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Summary: I read this book in one day.
Review: I picked up this book ... yesterday morning and had it finished by 8 o'clock that night. It was a very good book. What interested me about it in the first place was that I was wondering if and when Johanna was going to write about Tedra's and Challen's son Dalden and this is his story. It adds both futuristic and modern day to this story. You will find some old friends and some old enemies but again you will find a love story worthy of Johanna Lindsey. When Dalden is asked for help he has to go to a world that there are just rumors of having life on it and when he gets there he finds the rumors to be true. He finds he will need the help of someone from this planet and she is more than willing to help him. Together they will find a way to help each other and to find the love of a lifetime. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and think you will too.
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Summary: A Delightful Read!
Review: "Stars, I hope the female you finally want for yourself isn't Sha-Ka'ani, and that she never gives you any peace!"In Heart of a Warrior, Shanelle Van'yer's wish comes true when her twin brother, Sha-Ka'ani warrior Dalden Ly-San-Ter meets independent California girl Brittany Callaghan! In the third installation of the Ly-San-Ter family saga, the evil King Jorran (Keeper of the Heart) has stolen a box of Sunderian mind-altering rods, which he intends to use to take over another planet. Dalden follows Jorran light years into uncharted space to the planet Earth. Dalden, who is accompanied by Shanelle, her lifemate Falon, and his mother Tedra's brash, free-thinking Mock 2 computer Martha, learns that Jorran has landed in Bayview, California. While looking for Jorran in a local mall, an overwhelmed Dalden meets Brittany, a six-foot tall knockout who is immediately drawn to the gorgeous warrior. He recruits the beautiful carpenter to help him locate Jorran. Brittany is more than willing to help the handsome foreigner, but immediately gets more than she bargained for. But neither the attempted government takeovers nor the vast differences in their cultures can keep these two lifemates apart. Romance fans will not be disappointed with this book - however, I strongly advise people to read Warrior's Woman and Keeper of the Heart so that they have a better understanding of the Ly-San-Ter's background. But all-in-all, Heart of a Warrior is a funny, delightful read.
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Summary: Tepid Sequel to "Warrior's Woman"
Review: "Heart of a Warrior" is the least enjoyable of a three-book sci-fi romance series written by Johanna Lindsey. The first book, "Warrior's Woman," is a personal favorite. The second, "Keeper of the Heart," is alright. This third book - "Heart of a Warrior" - simply lacks in passion, plot, character, etc. "Heart" is the story of a gorgeous "barbarian" who travels via spaceship to modern-day Earth to stop an evil alien king from committing bad deeds and ends up falling for a Californian carpenter named Brittany. The story line is promising, but ... Among my many complaints: Back-story is the enemy, especially when there is too much of it. "Heart" takes the cake in overdosing on back-story, mostly because it borrows heavily from its prequels in terms of evil villains and family relationships. Also, there's lot of really dumb things that happen in this book. One of the more irritating and unbelievable things is the fact that drop-dead gorgeous Brittany is still a virgin at almost 30 and single because she is (drum roll please) "too tall" for men. Come on, she's 6 feet. Whatever. She also refuses to believe Dalden's an alien (albeit a gorgeous one) for SO long that it gets to be pretty lame. If I spent 3 months on a spaceship and walked on the moon, like Brittany does, I'd be convinced my new boyfriend was from outer space. Another problem I had with this book is the fact that it covers the same ground as "Until Forever," an earlier Lindsey novel, in which a barbarian-like hero also tries to adjust to modern-day technology, like the car, etc. It was fun in "Until Forever," but pretty boring in "Heart of a Warrior." Worse were the hints that Tedra's Ancients from Kystran were similar to Earthlings - Lindsey never elaborates, which was frustrating. My only enjoyment came in reading about Tedra again, who shined in "Warrior's Woman." I love that story, and recommend it over the lackluster "Heart of a Warrior" any day.
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Summary: Without Heart
Review: Without mentioning the rape and explicitly violent books written by the author, this is her very worst. An interesting read at from the begining to the middle, but after that-dead in the water. Anyone ever notice the enormous amount of twins found in JL's books? Also, unless it is a sequal, there is a suprising lack of a maternal parent in virtually all of her stories. Although the character had a mother in this one, she is suprisingly(or rather unsuprisingly) absent. Not once does this girl think about all the wory her mother is going to experience as a result of her disappearence. Furthermore, I'd like to meet an American woman who would put up with being PUNISHED! But then again I'd like to meet an American woman over 25 who is still a virgin. A little realism in my fantasy please. Don't waste your time with this one.
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Summary: mixed feelings
Review: I have to say that of the three books this was the first on that I read and I happened to like it, but then I saw that I had read the 3rd book before the first 2 so I went and read the other to and I have to that Heart of a warrior even thought I had liked it was saddly lacking compare to its prequles. I have to say that had I read warriors women and keeper of hearts I would have be very disapointed in Heart of a warrior and would never have finished reading it. but I guess I'm glad that Heart of a warrior was the first book I read and not the last.
