Review: Love, love, love this series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2011
4.5 Stars!Warning Will Robinson, once you start reading, you will forget all other things to do and stay up into the early hours of the morning reading this book!Okay, another warning - there are spoilers in this review, so stop reading if you don't want details revealed.My hat is off to the author of this book.  She creates a fascinating world and characters whom you will fall in love with.  We all want a Kindred man in our life!I'm usually not one for the sci-fi and admittedly am a closet paranormal romance person, but this is perhaps the most addictive, heart sighing book I have ever read (and reread).  I love how the author has come up with a male who cherishes women because they are rare in their race, yet isn't a wuss and even displays animal like behavior (marking, scenting which actually made a lot of sense).  The heroine is strong, smart and comes out with some great lines.I do have some minor gripes:- the seduction scene at the end where Liv is trying to wake Baird up from his coma.  I realize she's desperate to awaken him, but it came across as clumsy.  Felt the scene would have read better if she had taken him to the bathing room where they had many, ahem, personal encounters and in the process of bathing him, he started waking up.  Plus when she dons lingerie later to get him to complete the bond, it just didn't make sense to me - he just fooled around with her without clothes a minute ago, so somehow the lingerie tease didn't seem like it would work.- not a prude, but the use of some of the same crude language (P and F words) constantly takes away from the romanticism.  It does make sense to use them, but wish they had been used more sparingly so that when used, their effect is there otherwise, too much just makes the characters seem like louts- we keep reading about how tall the Kindred are, yet the cover illustration (and the covers for succeeding books as well) keep showing guys that seem to be Earthmen height.- It seemed out of character for Baird not to have gone into a rage when he found Liv surrounded by unmated males.  When you think of his behavior when he claimed her down on Earth (very aggressive) it seems like it would make sense for him to have gone berserk.  Also, I understood he was reluctant to mark Liv in public, but didn't like how far he had to go in order to do so - it somehow felt out of character (he talks earlier about cherishing her).  I think the author should have just shown a fight scene and thus demonstrated to the reader how strong a Kindred in rage can be.None of the above of course prevented  me from immediately going to the next book in the series!