Review: The Lyon
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
This book definitely has heat to it, the scenes were hot and kinky, but here's why I gave this three stars which is so not my norm per reviews. Kat comes across as a girl who has withdrawn from the world to deal with her ordeal, she moved back home to live with her father, but underneath all her baggy attire she is one tough girl, she is introduced to Colton via her best friend Jared, now Colton is one naughty, possessive, over the top intense alpha male, who reluctantly gives her a job at his motorcycle shop, he showed no interest in her until he gets to see the real Kat and then became obsessed to claim her in all ways as his girl. I felt Colton's character was overbearing and suffocating. The Kat we first read about who bites back just withdrew even further in the book. I like my female leads to have some fighter spirit in them and for the guy to know that the woman won't put up with their crap in the relationship, for me Kat just agreed to everything in the end Colton said and did, she just had no backbone and annoyed the hell out of me, so much that I lost interest half way reading this book and needed to pick up another read to get my fix of tough and inspiring female leads. I understand that Kat needed someone to look out for her and she was young, but the way Colton took complete control of her life and her body when they hardly knew each other, also when she was still healing was just too much for me. I did not find the age gap appealing which seems to be the author's norm for her novels. Colton was too tough on an immature childlike Kat. I couldn't get my head around Kat losing her v card and getting body piercings on the same night, seriously give the girl a break! Colton just came across as selfish and controlling of what he wanted to do to her body. This book just had too much sex in it, I'm not a prude as I luv a good hot possessive alpha male and Colton's words will make you melt, the problem with this trilogy was that it did not have enough of a storyline, every page I read seemed to be them going at it again, which just had me wanting to douse myself in water to understand why the hell I was still reading it, I didn't hate it as I did enjoy it, but was just left disappointed as this book could have had so much potential to be better, as I was expecting it to be a sweet romance story, instead I felt the storyline was filled with sex scenes and more sex scenes based on two lead characters who worked together and lived together, I couldn't breathe! Colton should have let Kat grow and become independent instead of making her reliable on him and trust in her own decisions and have her own life, attend college, less sex scenes and more character development. For me this failed on anything inspiring, it made me hot and bothered but then that was soon put out as there was just too much of the same thing, overall it's a good kinky book, but just don't expect to see a female lead who can stand her own ground with her man and leave you smiling.