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Summary: Wow!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading, "Into the Fire" By Anne Stuart. Fast-paced, thrilling, twists, and of course, you gotta have the sex! Couldn't put the book down!
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Summary: E for effort equals 1 star at best !!
Review: I used to be a fan of Anne Stuart that is to say until she started putting crap out like this trainwreck! Yuck, gag me with Kelly Rippa's silver spoon! I have not enjoyed Ms. Stuart's last few novels, I'm sorry to say. She is getting like a lot of the oldies but goodies...can someone besides me say the word retirement? Just a thought!
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Summary: A Review for the Unintiated
Review: If you're already familiar with Anne Stuart, then you know what you're getting with "Into The Fire," and the Bad Boy formula will not surprise or revolt you. My understanding of the intended audience for this type of anti-hero is that for some readers, verbal, emotional and physical abuse heighten the sexual tension between the main characters. Most readers who come back to Anne Stuart, even if they don't comprehend their attraction to the material in the way this cult outsider does, have come to terms with the basic premise - the hero mistreats the heroine, the heroine's sexual attraction to the abuser makes it OK, and the reader finds both titillation and also some kind of distant sympathetic comprehension for the abuser's position. The underpinning of the bad boy formula is that the reader must find the portrayal of the abuse a sexual enhancement.However, obviously this is not everybody's cup of tea; in the same way you can't explain the joys of cross-dressing to someone who just doesn't fancy it, you can't expect this type of taste to appeal to all readers. Only you, dear reader of this review, know if this will get you off! If these are your issues, read it and enjoy! May all your abuse be only of the literary variety! For myself, I like psychologically tormented heros who maintain some shred of human decency; so this just didn't do it for me.
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Summary: Sexy and intriguing
Review: Jamie grew up with her cousin Nate. Nate was adopted by Jamie's parents when both his parents are killed. Jamie idolized her older cousin. When Nate is killed, Jamie tries to find out why. Dillon was Nate's best friend. And while Jamie and Nate lived a life of privilege, Dillon was raised by a drunken father. Why and how Nate and Dillon become friends is part of the mystery of this intriguing book. Jamie's search for answers leads her to Dillon's home and business. Nate was killed in Dillon's home. Stuart uses flashbacks to uncover the relationships of Jamie, Dillon and Nate. The gradual revealing of the past kept me anxiously turning pages. As Dillon and Jamie reunite--and maybe with Nate's ghost, they ignite an unfinished attraction. The relationship between Dillon and Jamie starts slowly. Rekindling an old relationship, fighting it, and discovering their secrets gives insight into both leads. As their relationship develops into more, Into the Fire book becomes quite sexy. Dillon is a great "bad boy" and Jamie is his desire- I really enjoyed Into the Fire. I loved the relationship between Jamie and Dillon, the mysteries behind Nate.
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Summary: Another hit by Stuart...
Review: Jamie Kincaid idolized her cousin, Nate, since childhood. When he dies in the home of his best friend, her old childhood crush, Dillon Graynor, Jaime is determined to get answers. She has never forgotten the night twelve years ago that she lost her innocence through Dillon. She didn't expect the attraction she felt for him to still be as strong as it was after twelve years where she thought she put everything that had to do with Dillon behind her. Dillon could barely keep himself away from his best friends cousin when she was sixteen. Now she's back as a twenty eight year old woman and he's had twelve years to fantasize about what being with Jaime would be like. While he was the bad boy, she was the honor student. He was a drug dealer while she didn't want anything to do with them. The only thing they have in common is the almost animal attraction they have for each other as well as Nate. Stuart delivers in this novel of romantic suspense. In her usual way, Stuart shows the darker side of relationships. I really couldn't sympathize with Jaime the whole time though. She turned a blind eye to who Nate really was just like her mother did. Always coming in a distant second, Jaime felt that was what she deserved as an adopted child. She also wanted to run way too much, and I can see how it was supposed to come off, to me she came off as a little of a coward. I still enjoyed it though, the storyline and the relationship between Dillon and Jamie was very entertaining.
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Summary: Dark, compelling story
Review: Jamie Kincaid, in a state of grief over the murder of her cousin Nate, sets out for Wisconsin, in search of Nate's old friend Dillon Gaynor, hoping he can provide answers regarding Nate's death, which coincidently, happened at Dillon's home. Prodded along by adoptive mother Isobel, and instructed not to return home until she obtains information Isobel so badly wants, Jamie seemingly has no choice other than to remain at Dillon's, and the game begins. Dillon's hostility is apparent from the get go. This leaves the reader wondering if all the strange occurrences taking place are Dillon playing predatory games to scare Jamie off, and if not, what else could possible be going on here? As the plot thickens, Dillon, Nate and Jamie's past is revealed through flashbacks, and we begin to understand why Jamie is unable to walk away from the sensual sparks flying between her and perpetual bad boy Dillon. Bits and pieces of Dillon's dark side are revealed, leaving you to further wonder if the bad boy has reformed or been lead further down the road to vengeance. Anne Stuart provides another dark, erotic, and compelling suspense story. Dillon Gaynor is truly one of her darkest bad boys, and we are left wondering who - or what - he really has become until the end of the book. This is not a pretty story, the characters are flawed, the plot twisted, but this author delivers again what she does so well. Not a story for the faint of heart!
