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Shanna
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I know I am the minority but this was not a GREAT book and had a really hard time even finishing. The only reason I stuck with this book was because of all the great reviews and I kept hoping I would find the wonderment that so many others have felt while reading this book.
I found the plot kept repeating itself only in different locations. Shanna would be mean to Ruark then fall into bed with him, then swear she was done with him, then do it again and again. For me the prose was too flowery. I had to scan many paragraphs of descriptions to get to the plot. By the time I started enjoying the book there were only 100 pages left and that even dragged on. I think this would have been a wonderful story if it was half the size and involved more of his family!
Ruark was the only reason to continue reading the book and I was happy for his HEA but wonder what he found so attractive in Shanna besides her outward appearance. Yes by the end of the book (after almost a year has lapsed) she did change, but was that because she had no other choice due to the fact she was preggers? So what was there in her that kept a man like Ruark so in love with her for so long and so willing to do such demeaning things (i.e. being a bondslave)? I felt for most of the book Shanna was a selfish, spoiled brat that needed a kick in the butt! Aaargg.
I found the plot kept repeating itself only in different locations. Shanna would be mean to Ruark then fall into bed with him, then swear she was done with him, then do it again and again. For me the prose was too flowery. I had to scan many paragraphs of descriptions to get to the plot. By the time I started enjoying the book there were only 100 pages left and that even dragged on. I think this would have been a wonderful story if it was half the size and involved more of his family!
Ruark was the only reason to continue reading the book and I was happy for his HEA but wonder what he found so attractive in Shanna besides her outward appearance. Yes by the end of the book (after almost a year has lapsed) she did change, but was that because she had no other choice due to the fact she was preggers? So what was there in her that kept a man like Ruark so in love with her for so long and so willing to do such demeaning things (i.e. being a bondslave)? I felt for most of the book Shanna was a selfish, spoiled brat that needed a kick in the butt! Aaargg.
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Reading Progress
July 4, 2010
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Started Reading
July 4, 2010
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July 20, 2010
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13.24%
"I am having a hard time with Shanna's character-so I have set this aside for now! I hope when I return to it I will feel more inspired."
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89
October 12, 2010
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53.27%
"I feel like this book is sucking the life out of me!! Shanna really needs to grow up!!"
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358
October 13, 2010
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92.86%
"Finally!! I am starting to enjoy this story! It seems it took an awful long time."
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624
October 13, 2010
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Finished Reading
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Aug 30, 2010 07:18PM
Hey, I know what you mean. I felt the same way but give her a chance. I promise she redeems herself and you'll be pulled into the story. Kathleen E. Woodiwiss is and was my favorite romance novelist. The Flame and the Flower was the very first romance novel I ever read and is still my favorite to this day.
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Kinda like this modern romance of Sylvia Day's heroine, Eva. but I loved Shanna because I knew she HAD to change to keep Ruark but then in real life, men marry the spoiled bitches... then beats them up or kills them...
