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Desire Untamed (2009)

by Pamela Palmer(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

006166751X (ISBN13: 9780061667510)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Avon

series

Feral Warriors

review 1: I have no idea where to start with this recap. It was like the story WANTED to have the same feel as other awesome paranormal series but it just fell short. It was slow in the beginning and kinda dull. I figured out who the bad guys were by like chapter 3. I didn't hate this story but it definitely wasn't love. The sexual nature of the Radiant's position was just ridiculously unbelievable. Almost as bad as Anita Blake's need to save the world with a BJ ridiculous.No mention on how or why this one chick aka the Radiant feeds her people. No answer to why this chick was raised as a human. it's like information was just tossed out there to cause a problem or get us from point A to point B then it was forgotten and never answered or thought of again. I may listen to the next bo... moreok if I have nothing else better to do but other wise I think I'll be done with this.Story - 1.5Narrator - 2.25the narrator was ok, his cadence was really off at times and his chick voice wasn't very girly at all. At times the boring story and his droning on put me in a daze and I checked out.
review 2: **2.5 stars**I confess I somehow enjoyed this train wreck. Kara has lived all her life without wondering why she never gets sick and why she heals miraculously fast from every injury. Until one day, a man shows up at her house, tries to kidnap her while her mother is dying because she’s his ‘radiant’. According to Lyon the kidnapper, she’s not human but a Therian, and her people need her. After her mother dies and some convenient demons show up to bolster Lyon’s claim, Kara decides to leave the town she’s lived all her life to go to this stranger’s lair, where she finds 8 other big, not very friendly men.Even though she’s supposedly this very important person in their race, none of them make absolutely any effort to make her feel at home. They know she was brought up human and that she doesn’t have a clue about any of thier rituals, their culture, their lifestyle, etc. but they expect her to acclimate instantaneously to their creepy touching or to the fact that hey! they are shapeshifters. They don't take the time to introduce her to their world slowly, but wait until she discovers things on her own and then are outraged when the poor woman freaks out because of the bird woman housekeeper (don’t ask) or when she learns she’s supposed to tongue kiss 9 men to discover who’s her mate.Lyon, for all his ‘chiefness’, is pretty clueless. At the beginning of the book, they mistakenly use the wrong knife in a ritual (which could have pretty dire consequences) and he never investigates how that came about or wonder if something’s going on. When Kara starts freaking out for no apparent reason, he just thinks she’s losing it and again, doesn’t investigate even though half his men are acting weird. It takes the poor woman’s repeated insistence that’s something is going on for him to start wondering if indeed that’s the case. He’s 700-years old but he acts like this is his first time at the rodeo, with not a clue about what kinds of weapons his enemies might be using.I don’t think I’ve ever read about a heroine that got hurt as much as this one in just a few days. She got bitten, stabbed, attacked by demons, terrorized by unseen forces, subjected to painful magic rituals, kidnapped twice, her throat sliced and threatened by those who were supposedly guarding her (I think I forgotten something.) She was also the most orgasmic heroine I’ve read about (and remember that I read erotica). Her first orgasm occurs with Lyon is licking the wounds in her hands (that’s how he heals). She routinely orgasms while he kisses her and when they first make love, she comes around 15 times. Remember that the action in this book occurs in less than a week so this woman was either having an orgasm or getting hurt (emotionally or physically.) I listened this in audio so I was spared the horrendous spelling of the names. Rob Shapiro, the narrator, has great male voices, just like how I like them. Raw and masculine, he really captured the feral nature of these men. Mr. Shapiro sometimes got a little too dreamy while doing the narrator parts but speeding up the narration really helped. I’m definitely listening more books by him.Overall, I was either appalled or rolling my eyes at the shenanigans in this book but there was something about it I liked. I already have book number 2 in the wings, so I’ll keep listening while I can get them from the library. less

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