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Summary: Tepid Sequel to "Warrior's Woman"
Review: "Heart of a Warrior" is the least enjoyable of a three-book sci-fi romance series written by Johanna Lindsey. The first book, "Warrior's Woman," is a personal favorite. The second, "Keeper of the Heart," is alright. This third book - "Heart of a Warrior" - simply lacks in passion, plot, character, etc. "Heart" is the story of a gorgeous "barbarian" who travels via spaceship to modern-day Earth to stop an evil alien king from committing bad deeds and ends up falling for a Californian carpenter named Brittany. The story line is promising, but ... Among my many complaints: Back-story is the enemy, especially when there is too much of it. "Heart" takes the cake in overdosing on back-story, mostly because it borrows heavily from its prequels in terms of evil villains and family relationships. Also, there's lot of really dumb things that happen in this book. One of the more irritating and unbelievable things is the fact that drop-dead gorgeous Brittany is still a virgin at almost 30 and single because she is (drum roll please) "too tall" for men. Come on, she's 6 feet. Whatever. She also refuses to believe Dalden's an alien (albeit a gorgeous one) for SO long that it gets to be pretty lame. If I spent 3 months on a spaceship and walked on the moon, like Brittany does, I'd be convinced my new boyfriend was from outer space. Another problem I had with this book is the fact that it covers the same ground as "Until Forever," an earlier Lindsey novel, in which a barbarian-like hero also tries to adjust to modern-day technology, like the car, etc. It was fun in "Until Forever," but pretty boring in "Heart of a Warrior." Worse were the hints that Tedra's Ancients from Kystran were similar to Earthlings - Lindsey never elaborates, which was frustrating. My only enjoyment came in reading about Tedra again, who shined in "Warrior's Woman." I love that story, and recommend it over the lackluster "Heart of a Warrior" any day.
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Summary: horrible
Review: There were no juicy scenes, no steamy debates, no humor. NOTHING! The annoying computer needed to be unplugged. Brittany was dim-witted. I can't compare this to anything else JL has written. I kept thinking this is some kinda joke!?! Who wrote this crap? Lindsey was my favorite. If this were my 1st by her, I'd never read anything else.
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Summary: A Lackluster Addition to a Great Series
Review: Brittany Callaghan was instantly drawn to the gorgeous 7-foot tall stranger when she saw him. Being 6-foot herself, she had a difficult time finding men to date. She also had a difficult time letting go and so found herself a virgin at the age of 28. But when she spotted the sexy foreigner, Brittany found herself wondering what he would be like as a lover. Unfortunately, the stranger disappeared before Brittany could find out anything about him...only to reappear out of thin air in her living room a day later! Dalden Ly-San-Ter, a Sha-Ka'an warrior, was determined to hunt down Jorren, his family's enemy who had come to Earth with mind-altering weapons to conquer the planet. He never planned on getting distracted by a beautiful Earth woman who thought he was a foreigner visiting the US for the first time. However, Dalden soon found that he couldn't bear to part with Brittany, even when he had captured Jorren - so he took her with him. Too bad Dalden couldn't get Brittany to believe that his spaceship was real, or that he was a real warrior, or that they were really on their way to his home planet... Heart of a Warrior is the story of Shanelle's (Keeper of the Heart) brother and continues the tale of the Ly-San-Ter family. I read Keeper of the Heart first and found that I understood everything fine without reading the first book in the series called Warrior's Woman, but I have to admit that the background was helpful here in Heart of a Warrior because Dalden and Brittany were all over the galaxy. Still, I don't think that you need to read any of the other books to understand what is going on. That aside, this book has to be my least favorite in the series so far due to the boredom factor. It started off well, but as soon as we got to the good part - where Brittany flew off into space with Dalden - it fell apart. For the remaining 2/3rds of the book, Brittany refuses to believe that anything that is happening to her is real and that it is all some elaborate hoax, despite tons of evidence to the contrary. I liked Brittany and Dalden, but I just didn't feel that the chemistry was as heated between the two of them as some of Johanna Lindsey's other characters. I guess my main complaint is just that I expect more from this author than I received here. If you really want to read it, find a copy at your local library or borrow it from a friend who was unfortunate enough to pay money for it. It is still a pretty fun, fast read, but definitely nothing memorable.
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Summary: This book could have been sooo much better...
Review: I love the futuristic setting that Ms. Lindsey has brought us through the Ly-San-Ter family. The barbarian society is fascinating to read about. However, this book falls short of being as good as "Warrior's Woman". The beginning of the book is great; Dalden arriving on Earth and finds his lifemate. They then catch the bad guys in about the middle of the book. The rest of the book is Brittany's refusal to believe that everything Dalden tells her is the truth. She refuses to believe in the ship, the computer, the other barbarians, their planet, even their strange creatures have an explanation to her. It got VERY old after awhile. The more attractive plot to me would have been to have her disbelieve for a little while, then embrace it, and perhaps have a little more interaction with the "bad guy". This "bad guy" is the same one who wanted Shanelle in "Keeper of the Heart", and now he wants Brittany. How much more of an attractive plotline this would have been if Jorran kidnapped Brittany back to his own planet?! We could have seen Dalden chasing after her, perhaps rallying his planet to fight the Centurians to get her back. Perhaps that would have been a similar plot to "Keeper of the Heart", but it would have been a much better page turner than what the book actually is, simply the disbelief of Brittany to an almost painful level of "what heck was she thinking?!" This book started out with promise, but ended on a flat note. I give it a C-.
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Summary: Sucks
Review: Really, this is disappointing! I wonder if this is a romance novel or a fantasy narration. Brittany and Dalden barely interact enough to fall in love. In fact, there are more ink of Brittany interacting with the computer Martha than with Dalden. There is virtually no sex scene, which makes this book unbearingly dull. Brittany is not an impressive lead character, rather stupid and stubborn. How could she keep convincing herself that she is in some fantasy programme?! This romance just doesn't hold water.
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