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Review: Elizabeth’s Wolf by Lora Leigh
Filed in 2 Stars , Lora Leigh , Review , The Winged Lover Posted on December 2, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date: 30 June 2005
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Formats Available: Paperback, Ebook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon
Book Blurb:
Dash thought himself alone, a soldier, a fighting machine and no more.
Elizabeth made him realise he was a man.
Danger surrounds the woman his soul marked as his mate, death and blood and treachery that go beyond even his worst nightmares. But he will protect her and what she claims as her own. He was created to kill, trained to do it efficiently, and only a man bound to her, heart and soul, will have the strength to save Elizabeth and her prized possession.
My Thoughts:
You don’t really read Breeds books for their riveting plots, but for me Elizabeth’s Wolf was just too far-fetched in how she brought the pair together.
Dash is a soldier, a soldier who has been wounded very badly. He starts receiving letters from a little girl in a school program. Cassie writes to Dash telling her about her life, about her mother, her troubles and her search for a new daddy as she doesn’t have one. Through a brief, two line description of Cassie’s mother, Dane falls in love with her.
After being on the run for the past two years Elizabeth is running out of steam both physically and mentally, and when Dash walks into the restaurant she’s sitting in with her daughter and introduces himself, she goes with him.
For me, this storyline was just a little too off with the pixies, if I had been on the run from criminals for the past two years and had no trust in anyone, no way would I trust a guy who had just walked into a random restaurant I had picked to eat at after tracking me for the past few weeks. I would not get in his car with my baby and go off with him. And yet Elizabeth, the strong willed, stubborn woman did.
Like I said, you don’t read Breeds for the plot and although this plot was too stretched for my tastes the sex as always is good, even though Leigh took it a little too far in this aspect as well. I will spare the details of the nitty gritties, but there are certain things in certain areas of one’s life and ones anatomy that just don’t work like that regardless of the person on the other ends DNA.
And then there was the shaving scene. There is not much in this world that will make me cringe, and this raised the bad kind of goose bumps. Not only would I be monumentally embarrassed to have someone shave me, let alone my lover, but I would also be inconsolably enraged at the gall my lover would have to even attempt doing such a thing, and for those who haven’t caught on yet; he wasn’t shaving under her arms…
Elizabeth’s Wolf is good in a sense if you want to use it for dirty smutty relief, but if you’re going in there for a good story I really suggest you don’t waste the time or money. I will not warn you off the rest of the Breed’s books though just because this one for me was a flop. I will continue the series, mainly because I need my occasional dosages of smut relief.
I give Elizabeth’s Wolf 2 out of 5 Bookies
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Thanks for the review. I don't think this book is one that I want to read.
I actually think this book was the strongest pre NY published Breed books. I think the romance was pretty developed compared to the other EC books but I do like the heat/love scenes but the strongest breed books is when Lora Leigh moved to NY. I think they were more fleshed out and developed although I am not keen on the last few books.