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Summary: Stuart's spin Perfection!!
Review: Moonrise has been my favourite book for ages. It just does not get any better than that. Stuart came near that perfection with Nightfall, Ritual Sins and Shadows at Sunset, but it was always close, but not close enough. Well, Moonrise now shares that title of favourite book with Into The Fire. This is Stuarts best work since Moonrise, so Stuart fans queue up!! It is a masterpiece. Dark, moody, steamy and so sexy it will knock your socks off. Nate Kincaid was beloved his whole life. Doted on by his uncle and aunt, they treated him more like a son, after his parents died in a fire. Treated him more special than the daughter they adopted. That hurt Jamie Kincaid, but since she adored Nate, too, she almost viewed everyone worshipping Nate as his due. So why would someone kill Nate Kincaid? Someone had, in a most brutal fashion: beaten him to death in a dirty garage on the edge of a dying town in Wisconsin. Jamie's mother wants answers. Jamie wants answers, too. And since the police take an apathetic view that is was just another drug deal gone sour, she has come to Wisconsin to find them, come to the one person who can supply them...if only he will. Dillon Gaynor.
Stuart is the resident genius of creating bad boys we cannot resist. Dillon Gaynor is Stuart at her best. A vividly drawn, dark, complex Alpha-Male hero, which means he is not a hero at all. Dillon is likely responsible for Nate's death, in the real sense, if not, then for leading Nate into drug culture. For most of her life, Jamie had watched Dillon at a safe distance. A pretty girl, more smart than she should be, according to Nate, she valued that distance from Dillon. Being smart, Jamie clung to that safety, because deep inside she knew Dillon fascinated her. As with big beautiful panthers, we hunger to get close and touch them, stroke them, but the innate sense of survival warns us they are apt to take off our hand if we do. So smart girls keep their distance, though we harbor that secret seed these bad boys could make us forget everything mama taught us. But one night 12 years ago, Dillon did not keep his distance. A night that forever ruined his life and Jamie's. Echoes still haunt and shape them both. After a lousy Thanksgiving and watching her mother decline as the need for answers grows, Jamie sucks up her courage and travels days to get to Wisconsin. Within miles of her destination, her rickety car breaks down in the middle of the night, so she is forced to walk the final leg of her journey to confront Dillon. She fears him, is convinced Dillon kept Nate supplied with the drugs that lead to his death. But she fears that we tiny spot inside her more, knowing that despite refusing to admit it, Dillon is her obsession and can lure her to walk on the wild side. Now she faces him for the first time in over a decade, Dillion who had been her secret teenage fantasy, only to find the man is so much more. Ghosts haunt Jamie and Dillion, ghost of their troubled past, maybe even the ghost of Nate. As she tries to unriddle the mystery of Nate's ugly death, she comes to understand someone is trying to kill her. Could that someone be Dillion? Could Nate's death have something to do with the horrible night 12 years ago? Could Dillion want revenge for spending a year and a half in prison because of Nate and Jamie? No one creates this sort of bad to the bone, arrogant, dark and blooding male as Stuart does. We have seen this time and again in Moorise, Nightfall, Ritual Sins and Shadows at Sunset (all highly recommend and with a BIG question why they are NOT in reprint.) Without doubt she is the best and none can touch her in this special Alpha-Male magic. Jamie and Dillion are unforgetable and will be for long time to come.
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Summary: Asolutely brilliant!!
Review: Ms. Stuart is not afraid to walk on the knife's edge nor take her readers with her. Every time I read one of her books, I am put through an emotional ringer, and this book is Stuat at peak form! I love the tormented characters, so vivid. No writer can touch her! Cannot wait for her next book.
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Summary: Asolutely brilliant!!
Review: Ms. Stuart is not afraid to walk on the knife's edge nor take her readers with her. Every time I read one of her books, I am put through an emotional ringer, and this book is Stuat at peak form! I love the tormented characters, so vivid. No writer can touch her! Cannot wait for her next book.
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Summary: Nobody does it better!
Review: Nobody does the modern gothic better than Anne Stuart and INTO THE FIRE is no exception. There are only a handful of authors who have me running into a bookstore to buy their new books and Anne has been one of them from way back. I literally read INTO THE FIRE in one sitting on a plane and I was afraid I was going to be next infamous case of spontaneous combustion. That's how hot Dillon and Jamie's relationship was. I loved their backstory and I'm so glad that Ms. Stuart isn't afraid to be politically incorrect and to write about fascinating, flawed characters who are redeemed during the course of the story. That's always been the mark of wonderful fiction. She's a writer who's not afraid to take chances and she definitely tapped into my primal fantasies with this book. An excellent read!
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