Comments on: Review: Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:03:17 +0000

I am so upset because everyone love this book and this was a DNF for me. What was I missing?
I couldn’t stand Bowe and even thought I liked Mari, I felt they had no chemistry. Maybe the fact that Bowe couldn’t get over his dead mate, or who he thought was his dead mate? See I get confused so easily! *G*

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:04:22 +0000

Victoria, you aren’t the only one to notice the Snape vibe going on. When the cover first hit Amazon there was a lot of discussion on the livejournal romance readers list that there was a definite Alan Rickman vibe going on.
(We’ve decided that all romance novel audio books should be narrated by Rickman, by the way. Wouldn’t that be great?)

I liked this book better than Sebastian’s story, but not as well as Lachlain’s. But that has to do with my whole love for Lachlain than anything else. I was particularly fond of the part in this novel where Bowe saves Mari from scary humans–that rocked.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:39:40 +0000

Great review, Shuzluva! I’ve read quite a few reviews on this book and yours is the first one I’ve come across that shares my perspective of the quality of the story and characters. I agree with your observation that Ms. Cole has created an alpha male oriented world in which the females are clearly the core of the series. I appreciate Ms. Cole’s focus on the females and find it very satisfying to read female characters who never “take a backseat” to the alpha male characters. I am looking forward to the next book in this series that has definitely found a spot on my keeper shelf as well.

By: Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:39:24 +0000

The guy on the cover makes me think of Severus Snape; I think it’s the hair hanging in his face.

Yum.

I’m looking forward to reading this series; I enjoyed three of Cole’s historicals recently.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:27:09 +0000

I have a love/hate relationship with this series of books. There are things I really like about them, like the strong female characters which you mentioned, but the language really irks. All the female characters have to use this already dated too-cool-for-school lingo and oh-so-clever jokes and IMO it comes off as forced and trying too hard. Like the whole Nucking Futz thing- we used to say that when I was in Jr. High. Arghhh! These books could be so much better without trying to be cool.

Wow, I really unloaded there. I guess this bothered me more than I thought. Freak that I am, I will still keep buying this series though.