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Summary: I'd be willing to burn the book
Review: Although I rarely read contemporary romances, the reviews made this sound like a good possibility. I managed to finish it. But it required effort. This book is more adventure/thriller and lust than romance, and the thriller part is not urgent enough to keep the pages turning and is too quickly resolved to justify its word count. The relationship between Alec and Domini is never given emotional depth, and Domini seems to readily give up all her previous views on life at the end. Sizemore simply did not make me believe in them as a couple.
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Summary: Very much a gender specific romance story
Review: As a male who reads a tremendous number of vampire stories, I have noticed a tendency toward gender bias. Books range between guns blazing male fantasies to tragic love stories with fangs. For example, male authors such as Brian Lumley are 99% testosterone, while others, such as Susan Sizemore in this book, are 99% estrogen. "I Burn for You" is very much a romance novel dressed up as a vampire story. If that's what you're looking for, you will not be disappointed. The characters were interesting, but type cast. Alec was the embodiment of troubled maleness, while Domini was the alluring insightful female, swept forward by events beyond her control. The only thing missing from the romance archetype was an image on the cover of a small flock of seagulls flying over crashing surf. "I Burn for You," was a pleasant read, but I couldn't give it the rave reviews some other readers gave it. I doubt I will pick up another of this author's books. However, you could do far worse.
Rating:
Summary: Very much a gender specific romance story
Review: As a male who reads a tremendous number of vampire stories, I have noticed a tendency toward gender bias. Books range between guns blazing male fantasies to tragic love stories with fangs. For example, male authors such as Brian Lumley are 99% testosterone, while others, such as Susan Sizemore in this book, are 99% estrogen. "I Burn for You" is very much a romance novel dressed up as a vampire story. If that's what you're looking for, you will not be disappointed. The characters were interesting, but type cast. Alec was the embodiment of troubled maleness, while Domini was the alluring insightful female, swept forward by events beyond her control. The only thing missing from the romance archetype was an image on the cover of a small flock of seagulls flying over crashing surf. "I Burn for You," was a pleasant read, but I couldn't give it the rave reviews some other readers gave it. I doubt I will pick up another of this author's books. However, you could do far worse.
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Summary: ??
Review: Does anyone else see anything funny in the name of this book? Think about it.
Rating: 
Summary: awesome
Review: good book...if you're a fan of vampire romance this one was awesome! Christine Feehan, Lynsay Sands, Katie McAlistar.... this book is right up your alley...buy it and see for yourself... you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Caveman Vampires Make For Fun if Silly Fluff Reading!
Review: Has anyone read Sizemore's Laws of Blood series? I've read one of the later books in the series and while it wasn't a keeper, it gave me the impression that it was a suitably dark and intriguing world. I'm really really shocked that the person who wrote a vampire novel more along the lines of Laurell K Hamilton would turn around and write one along the lines of Christine Feehan, an author who writes over-the-top barbie and barbarian camp material with dead seriousness. Considering that most of the vampire romances coming out now are underbaked, mostly plotless sex-fests I should be happy that Sizemore wrote a slightly better-than-average one with a plot, albiet a very thin one, than stays in focus for the majority of the story. It was an easy read too, with the type being rather large making the 300 hundred and forty odd pages probably actually closer to 200 hundred. The characters and relationships weren't very complex, conforming closely to the character-types and soul-mate bond thingamajig set out by authors like Feehan. About the the only element that Sizemore does that tries to break out of the mold Feehan has put on the vampire canon is create a multi-branched vampire society. More on that later.
Really, this is a good fluff read that kept me entertained even as I rolled my eyes and chuckled in places. Alec Reynard is a vampire who has used modern medicine to be able to go out into the sun. More specifically, he is a Prime of the Fox Clan. A Prime being an aggressive young vampire male and the Fox Clan being one brand of a core group of 'good vampires' that protect humans. There are also the Families, a nuetral group that can be good or bad, and the Tribes, the wild bad vampires. Like every young Prime, Alec has taken this medicine so he can go out into the sun and join the army... or become a policeman or a fireman or something macho and human-friendly like that because EVERY group is a collection of people who share the exact same thoughts and ideals with no variation. I guess it's just easier to make a nubulous group than actually have a generation gap or counter-culture in the ranks or something that can't be summed up in one sentence. Anway, Alec is an ex-army Prime, meaning that all he wants to do is meet his bondmate and flavish her with his bestial obsessive affections and with his intense sexual need. But watch out because Optimus Prime here is also uber-possesive and turns half animal if everything gets in his way or someone looks at his woman wrong. I found it very amusing when his thoughts would sometime degenerate into this mono-syllabic caveman speak that goes something like this. "Want! My Woman! Need! Must Have! Blood! Sex! YES! MINE!"
