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Summary: I can take it!
Review: Mine to take is the third in the Matrix of Destiny series and continues the fun! The book begins with Gian Ren Guradian of the Mist and King of all Familars in a cell. (familars are those half cat/half man types who are very senusual and mate for life) He was captured after going on a quest to try to find a young familar Dariq. Now he's drugged and not at his full senses. While trying to figure out a way to escape a woman appears with a very interesting proposal.Jenise is the next in line to rule her step fathers kingdom. She doesn't want to however she wants to be free and travel to different worlds but she will be forced to rule if she is in her maiden state. She wants Gian to fix that problem for her and she will help him escape. The plan is that they will part at the next world. Of course we know something Jenise doesn't Gian recognizes Jenise as his mate and speaks the ancient words that make her his. The first time they make love Jenise tells Gian that she wants no pleasure and he takes none for himself because of it. As they escape we get to see far off worlds, with plenty of adventure and danger this book is fantastic. Plus plenty of steamy scenes as Jenise starts learning that maybe a little pleasure isn't so bad. We also get more of the Matrix of Destiny characters this book. Gian ren is related to Rejar! While you can read this book alone I recommend the other Matrix books. When you read all three of them in order there are things your able to appreciate more.Plus you meet all the characters and see them develop! A story that any sci-fi or romance fan will be proud to own!
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Summary: Curiosity killed the Cat in Hearts Lair
Review: OK, like a cat, I was curious when another reviewer...wrote that this book's "basically the same book as Hearts Lair by Kathleen Morgan...Everything is similar." Even though Morgan's book is hard to come by these days, I bought it and read both just to see for myself. The reviewer was wrong; They are two very different books! So, to keep others from "killing the cat with curiosity..." let me set the record straight. Admittedly, there are some similarities, but NOT "everything". Both heros are half-cat-half-human with green eye(s) and royal bloodlines. Karic, the hero in Heart's Lair, is heir to the Cat-Man throne and has shoulder-length hair and two green eyes with some gold in them; Gian Ren, in Mine to Take, is the reigning King of all Familiar, has a waste-length mane, one gold eye, and one green eye with 3 gold flecks. Both virgin heroines come to their heros while the men are chained captives, although only one is on a bed at the time; the other has all four limbs bound, forcing him to stand spread-eagle in the middle of the room. In both books the bad guys have "new secret weapons" but in one it's a drug that proves effective against Gian Ren and in the other it's a mind-controling machine that proves ineffective against Karic. And that's where the similarities end! In Hearts Lair, Karic's first site of Liane is while she's nude, bathing in a pond, not while he's a drugged captive as in the case between Gian Ren and Jenise in Mine to Take. The methods of escape are completely different between the two books. No where does Karic make such an electrically-charged illuminated transformation from man to cat like Gian Ren, nor does Karic benefit from it's healing properties. And Gian Ren doesn't have "retractable claws" or "visual cloaking" capabilities while in human form like Karic. But the strongest difference is the first sexual exchange between the main characters of both books. In Hearts Lair, it's rape, with a strong touch of beastiality. In Mine to Take, Jenise demands he take her virginity as part of a bargain, and although Gian Ren complies, technically speaking, he refuses to "take his pleasure" because --circumstances notwithstanding-- she won't allow him to "pleasure her first." ... Hello? BIG difference!
In Hearts Lair, you spend much of the rest of the book watching the two who had loved one another, although not yet admitting it to each other, struggle to overcome that one brutal night. In Mine to Take, the struggle is over the fact that unbeknownst to Jenise, Gian Ren actually "marries" her that first night through his native ceremony that she's unfamiliar with... no pun intended ;). While I enjoyed both books, and was glad to see two talented writers handle the Cat-Man-type characters so differently, I felt the better of the two is actually Ms. Joy's Mine to Take, with its humorous bits of wit (The Wee-Chuck-Chucks are priceless!!!) and warmly erotic love scenes. Although, you may disagree if you don't like cliff-hangers. Mine to Take is part of an ongoing series so threads of the plot are left untied, while Hearts Lair has closure.
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Summary: Dissapointing.
