Review: Not at all what I expect from Dohner
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 16, 2014
I never thought I would give anything written by Laurann Dohner a bad review. She is one of my favorite romance writers, and I love her New Species series. The first Zorn Warriors book was pretty good, and more in keeping with her usual tone. This second installment failed on so many levels for me. I couldn't develop any liking for the hero, mostly because throughout the book he continually took away the heroine's choices. While he repeatedly tells the heroine that she's his world and he'd do anything to keep her, he never once considers what SHE wants or how she feels about being kidnapped and forced into a lifestyle she didn't choose for herself.What's more, there's no "a-ha" moment when he realizes HIS happiness is not necessarily the key to HER being happy too. I kept waiting for him to redeem himself but it just never happened.And the heroine seemed weak to me because even though she didn't shy away from physical confrontation, she never really tells him "NO." That subtext of "her lips say no but her eyes say yes" played here ad nauseum. Her protests were pretty weak and insincere, which makes her either totally spineless or the kind of woman who says one thing, means another and expects the guy to know what she wants without her really saying so.Don't get me wrong, I'll never give up reading Laurann. This book, however, will definitely be on my "don't need to read THAT again" list.