Burning Alive: The Sentinel Wars Review
Excellently written, cannot wait to see and read the next book.
Keep them coming.
Burning Alive: The Sentinel Wars Feature
- ISBN13: 9780451412713
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Caution : readers may feel the heat coming off the pages.
They are the Sentinels...
Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes-the Synestryn. Now, one warrior must fight his own desire if he is to discover the power that lies within his one true love...
Helen Day is haunted by visions of herself surrounded by flames, as a dark-haired man watches her burn. So when she sees the man of her nightmares staring at her from across a diner, she attempts to flee-but instead ends up in the man's arms. There, she awakens a force more powerful and enticing than she could ever imagine. For the man is actually Theronai warrior Drake, whose own pain is driven away by Helen's presence.
Together, they may become more than lovers-they may become a weapon of light that could tip the balance of the war and save Drake's people...
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complete an utter crap! - Nicole M. Ramirez - AZ
This book isn't as bad as some of the ones I've read but GOD! Usually when I read a paperback book that I hate, I have to force myself to finish it after picking it up off the floor from having thrown it across the room several times. I have to say had this book not been on my kindle I would have ripped it to shreds. I hate the female character in this book. And the male one for that matter. THe female is so week. Because shes had a bad vision where she sees herself burning alive shes terrified of fire. It was briefly mentioned that shes also afraid because her mother died in a fire and 3 of her houses burned down. But mostly you only get the sense that she's really only afraid of fire because she thinks its going to kill her. So she screams and freezes every time she sees it. She ends up coming to a point in the book where shes facing some big baddies who, guess what, can only be killed by fire. While the two big he-men with her are fighing off the creatures, she's supposed to use her magic to create fire and destroy the gooey things. SHes so terrified that she can't do it. Even while one of the he-men are slowly being eaten alive by one of them, screaming in pain, she stands there frozen. Thats the first big thing I had against her. She feels guilty. Her he-man tells her it wasn't her fault, shes brave and caring and bla bla bla. Bullcrap. ANyways she feels guilty one minute then she looks at her he-man and oh he's so sexy. She forgets completely aboutherguilt because she can't resist him, he overpowers her mind, her will, her very soul. (retch...rethc...vomit)And throughout the whole book the he-man is being...well a he-man. Ordering her about, being all domineering and whatnot. And she follows meekly behind him. I can't believe wmoen like to read this kind of garbage. Yes it's nice for the male character to be all he-manly and possesive but you want the female character to have some intelligence and fire, to fight back. Not some vapid, idiotic female that screws up all the time and is constantly overpowered by her lust for some man that her brain becomes putty. Come on authors! Give me something I can read and enjoy! Something with originality. Characters that are believable and unique. The only good thing I could say about this book is that it wasn't so bad that I wasn't able to finish it.
If you like Harlequin novels then this is the book for you!!! - Greywar - Texas, USA
Pros: The books in this series have a very interesting premise at their core. Really, it had the potential to be fairly epic in scope and interesting to boot. This is the *only* reason I didn't give this just a single star.
Cons: As good as Shannon's Butcher's husband Jim is at writing characters and penning beleiveable dialgue Shannon Butcher herself is terrible. The internal monologues of the character's thoughts and the dialogues between the characters are painfully bad. No one reacts to anything in these novels with a reaction that isn't dialed up to 11 on the Retard-o-meter.
Each interaction is as ham-fisted and over-the-top as it could be. Reading it feels like you are watching a play put on by 15 year old girls who think every line must be delivered as though it was taking place at the tension apex of the story, breathless, full of emotion even if it doesn't call for it, and utterly overwrought.
We are supposed to buy that a woman will tell a diner waitress she hardly knows all about her "prescient vision of her own death" but that when she sees the very man feautred in the vision walk into the cafe where the waitress works that she won't utter a peep about it? I wish this was the worst example of movie logic in these books but itt is far from it. Turning each page ends up being a chore.
These books actually make the Twilight series seem well crafted.
Truly awful. I haven't disliked a book series this much for as long as I can remember.
Jul 03, 2010 08:40:04
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