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Summary: Lots of Fun
Review: This book is lots of fun to read. The world created is so rich in detail, that I can see, hear and smell it. I enjoyed the stubborn hero and heroine as they grew into people worthy of great love. The secondary characters are also three-dimensional -- I adored Zanth - the telepathic cat. I am sure that my cats often think the same way.This book has it all. It made me laugh out loud at times, while other times I felt frustrated by the characters' actions and still other times I felt like crying.
I recommend this book highly!
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Summary: Absolutely adored it!
Review: This book was a RWA Golden Heart award. I loved the futuristic world, I loved the Fam-Cat. It's such a brilliant idea carried out with heart and love. I love the flare - and especially intriques by Ruis the null. Robin Owens is a super new voice in romance fiction.
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Summary: Interesting premise, awkward follow-through
Review: This book wasn't bad. Interesting characters, nice love scenes. But there were some things I didn't like about it. First, I thought the writing was choppy - it didn't flow, and many of the scenes were too short. They were also somewhat repetitive. The author used the characters' ability to teleport (orb?) as a sort of shorthand to get them from one place to another. There was a lot of hand-to-hand combat, and it all kind of ran together. I never could figure out the purpose of the central fight scene - was it to give the hero and heroine a chance to make love between life-threatening sword fights (hey, how awkward is that?), or to show how good T'Ash was with a sword, or to show that he was no longer a street tough, or to set up the later revelation that he was now a responsible citizen interested in bettering society? I just wish that more space had been devoted to developing the relationship rather than let the events push it along. That said, this is a book that I've kept, rather than trade it in, and I will read the others in the series.
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Summary: Interesting premise, awkward follow-through
Review: This book wasn't bad. Interesting characters, nice love scenes. But there were some things I didn't like about it. First, I thought the writing was choppy - it didn't flow, and many of the scenes were too short. They were also somewhat repetitive. The author used the characters' ability to teleport (orb?) as a sort of shorthand to get them from one place to another. There was a lot of hand-to-hand combat, and it all kind of ran together. I never could figure out the purpose of the central fight scene - was it to give the hero and heroine a chance to make love between life-threatening sword fights (hey, how awkward is that?), or to show how good T'Ash was with a sword, or to show that he was no longer a street tough, or to set up the later revelation that he was now a responsible citizen interested in bettering society? I just wish that more space had been devoted to developing the relationship rather than let the events push it along. That said, this is a book that I've kept, rather than trade it in, and I will read the others in the series.
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Summary: One Path to Love
Review: This is a new genre for me but I thoroughly enjoyed this creative first novel. Ms. Owens used wondeful descriptive language that had me seeing clearly the world she created. It was easy to identify with Danith, the independent heroine, and enjoy her new found life and good fortune. T'ash was fun because he was not what I would call a typical hero. I would recommend this book for a fun read!
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Summary: Slow reading
Review: To me it just seemed hard to get into and very slow. The story got wonderful right at the end and I mean literally right at the end. I really enjoyed the premise of the book, just wish it wasn't such a slow reader.
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Summary: Dating Mayhem!
Review: True love, soul mates, heartmate - they are the same on Celta where a group of humans with psychic talents settled to escape persecution from Earth. Rand T'Ash is rough around the edges and to marry his Heartmate is his greatest desire. Rands profession is a jeweler (he is a very talented one) and he has made an incredible necklace for only one woman - Danith Mallow. The problems are that Danith can't see beyond their social differences and she feels unworthy because of her near null psychic talents. Ms Owens has written an interesting story. While Rand's ideas of courtship are humorous in a "he has no clue what he is doing" kind of fashion, I really felt that Danith was a little hard on him. Both have the common background of being orphans. Except Rand's family was murdered when he was a small boy and he survived. After living on the streets he had to fight his way back to reclaim his family name while lacking the social skills of others in his class. Because of his upbringing he was very straight forward, which I actually liked. For Danith, as an orphan her talents had been over looked and therefore not discovered. Rand helps her through discovering them and to get the necessary training so she could use them. This set them on equal status level and yet she still fought her attraction for him. Sadly for me, this became old. She wants to be with him, yet she doesn't. Rand has a familiar that was his only "family"; this added humor to the story. The way Zanth (the familiar) spoke and reacted to situations, I can see my own cats acting. And while it wouldn't be a romance without the couples having problems and hero taking control, because of Danith the couple didn't work for me. The world is fascinating and sounds like a growing community where everyone should have their place, but is starting to face the same social class issues that occur for us on Earth. Which is another reason Rand endeared himself to me because he was fighting to keep this from happening, where people just fall through the cracks for one reason or another. I would really be interested to read her future novels just to see what happens several years in the future with some of the kids from the street gangs. Also I found the fact that they use their psychic talents much as we use technology fascinating. I will read other books by Ms Owens as she has the ability to tell a wonderful story, but HEARTMATE was longer than I felt it needed to be.
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Summary: The cat was great!
Review: Well the cat Zanth was the one bright spot in this book. I laughed at what he said and did. The main characters of this book Rand T'Ash and Danith Mallow were boring to me. They seemed very self involved and really didn't seem to be loving of the other. I wish this book had been better. I liked some of the other secondary characters of the Holly brothers because they seemed more alive and spirited. There were some interesting sub plots but the author didn't really explore them which I think would have made the story better.
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