Hot Blooded

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Summary: HOT BLOODED
Review: HI,
I AM A DIE HARD HORROR FAN AND I JUST HAVE TO SAY OH YEAH BABY!!
THE COLLECTION WAS GREAT AND 4 DIFFERENT STORIES KEPT ME READING INTO THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT I AM A SUCKER FOR A LOVE STORY AND DARK HUNGER JUST MADE ME DROOL!!!THANK YOU LADIES
FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HORROR LOVING HEART ...
11/08/04

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Summary: Gravely Disappointed
Review: From reading the online reviews, I purchased this abysmal failure. I own every Christine Feehan book she has written, however, her short story is not enough to purchase this horrible book. Awaiting Moonrise was fair, quite predictable. The Night Owl left me disgusted and repulsed by the so called love scenes. In Seduction's Gift, Ms. Knight used too many crude and vulgar terminologies for my taste. This is not erotica, it is crude and obscene. I would be embarrassed to give it to anyone. Hot Blooded left me cold.

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Summary: Hot Blooded is a KEEPER!
Review: Hot Blooded was great! I loved Angela Knight's "Seduction's Gift" the best! I love Angela's new Mageverse idea! Very different and a very original idea! Lancelot can gift me any ole' time he wants. The next best was Christine Feehan's "Dark Hunger." I liked that this time the female character in Feehan's book was strong and could protect those she loved and could fight. I also liked that her Carpathian had brothers that needed mates too! Yum! More books with more goregous men in them! Maggie Shayne's and Emma Holly's stories were excellent as well. This book is definitely worth the money. I bought it in hard cover as well as paperback. This one goes on my KEEPER SHELF!

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Summary: Way to go, Angela!!!
Review: I bought this book for Angela Knight's story and I LOVED it!! Lancelot is a hero to die for!!! I can't wait for the rest of the Knights of the Round Table. Nobody can write a vampire like Angela!!
I also enjoyed Emma Holly and Maggie Shayne's contribution to this anthology. I've never been a Christine Feehan fan!

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Summary: Not my cup of tea
Review: I couldn't even bring myself to finish each story. Its just the same ol...vampire meets human or wereanimal story with lots of sex in between. No really good story. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: Really poor, neither heat, nor storyline
Review: I have to say that I have been sick of the Carpathians for the last 6 or so novels, but making the hero fall in love with a shapeshifting leopard woman smacks of desperation on the author's part.  Feehan's love scenes are so repetitive and her heroes and heroines so one-note, it is a wonder she can manage to write novel length fiction. Even this short story was more than enough.

I enjoyed "Awaiting Moonrise" even though it was really predictable. I mean, you could have figured out from the moment the wolf appeared what was going to happen. And does every romantic suspense or paranormal romance really have to be set in New Orleans? It must really do wonders for the tourist trade down there (NOT!) Still, the offering is pretty feeble for someone of Ms Shayne's pedigree in the genre. The hero could have been any other guy if not for his werewolf tendencies, and was not the least bit scarily sexy.

"The Night Owl" is another feeble effort from Emma Holly to try to move into mainstream romance when all she is really good at is writing erotica. A toned down Bastien and Emile from her last Hunting book was a real let down for me-Bastian had as much depth as a puddle in this book compared to his villainy in the previous novel. He had real potential, and the best she could come up with for him was this short novella?

In addition, Holly's books suffer from the same problem as Feehan's-they can't write about their supposed supernatural world without the irritating declamatory style of "Me, Upyr (or Carpathian), you Lifemate, so you follow orders, this is the way we do things."

They need to learn to weave their world into the action, not deliver it in huge chunks of dialogue which tell, and do not show.

Seduction's Gift was the best of the four, but that is not saying much, since the idea of all of the knights of King Arthur's roundtable being vampires is just ridiculous. However, the interaction between the characters was spicy, without being gross as in the first and third books, Feehan's and Holly's. There was sexual heat and a genuine plot. Well done. Angela Knight has improved a lot as a writer from her Red Sage anthology days eight years ago, though she still needs to learn the basic mechanics of punctuation and paaragraphing.

Get this out of the library if you can, otherwise, give it a miss.


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Summary: Huh ????
Review: I'm a big Vampire Books Fan (Maggie Shayne, Sherrilyn Kenyon, you get it....). I have to say, I kind of tired of Christine Feehan, she writes always the same stuff (Carpathian gets injured, has to go in the ground and so on). I like stories that have a little "bite" to it and have a little humor to it. This book, especially Angela Knights story, was at times almost pornographic, sorry. If the hero wouldn't have had fangs, it would surely be in the "adult" section, geez....none of those stories gripped me, really. I guess I'm just not a short story reader....

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Summary: It's all about character...
Review: In this form, the characters are really the thing. And, unfortunately, I wasn't impressed with any of the characters in what was promising to be a nice yummy Halloween read.

Dark Hunger - Really, and truly, onlly for die hard Feehan fans. I had considered myself one, but she's been a bit slow in keeping up with the sub plot of the Morrison's and their attempts to kill off all Carpathians. I love the Carpathian males, too, but they've been starting to grate on my nerves a bit. Just how many can be bigger and badder than all the rest? (We've already had Gregori, after all!) And I've been beginning to wonder, thru the last few books, what TIME do these stories take place in? Dark Guardian was definitely "current". They used email and the world wide web. Are we now going to move into the future?

Awaiting Moonrise - Didnt really do anything for me, honestly. I think it would have been more interesting had Jenny also had the "problem" and been looking for a cure, or if her instincts been to protect Samuel and not use him as a guinea pig. But she didnt and her instincts were her career and not her man and so, I wasn't all that thrilled with the heroine.

The Night Owl - Had promise and Holly usually writes with enough sizzle to make up for less than fantastic character development. However, this one left me slightly repulsed and not at all scintilated.

Seduction's Gift - Another promising story. And I do like interesting premises. However, I'm sure that scholars of Arthurian Legend are gritting their teeth. The major drawbacks on this one was too much information on a whole new world in too small a space and really poor character development. I didnt like any of the characters. Not Morgan Le Fey who was willing to let her grandaughter be raped in order to receive her "gifting", not Lancelot who had "gifted" so many before Grace. Not even Grace, perpetually stuck between her past and her fears and hatred.

So, keep your money, buy it used, or borrow it from a friend! Just ask, and I'll even lend you my copy! ;)

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Summary: Seize the Night
Review: These books are wonderful, I have most of the books about the
Carpathians except the ones orderd. I love the books on warewolfs, darkhunters, all of them but I prefer romance due to
my ability to get involved in the story and picture it in my
mind. It is the way I let go of stress and anxiety. I prefer Chritine Feehan, Sherilyn Kenyon, Angela Knight, Dara Joy, Emma
Holly, Lucy Blue, Amanda Ashley and Patricia Simpson. Thank you
for allowing me to say these things.
Kim Landry

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Summary: One star for each author, no stars for Feehan
Review: This is another of Feehan's short story introduction into a new set of stories. This time about South American Carpathian brothers. It starts out very interesting and quickly turns into jungle sex and the story dies off. If you are looking at this book for more Feehan, unless you are a die hard have to read it all, pass on it. There is nothing in it to miss that will not be mentioned in the next book.

The other stories were sort of interesting but I got to them only when I had nothing else in hand to read. I had not read any of those authors before. But none of the stories inspired me to read other works by those authors.