Rejar

Rating:
Summary: Thumbs down to the heroine in this book
Review: I really enjoyed the other two Dara Joy books I have read, Knight of a Trillion Stars and Mine to Take. I liked the women in those books. I just wanted to slap the female lead in this story. What on earth does Rejar see in her???? She has no imagination or sense of adventure. She was totally boring.

Rating:
Summary: Not a good read
Review: I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the fantasy romance. I picked up Joy's other novel Mine to Take on a whim, and liked it well enough to read the rest of the series (3 books, so far). The first book in this series is Knight of a Trillion Stars. Rejar is the second of the group. I had a few problems with this book. It feels like a series of 2 or 3 really well-written, inspired scenes weaved together with a whole lot of crap. Most of the book is typical romance fare. The fantasy elements aren't exactly seamlessly integrated (actually, they stick out like hunter's orange) and it makes for a jarring read. The sensuality in the book is completely overblown and forced. And speaking of forced, there are scenes that bent the line into rape. Even though they are explained away as being part of Rejar's alien nature, it's still using sex to dominate and punish. All in all, I was constantly having to push through this novel. The good scenes do not make it a worthwhile read. I enjoyed the other two books in this series, and I hope that this was just a bad fluke.

Rating:
Summary: A must have for fantasy romance readers
Review: Rejar is another great book by Dara Joy. It is the follow up to Knight of a Trillion Stars but it does stand on it's own. It is very Hot and although it has a fantasy , science fiction theme, it also takes you back to Regency England too. Like her other books it is really steamy. For those of us that like our romance hot, Dara Joy doesn't dissapoint.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty good.
Review: I have read all of Dara Joy's Matrix of Destiny books and I love them. The sense of excitement and mystery keep me hooked. Dara is an example of an author who gets better as she writes. Of all three I think Mine to Take is her best in the series.

But on to Rejar. I thought this book was good. The humor, action and plot are well done. And of course, I love Rejar! I thought he was a great hero. The only complaint I have was with Lilac's character. But as I thought on it more, I realized that for the time period of the book and the fact that she was young, these contributed to her character. Hopefully in future books we will see Lilac's character mature and grow with time. So for that reason alone, since I know their will be more books in the series, I can overlook some of the flaws with the heroine.

I am impatiently waiting for the other books in this series, especially Traed's story (my favorite character.)

Rating:
Summary: BEAUTIFUL, HUMOROUS AND VERY DIFFERENT!
Review: This was the first book by Dara Joy that I have read. She came highly recommended and I can see why. I had a bad experience with a futuristic series by Jayne Castle(a.k.a. Jane Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick). I love Ms. Krentz as an author but I hated the Amaryllis, Zinnia & Orchid series. I found them to be very confusing and I didn't connect with the characters. In this story Ms. Joy did a fantastic job of weaving an interesting and imaginative plot. I was able to follow the story and identify with the characters probelms. The only reason I didn't give this book a 5 star rating is because like some of the other reviewers. I felt that Ms. Joy could have given the heroine a little more common sense. I understand that the story is set in 1811 and she was very innocent,but I don't think that lack of experience should cause a person to come across as so dim witted! Don't get me wrong Lilac was very sweet and I loved this book, but she could have made her a little smarter!!

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Summary: Strange romance
Review: This is a time travel novel, but not in the traditional sense. Rejar does travel through time, but he is a familar (shape-changing cat) from what I believe is another planet. Kind of confusing because the term familiar, usually refers to a witches cat not a "species". He is a likeable character, but his love interest Lilac is not. She is simple, dull, and lacks any sense of adventure. The book was just strange.

Rating:
Summary: Yuck!
Review: Although the concept of a sexy familiar traveling through time sounded very appealing, I was so disappointed. I understand that there must be some sort of tension in a love story, but the heroine Lilac was so irritating I couldn't understand why Rejar just didn't say forget it! I felt absolutely no chemistry between the two characters at all. I guess Lilac was supposed to be a spitfire living under the strict mores of Regency England, but she just seemed like an immature brat. In fact, she acted so much like a child I found the sex scenes disturbing. It was like Rejar was trying to seduce a little girl.

Rating:
Summary: Bad Rap!!!!!
Review: I think this book got a BAD RAP!!!!!!! I REALLY enjoyed this book!!!!!!!!! I loved the relationship between Lilac and Rejar! It was only fitting that he find someone who wasn't falling at his feet. I loved the embroidery scene!!! I think all the women who found the intensity of certain scenes upsetting need to review them again and compare them to other scenes in say (early Johanna Lindsey). There were NO rape scenes in this book!! Rejar was just very intense in the way he made love. He could not hurt her... that would have meant hurting himself. His whole purpose when he made love was to gain the pleasure being reflected back from his partner.

Rating:
Summary: Hoping for a rewrite.....
Review: I've enjoyed Dara Joy's other books very much, and wish I could say the same for REJAR. Cute story, very yummy hero, and a moronic, childish "heroine" you just want to slap. A lot. I'm hoping the author will go back and re-work this one at some point, because it could be a great story if the heroine was more appealing...

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Summary: Rejar-Wonderful paranormal romance
Review: On the way to a tea party, Lilac Devere and her Auntie Agatha are shocked when a flash of light, a booming crash, and a large black cat with two different colored eyes, one fiery gold, one ice blue, suddenly appear in their coach. Lilac is immediately taken with the pretty kitty, and vows to take it home with her if it's still here when they get back from the party.

Little does Lilac know, the black cat is not just a cat, but a man who can transform into a cat. A Familiar to be exact, who is from a future time and a different dimension. Rejar knows he's been sent here for a reason, so he decides to stay in Ree Gen Cee Ing Land and find out why he's here.

Lilac brings her kitty into her home to keep. Suddenly, Lilac starts having wonderful dreams about a sexual, NAKED man. Rejar knows he can't stay in this world as a cat, so he decides to tell people he's from a faraway land so no one can check his story. He tells people his name is Nickolai Azov and that he's a prince from Russia. When Lilac meets the Prince for the first time, she's shocked to find that it's the same sensual stranger from her dreams. What she also didn't expect was to see the Prince who had two different colored eyes, an eye of fiery gold, and an eye of ice blue!

Rejar decides then and there that he will marry the beautiful Lilac. But before he can do that, he wants Lilac to be used to him, hence the nighttime visits. There are some advantages of being able to do this, and when he discovers a kitten-shaped birthmark on Lilac's inner thigh, he uses it to his advantage. When he tells Auntie Agatha about the birthmark, she thinks he has compromised her niece, and proclaims that they will be married days later. Lilac's reaction was outrage, to say the least. She was very opposed to the marriage, which she knows the obnoxious Prince Azov has tricked her into. When the minister asks her 'Do you take this man...' she refuses to answer. Rejar finds this vastly amusing, and, having telepahic ability, sends her a message asking her if she wants him to stop the cerimony. When she shouts "Yes I do!" the minister pronounces them husband and wife, since no one else heard the thought. Lilac once again realizes she's ben tricked. This results in a marriage of hilarious escapades.

Another good thing about this book is that we revisit with characters form the previous novel "Knight of a Trillion Stars", starring Lorgin, Rejar's brother, his wife Adeeann, and a new addition to the family! We also meet again with Traed, who shows up to 'pester' our hero the day after his wedding, and Yaniff, an ancient wizard who wants Rejar to join the Alliance, a group of extraordinary wizards on Rejar's home planet.

This book was a story of wild contradictions, explosive sexual encounters, a heroine with just the right amount of stubborness and laughter, and a hero with the biggest heart a hero could have. Definitely a keeper. ;)