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Soul Hunger (2000)

by Marisa Chenery(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Ra's Chosen

review 1: Good easy read... Characters were ok and seemed to care about each other but I got annoyed by the repeat in the story line. They would come together, he would get scared and run over and over again without any real changes in the situation. I also thought the story was forced with solutions that just magically fixed everything while the charaters did little or nothing to help themselves. Overall worth reading once, but I would love to see the story developed more in upcoming books.
review 2: I'll give this 3.5 stars. This is my first for Chenery and I can say that I both loved it and was a little disappointed. Mehen is an Egyptian warrior to the Egyptian god, Ra. I thought this made for an excellent story line because, lets face it, you don't read much about Eg... moreyptian anything in the romance category. Or, at least I don't. Mehen is the leader of his band of brothers and together they fight the undead who threaten mortals. All of the men have lived their immortal lives accepting that they will forever be alone. They are not vampires, but the feed on humans as a basis for survival...and that's about as far as the connection goes. Mehen doesn't know it, but he is about to have his world turned upside down. Blythe is a woman scored. After a wicked divorce leaves her practically destitute, she is working a job she hates just to survive the legal fees. She lives in what I would describe as an efficiency apartment, and considering what she started from, it's a real shame. After leaving work late one evening, she finds herself facing a small group of undead. And like any good romance, Mehen The Delectable Warrior, swoops in to save the day. My issues with the story started pretty early on. The first being language. This is what I can only describe as a romance attempting to masquerade as erotica...and failing miserably. It was chalk full of sex, which was fine. Most of it was well written, just poorly executed. Example: At one point while they are in the shower making love, Mehen uses one hand to lift her, then starts kissing down her neck. The next sentence just jumps into "And the other (hand)lifted..." etc. That wasn't the first time I had to reread and piece together what the author was trying to tell me. The biggest oopsie was during a scene with the rest of the brothers. They were sitting down to a talk and I turn the page and...it's missing! Poof! I have not idea what was said and never will. I read on anyway because the story isn't completely unfortunate and had plenty of enjoyable moments and redeeming qualities. It isn't poorly written despite its obvious flaws,and I honestly enjoyed the better half of it. I can say that I liked Mehen, but he was like a woman P.M.S.ing constantly and always "cramping" due to his blood hunger. I swear if I could have I would have forced him to down a bottle of Midol so I didn't have to suffer through another one of his mopey sessions of "I have cramps and I'm starving but I refuse to feed because (insert lame excuse here)." Truth be told, I will go on to read others in this series because they hold promise. I actually felt more of a connection with the other brothers, namely Takan, who all seemed more developed than Mehen. Overall, if you can get past the technical difficulties, it's worth the read. less

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