet sense of family at the story’s close. Few of the characters are biologically related, but they all sort of adopt one another informally, and I liked that.CONS:- There are situations throughout that I found contrived, particularly given the story’s historical setting. The two main characters are repeatedly finding ways in which to engage in physical contact with each other. This builds sexual tension, sure, but some of their actions seemed rather far-fetched to me.- The writing is very clumsy and/or simplistic at times (example: “Ansel placed one knee on the ledge and spread himself to me. That was the moment I decided I was going to [you know what] him”…and I’m thinking, “No. Really?”). And some plot points are left trailing off at the end, never resolved.- (WARNING: SPOILER to follow…) SPOILER SPOILER SPOILEROne of the main characters dies about 40% of the way through. The other man goes on to find love with someone else, so technically everything ends well, but I was NOT amused to discover that one of the men I had spent nearly half of the story getting to know dies.Overall comments: Looking at this objectively, I admit it’s not a terrible story. I just didn’t like it. There are a couple of issues in it that I think will bother some readers (specifically, m/f sex scenes and the spoiler mentioned above). In spite of those, though, it’s not a bad adventure story; I just prefer books that go deeper into the characters’ emotions than this one does. I felt as though the author were trying to write a bit of an epic, following one man’s journey through a fairly extended period of his life, but the story simply doesn’t explore its subject deeply enough. less

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