Review: I found the book not very well written, though I applaud Dara Joy's talent in creating her own fantasy world. The characters seemed extremely underdeveloped and the sex "scenes" seemed tacked on for effect.
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Summary: miaow....
Review: all i can say is that i want one. i want a man who can do everything the this book's hero can. i mean wow! i would tell you all what he can do, but then i'd be giving away the plot, and that would just be mean.
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Summary: I felt dissapointed in the end
Review: I really love reading Dara Joy's books, this book is no different. It is a great book, the love scenes are definitly hot and steamy... but the ending left me wondering. Things like the ring that Gian Ren saw, and the drug that was going to be used against the Familiars, and that Karpon was never defeated in the book. The book just ended with everyone happy, Rejar became a Charl, and Jenise was to have Gians baby and they were in love... but overall I was dissapointed with the main conflict not being solved. She could have ended this book a lot better I think.
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Summary: Mine to Take, I wish I could, haaa.
Review: This is my favorite book in the series so far. The book is rich in detail, strong character lines, story development that reads like a dream, and a sensual feel that will leave you wanting more than just this book. These are only a few of the elements of this book. There is so much to all of Dara Joy's books, that you have to re-read and re-read them over and over and still not full grasp everything that is going on and that ties into the story. These are the reasons why Dara Joy's stories are so great; and that hardly any author out there, in any genre, that can recreate this type of feel for a book. I will fully support Dara and her past, present and future works. And I highly recommend this book along with all her other books to any one that wants to expand the reading and open their horizons
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Summary: HOT! HOT!HOT!
Review: Well as you can see this book was HOT!. This is the story of Gian Ren a Familiar, a man who is also a cat, and Jenise, a Frensi woman. He is being held captive by a man who wishes to use him to ruin Jenise and take away her rightful place as ruler of the planet Ganakari. She helps him escape with his promise to help her gain her freedom in a most unusual way. Together they must overcome nature's deadly enemies as well as man's. The have a long journey where they helped by a friends along the way. The love scenes in this book are amazing to say the least. They were very hot and steamy and also tender and loving. There is humor throughout the book which made me laugh and smile. I know understand the book "Rejar" better and I look forward to reading others in this series. Dara Joy is becoming one of my favorite authors.
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Summary: FIVE STAR CLASSIC!
Review: AAR gave this book an A+ desert isle keeper status and so has just about everyone else. This is one of the most perfect romances ever written. Hero, thebest. Heroine, the best. Story, you will not put it down. Heat factor, burning. MTT is in a class by itself. Once you read it you will never forget it. But beware you will get DJ fever and go like a crazy person to find her back list.
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Summary: Great cover and...great cover
Review: I am clearly in the minority on this book, but have to say that I found it to be a huge disappointment. I read it based upon my enjoyment of Dara Joy's High Energy which I loved. I do enjoy fantasy romances, so that was not the problem. The problem was that I found this book to be missing the elements which I saw in High Energy: interesting story, warmth, wittiness, good character development, believable or fun situations (even if they were ridiculous, the situations were fun), and wonderful love/sex scenes. The premise is full of potential: a princess on the run with their world's version of a living sex toy. Unfortunately I never cared about the couple, the woman was a wimp, the man was duplicitous for his own purposes without any consideration of the woman's life plans (whatever they were), and the main plot line was enough to put me to sleep (and did so on the night I was reading it). The back and forth with scenes of people other than the couple from the hero's world were boring in the extreme and felt like a thinly-disguised renovation of any number of sci-fi movies or books. Even the sex/love scenes were cold, I felt, because the characters were so thinly developed. The cover was great, though. Whew, what a cover.
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Summary: Too much of the plot was left wide open
Review: This was a good book - no where near as good as Rejar. Also there were two main storylines that were introduced and never tied up in this book. The young familiar left in the old cabin being tended by and old lady and Tarbon with his drug to capture the Familiar. Is there another book being written in this series? If so when? Also I really believe it is about time that Traed had his own book. And if I read the word sensual one more time I am going to scream! But all in all this was a good book if you are following the matrix of destiny series - which I am - otherwise I would have given this 2-3 stars.
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