REVIEW (poisoned kisses)

From the heights of Mount Olympus to the depths of the underworld...

(62) (read: 12/Jan/12)

      Poisoned Kisses

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Mythica series, book 3

Pub: 2010, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin

Author: Stephanie Draven

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (s); 229 pp w/ 25 chapters

Whose: Kyra & Marco

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

As daughter of the war Ares, Kyra had been born into darkness—a darkness she’d vowed to annihilate. Just as she would destroy the notorious Greek arms dealer Marco Kaisiris for feeding the bloodlust she despised.

Kyra planned to use her nymph’s carnal powers to seduce him, then slay him. But she wasn’t prepared for Marco’s secret weapon—his poisoned blood that could kill her. She’d fallen for the only being who could destroy her...yet, how could she spend eternity without him?

     my Thoughts (review)                                      [isn’t the nicest review]

okay, so let me start by telling you that I didn’t particularly like this book or more so, I see know, I don’t like Draven’s writing—since this is the second book of hers that I have read and I didn’t like either about as much as each other and I can’t blame it on the context because this one is about the Greek Gods and I like them. So it’s something else that I don’t like.

I’m sorry this is true, since I’m a fan of romances and all that, but it’s just whenever I start one of her books (again, I’ve only read 2, but it’s enough that I’ll never go for 3) and they annoy me so much that I end up frustrated or annoyed, or just....yeah, just simples things she does, or doesn’t do while writing her tales, puts me off the story all together—mostly it’s about the way her characters meet....

I say this with a attempt that it’s not criticize in a way that will make anyone feel back, but for the fact that’s it’s the main reason I didn’t particularly like the book, I’ll explain more about why this is later.

First, she just doesn’t seem to be able to put her characters together for the first time and have them have this connection of deep lust and inability to what it. it’s a confusing and annoying read, those first few chapters as she tried to get them to kill the love of their life (even when they don’t know it yet) and yet she doesn’t want to because she sees something, never mentioned before, and yet she says it like it’s an obvious fact about the man—I don’t get it, mostly because it wasn’t obvious, mainly because up until that she’s been saying how evil he is, what a monster—so naturally he’s got a sweet side, full of pain and grief. How didn’t I see that before?

This was my reaction to the story after 18 pages; I was done with it by then, finding everything that I could to distract me. I was watching TV, Swamp People was on—no, wait! I like swamp people, so it must have been that one where they collect crap. Whatever it was, I have never liked it and so naturally I read while it’s on. I was even thinking of other stuff while I was reading the pages—really; it was like prime time inside my head.

By chapter 4, page 36, I was done with it, I had gotten that far and only remembered the shit that annoyed. Which at this point was the fact that she was calling the father that she supposably hated ‘daddy’, I really hate that word, yeah, it’s great when you’re trying to make a point that the chicks a daddy’s girl but when they hate them, and have nothing good—anyway, I suppose that it was meant to be a point here to, but she was like a thousand years old, even a chick with daddy issues at that age would have better sense then to go around calling him daddy. It really does annoy me. Really, I can’t even remember anyone I knew who called their dad daddy after they left primary school. I’m sorry but it’s annoying as shit and the when there isn’t anything that’s holding my attention that daddy thing with get me wanting to tear the freakin’ books up. (maybe a little dramatic, but it’s still annoying as fuck)

But in the end I can say that I did actually read this book, I flipped through most of it, when it started to annoy me or bore me, I went a few pages ahead and started up again, but I did make it to the end. And here’s what I learnt.

The book is about two Greek god type people. Marco is a hydra, his blood is poisonous and is why the war gods what him, mostly Ares, who happens to be Kyra’s father, though she’s a nymph, and so she sets out to kill Marco so that her father can’t use him, only she finds that she can’t and then tricking him, twice I think, she falls for him, and he for her, and in the end he get turned into an immortal, being that Kyra is one already and then Kyra fixes Marco by taking the thing that makes him a hydra person out of his system and they live happily ever after.

So I read the book, only I didn’t really pay all that much attention. But read is read and it’s not like I’m ever going to pick the thing up again, really, if you want it (and live in Australia) I’ll ship it to you, I don’t care, it’s not like won’t be giving it to my local library when the next opportunity arises.

Oh, oh, one more thing, this book also comes with a novella in back it’s Midnight Medusa by Stephanie Draven (and as you can guess, I didn’t read the thing, but it’s there none the same)

Series

Midnight Medusa, Wild, Tethered, Bound, [tb], Siren Song, Dark Sins and Desert Sands

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