(read:
19/Oct/11)
Breath of Fire
Prod dets
Pub: 2009, (love Spell) Dorchester
Publishing Co., Inc.
Author: Tammy Kane
Cat: fantasy romance
Format: trade paperback; 291 pp w/ 25
chapters
Whose: Elera & Karl
Age Range: Adult
Synopsis
When the dragon came to claim him,
Karl knew his great plan had gone horribly wrong. If he had known the creature
was real, he wouldn’t have scoffed at the villagers...and he certainly wouldn’t have been so quick to
let them chain him to a rock. Mattaen Initiates trained as warriors, but no man
could defeat a dragon.
“My name is Elera
daughter of Shane. And you, Initiate, are my virgin prize.”
She had vanquished the beast and
named her price: one night with the virgin sacrifice she’d saved. He’d taken a
vow of chastity, but Karl still had a man’s needs—and Elera’s sultry curves
made him ache to taste his first woman. With a scorching kiss she shattered his
defences...and led him into a world of deception and seduction, where he’s be
forced to choose between the brotherhood that had raised him and the woman
whose courage set his heart on fire.
Excerpt
“I could take you, you know.” Elera
whispered, opening her eyes. Her smile was slow. “To my people, that is. And to
the place of dragons.”
His
heart pounded. “For what price?”
When
he did not draw back, Elera sat up and traced her fingers over the raging pulse
in his throat. She gazed up at him with her answer in her eyes.
“I
will not,” he whispered.
Elera
inclined her head. “A kiss, then. If you cannot resist a simple kiss, Karl,
your place is not with the Mattaen.”
She
was holding something back, of that he was certain.
“No
hands,” he said finally, cursing himself for wanting that taste of her as much
as he wanted to knowledge she offered.
Elera
nodded. “No hands. Mine, scholar, not yours. Yours may roam as they please.”
my Thoughts (review)
First thought: (between chapter thirteen
to fifteen) it should have been either a romance or a fiction novel. Making it
something of both got it lacking so much. Having her mind to over the place
rather than focusing on making it just one, make the whole novel lay a little
flat.
*****
I really can’t
think of what to say to this book. Did I like it? That’s still up for grabs,
but I’m putting it out there, this is a kickoff book, something that after I
decide I won’t ever read again. There wasn’t anything really interesting about
the story line, everything to me ran a little flat, and the sex scenes, where
both pulled back to a point where you weren’t a 100% sure what position they were
in, and other you knew especially.
It was really
all over the place, and made you wonder what she was linking when she wrote it,
where she originally wanted to put this book, because it’s a deadline split (in
my opinion) between fantasy and romance, and no matter who you are, your books won’t
make a whole lot of scene unless you find and stick to one topic.
Saying this,
I like that she could have made it much better, but there was too much
information, about the world around them, to spilt, and the things that were
hidden from the start...well, you didn’t really want to find out, you didn’t
care, because the characters themselves never lingered on the thought, never
cared, or showed that they cared when the thing was hinted on.
It was also
the same when it came to the feeling between them, you had no really idea
(other than the obvious that they were going to get together at the end—seriously
it is a romance) what they felt for each other. Like at the beginning, it was
going okay, he hated her for taking everything that he was, and yet he still
cared, and that confusion came across, slightly, real slightly.
It I’m honest
I’d say that the whole book ran flat, the world—which was mostly because of the
characters. You can tell she put thought into the back story. into the world
and yet you didn’t care all that much to for it, because she didn’t do the
characters well, they had a joy, and yet it wasn’t transmitted to the pages in
the way that would makes you enjoy it right along with the characters who’s
seeing it all for the first time. There was none of that and I feel that that’s
why it didn’t work.
But it’s wasn’t
that back, I finished the book, though it wasn’t gripping, I didn’t have to finish it. There wasn’t any
pull to know what happens throughout the story, nor was there any real guess in
how they would get together—or again, maybe it was more that you just didn’t
care.
To me this
book was a fantasy because calling it a romance would make it a crap ass book,
and it wasn’t, the world was amazing, well thought out, and shown in a way that
got you seeing it. The idea behind
the dragons and the riders, the way he was meant to become king, and even the
evil in this book was good, his voice was actually heard threw the parts he was in, were all the other weren’t. The
ideas behind the ideas where great and that made it okay, but.... yeah, the
characters just ruined this book.
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