Review: Pathetically weak...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
I hate to be the messenger of a negative review...HATE IT.  And I feel I'm being extremely generous with giving this final installment of theOrion the Hunter: The Complete Anthology2★'s...in my humble reviewers opinion, it deserves much less.  This tediously weak plot had so much potential - - but it was written (almost) entirely in narrative...what limited dialogue there was, is ridiculously cheesy at best...so cheesy and sappy that serious "dum-dum-duuuuuum" moments made me laugh out loud.  It forces me to wonder just how old this author is anyway.  13 maybe?  It was almost like viewing a poorly scripted amateurish High School stage play that's supposed to be serious in nature, but is humorous due to a poor script and adolescent acting.  It was agony to finish, muddling through extremely weak scenes that made little sense as the author set's them up with tedious, inane, descriptive narration that lacked good, informed descriptive detail at all.  Almost as if she's simply filling space with.....nothing.  So many times I sat here wondering "what's this got to do with anything"?  But I'm proud to say I did, in fact, finish this story as it wouldn't be fair to write a review on limited knowledge.First and foremost, this 4th installment can not stand on it's own.  The previous 3 installmentsThe Hunter (Orion the Hunter Part One),The Hunted (Orion the Hunter Part Two)andHunting Lust (Orion the Hunter Part Three)must be read in order to understand the sequence of events that follow....and this entire 4th installment could have easily been adapted into the 3rd or even the 2nd installment, narrowing down purchasing price.  But that's a whole different issue and I digress.Issy Prince and Lucas Hunter are now an estranged couple who quickly kiss and make up and are soon back on the road to relationship bliss.  Misunderstandings are revealed and all's well as they work through their trust issues with a little, pathetically weak blackmail drama on the side.  I've always loved Lucas' reclusive and controlled, commanding mysteriousness...but he's now lost that dark persona (in this installment).  He's no longer comes across as the strong personality that we read in the first 3 installments but rather has now become a love sick, groveling puppy.  I guess love will do that to ya, but it seems like he'd retain at least a small portion of his intimidating, darker, macho "Dom" persona too.  But even the Dom side of him is tamer now - - and the way this author describes his temper outbursts is too laughable to be taken serious.I so loved the deliciously delectable first 3 installments of this ORION THE HUNTER series.  I love the erotic side to the story...it just wasn't enough in this final book.  This poor attempt of a final installment simply fell flat.