Review: Could have done with a better female character
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2011
Single sentence summary: Amber hates her uncle but has no where else to go and when he sets a trap for the nearest clan, she knows she must warn them and it looks like she might make it in time until she is capture and taken hostage.I really enjoyed this in part and other parts just bothered me. Amber is a young women who knows how to use her feminine wiles to get men to do what she wants - which was part of my problem with this book. Amber is suppose to have lived a sort of protected life until her parents die and then she has nowhere to go except to her uncles. Amber, the reader is told is a virgin. I have a hard time buying into that background and believing that she can fool men enough to get naked for her. She is unfamiliar with passion but can pretend enough to know about it to get men to behave differently then they normally would? I just don't know if I believe that completely. It bugged me.I enjoyed almost everything else about this book. My other problem is the deception Amber uses at one part. I found that the main character was a sheltered young women without any values. She deceives a man in a horrible way and it takes her way to long to fess up to her crime. It was aggravating.When the main character wasn't driving me crazy, I really liked the story and the other characters. Krayne, the love interest, seems like a guy concerned with his family and keeping his people safe. He is complex and sexy. No matter how good the sexual tension was between him and Amber, I didn't like that it was her. Krayne is also constantly chasing Amber as she tries to escape at every chance but since he needs her to get his cousin back, she can't leave.I ended up being so-so about this historical romance. I liked many of the characters and some of the crazy situations Amber gets herself into, but I didn't really care for her character otherwise. She didn't make much sense to me. 3 Stars.