Anyway, he had this erotic dream bond with Domini Lancer, a female bodyguard whose also psychic. She can sometimes see into the future but only when the plot calls for it, so her powers are rather unrealiable and not useful. Domini and Alec are thrown together to guard this famous singer from some fanatics that also hate the vampires.
I'm somewhat baffled as to how someone like Optimus Prime, who can turn Cro-Magnon at the turn of hat, could survive in an army unit when a clear head and keen intellect are needed to survive at times. I'm was also amused at the way Sizemore tries to sugar-coat the way female vampires are little more than broodmares. I suppose that making family units ultimately matriarchial is supposed make this easier to swallow. In one unintentionally funny scene, Optimus Prime pretty much admits that Domini is a walking uterus and Domini balks. Optimus Prime goes caveman again screaming about how she going to pop out a lot of sons for him and they are all going to be his brats!
I Burn For You is the a book you should run, not walk, to get if you like the idea of uber-macho vampires and cavepig see-you-want-you antics with a psychic chick. For everyone else, pick it up at the library.
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Summary: Hot!!! Few Caveats
Review: Have you ever read a book with snappy dialog, hot romance and great characters? That fits "I burn for you" to a "T". In particular I got the feeling that these characters were contemporary people. The author does a great job of making the characters 'modern' (which is something of a failure amongst modern romance writers who seem to write old fogey characters in young bodies). Not so with Susan Sizemore's writing. Her characters have snappy dialog, fun humor, and modern outlook. (And yes they even cuss and talk like modern adults). I particularly thought Alec was a great character. Fun sense of humor, and despite the pain he was going, through he was interesting and controlled. Caveats? There was an 'almost-rape' scene at the beginning that made me a trifle uncomfortable after reading it. I prefer to avoid reading forced seduction if I can possibly help it. Fortunately, these scenes are few and far between in most modern novels. Also, I felt Alec's reasoning for seeking his 'treatment' was not well explained and was focused on a tad too much. Who wants to read about a main character going through a therapy for pages and pages..? I prefer vampires who are 'happy' with their vampiric condition. Second...Enough with the baby-making-turned-vampire heroines. Being a hatchery for Vampire spawn isn't romantic, and has been done to death in Feehan's series. How about some single vampires who are happy that way and don't want kids? Overall, this is a promising start. I enjoyed the dialog, and well written characters. With the exception of what was mentioned under Caveats, this a series to watch.
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Summary: Hot!!! Few Caveats
Review: Have you ever read a book with snappy dialog, hot romance and great characters? That fits "I burn for you" to a "T". In particular I got the feeling that these characters were contemporary people. The author does a great job of making the characters 'modern' (which is something of a failure amongst modern romance writers who seem to write old fogey characters in young bodies). Not so with Susan Sizemore's writing. Her characters have snappy dialog, fun humor, and modern outlook. (And yes they even cuss and talk like modern adults). I particularly thought Alec was a great character. Fun sense of humor, and despite the pain he was going, through he was interesting and controlled. Caveats? There was an 'almost-rape' scene at the beginning that made me a trifle uncomfortable after reading it. I prefer to avoid reading forced seduction if I can possibly help it. Fortunately, these scenes are few and far between in most modern novels. Also, I felt Alec's reasoning for seeking his 'treatment' was not well explained and was focused on a tad too much. Who wants to read about a main character going through a therapy for pages and pages..? I prefer vampires who are 'happy' with their vampiric condition. Second...Enough with the baby-making-turned-vampire heroines. Being a hatchery for Vampire spawn isn't romantic, and has been done to death in Feehan's series. How about some single vampires who are happy that way and don't want kids? Overall, this is a promising start. I enjoyed the dialog, and well written characters. With the exception of what was mentioned under Caveats, this a series to watch.
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Summary: Fun story!
Review: I Burn For You was a fun story. Not what I expected but I enjoyed it anyway.
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Summary: I was reading until one last night!
Review: I couldn't put it down. The sexual tension between Alec and Domini was hot and intense. He desperately wanted her, but because he was suffering from a reversion to the demon part of the vampire, he couldn't have her or he would rape her. To feel this guy fighting off his need for the woman he knows is his soulmate was absolutely fabulous, and when they get together I knew why they called it I BURN FOR YOU! Whew!
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