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Summary: Gripping story, three-dimensional characters, a great read
Review: 'Lucifer Rising' has got it all: Characters with depth andedge; Plot with intriguing twists and turns; and Writing withbrilliant, real descriptions. Sharon Bower's greatest strength is her ability to weave a multi-layerered story around very real characters. Her prose is complex yet stark and often paints a picture full of rich details and interesting phrasing. She gives her characters very real and human qualities, whether that be the capacity to love or hate or both at the same time. These are not people who are simplistic or easily labeled as 'good' or 'bad'. What is intriguing about her two main characters is that they elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader: emphathy, frustration, admiration, confusion, happiness, sadness, and everything in between. Behind the backdrop of drug lords, violence, and journalistic opportunity, you find a developing relationship full of faltering trust, seductive desire, and ultimate discovery and redemption. It's a love story and so much more. I found myself amazingly engaged during this story and entirely interested in how it would turn out in the end. It's one of the better books I've read in a long time and I would definitely read whatever Ms. Bower's chose to write next. She's that good.
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Summary: Lucifer Rising
Review: A very sexy book! Lots of good story and plot twists and characters. A really fun read. I'm looking forward to a sequel. It's explicit but I wasn't at all offended. The scenes described seemed real and true.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I finished it weeks ago and I'm still shaking! It's been a long time since two characters had such an effect on me. I fell in love with Jude and Elizabeth within the first few pages and they have yet to let go of my heart. So vivid it's as if I've watched the movie. I know what my friends are getting for Christmas this year.Please Sharon, we need more!
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Summary: Excellent plot, good writing, and mostly realistic
Review: I loved this book! It drew me in from the first page. I love both of the main characters (Jude and Elizabeth), who seem well-matched. Both are given some depth and not made to seem like caricatures, which sometimes happens in Xena uber-fiction.
The only thing that didn't seem real was the reason Jude was so haunted. I don't want to spoil the book so suffice to say i don't think in real life someone would ever do what Jude Lucien chose to do at this turning point in her life.
Sex scenes were excellent, venues were varied. About the only way i would've improved it would be to worry less about the stylish clothing and cars (and this is a HUGE issue for me in MOST lesbian romances) and a little more about issues of substance. You can write an enjoyable book that doesn't preach, but still actually "says" something without Vera Wang dresses and SUVs.
Too bad Ms. Bower never wrote any other books in print and her website is now defunct. I think she showed promise.
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Summary: AN Amazing, breathtaking adventure
Review: I read it in one day...YES, ALL OF IT! I honestly couldn't put it down and that's not like me. I look forward to anything new that she might write. I want more suspence, adventure, love, sex.... JUST breathtaking! BUY IT!
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Summary: I could not put this one down.
Review: I took this novel on a fishing vacation and had a difficult time putting it down so I could get on with my fishing. That's some stiff competition. Full of rich characterizations, suspense, sex and danger. The main character's dark and dangerous personallity is not played down here. Her volatility lends a nerve racking edge to the action while you are just waiting for the next shoe to drop. The sex is realistic, beautifull and passionate. And there's plenty of it. These are not just your obligatory bedroom scenes that appear in so many other lesbian novels. I found the two main characters believable and I cared about what happened to them. A good read and worthy of your dollars.
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Summary: Spectacular edge-of-your-seat romance
Review: In her commercial debut Sharon Bowers brings us a RIVETING story set in the glamorous and often deadly underworld of Miami - a world in which wealth, and seductive pleasures exist side by side with violence and death. It is into this very world reporter Liz Gardener finds herself stepping into as she pursues a story that has obsessed her for years now - the sordid tale surrounding a dark, beautiful and deadly ex-DEA agent by the name of Jude Lucien who having gone over to the other side is now one of the most powerful and feared drug lords in the business. With very different agendas, these two women will find themselves drawn to one another - sensing something very real in the other - sensing perhaps that neither is quite what she seems... This story is a WILD ride that will simply take your breath away as lies are told and hearts broken in the desperate struggle of two souls to persevere - struggling valiantly against the inner darkness threatening to destroy their love and the human foes determined never to give it a chance. Sharon's two heroines are beautifully depicted with incredible depth, rich emotional histories and engaging personalities. This is a FASCINATING, solidly crafted tale with a very contemporary feel to it and a well-paced blend of action and drama. It receives my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!
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Summary: Intense, sexy, fast-paced, and so eloquently written....
Review: It reignited my passion for dark, sexy, espionage stories... the characters are delicious, the action is hot and heavy, and above all, the excellent writing allows effortless navigation through the intricate plot twists... do a friend a favour... give them a copy as a gift...
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Summary: How deep is too deep?
Review: Jude Lucien is a drug dealer who is dark and merciless. Jude has to be to live and work in the jungle of Miami's underworld. Liz Gardener, a reporter, who starts out trying to learn more about Jude ends up falling in love with the drug dealer. Liz wants to save Jude, but this Dark Angel might be too far gone, too deep into the nightmare of her past deeds to ever rise out of the hell that is her present life. Will Liz be able to pull Jude out of the darkness which is made up of Jude's own guilt and rage or will the Dark Angel's untrusting nature get them both killed?
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Summary: What a sizzling, erotic thriller!
Review: Jude Lucien is every girl's wet dream: tall, dark, and gorgeously attired in black leather. Oh, and just happens to be packing under all that leather -- a Sig Sauer automatic, to be exact. The brooding, troubled drug dealer has it all -- money, women at her beck and call, and a rising empire of illicit activity. But nothing could have prepared her for the entrance of Elizabeth Gardner, the honey-haired investigative reporter bent on discovering the true story about Jude's rise, and subsequent fall, from the DEA. When Elizabeth sets Jude up, she isn't prepared for a fall of her own -- right smack dab in love with the troubled drug lord and the violent world in which she lives. As their lives become more intertwined, Jude and Liz find that neither is what the other expects -- a revelation that could prove disasterous for them both. Lucifer Rising is a must-read, erotic sizzler guaranteed to heat up the night! Don't miss it!
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