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Fearless Leader (2000)

by Tricia Owens(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

series

Juxtapose City

review 1: Wow. I just... wow.First off, this is not a romance. There are romantic interests, i.e., everyone wants Black and he doesn't know what he wants, but no single romance that you can root for despite what the blurb says. Everyone is flawed, severely so. No one is all good, although there are people who are all bad. In fact, I couldn't stand many of the sympathetic characters at one point or another. But the people are complex and interesting and distinct individuals. My heart breaks for Black. I just want to hold him tightly until he can let his guard down for just a minute. There are a lot of questions left answered here. There is kind of a cliffhanger, but not exactly--more like this is an episode in a serial that doesn't necessarily have a plot. I must read the next one ri... moreght now. But I think you could feel satisfied reading just this one and not feeling the need to read the second in the series immediately. Maybe.The book was dark, and brutal, and nasty. There is intensity in everything, suspense and fear and horror on almost every page. It's not a pleasant book at all. There are some horrible things done that should make me want to hate almost all of the characters, but somehow, I forgave them because I understood them. That takes skill. The story took me a few minutes to get into but once I had, I was hooked and couldn't put it down. I finished it at a bar between rounds of the trivia game we were competing in. I know I'm not really telling you anything here, but I don't know what to tell without giving anything away. And really, the book was about emotion and power plays and pain, and how do I describe that? I will say a few things that I didn't like: I hate the term "flesh-toned" since that could be anything from pale pink too extremely dark brown. It's almost always used to mean light beige, though, and that is appalling. Out of the blue, the story began same-page head jumping which I hate. I really hate love triangles and this was a quadrangle. An electric motorcycle would not have exhaust pipes to burn you, and a laser gun would not give the same results as a projectile weapon for testing purposes. Duh, recoil?I'm off to buy the next one right now and I don't care if it fits in any challenges I'm part of. I have to read it.
review 2: Who's ready for more of Lt. Black and Calyx Starr? This girl!! I love..dare I say need a complex character in my literary escapes and Tricia Owens has done a lovely job here of making sure this world is chock-full of them! I want to know more about all..er, most of these guys…and where they've come from..how that's shaped who they are as I meet them. Once I think I have them pegged, they show me a new side [of themselves]. The world she's created is a little dark..but intriguingly so……I kind of a want a little more depth to the world itself, which is why the 3 stars, but if you're into a tiny bit of the non-fairy tale and like your hot guys a little broken (I mean, we've all got something!) --check it out! less

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