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My review is of the Audiobook version, not the print one. Recently, I've taken to listening to audiobooks on my commute as a preventative measure against the road rage our snarly traffic inspires. It works and this is one of the ones I picked up from my local library.

I've not read anything by this author before, so I don't have the knowledge of other reviewers on the other books and possible inconsistencies with other storylines. Until after I finished listening, I didn't even realize this was part of a series. I probably wouldn't have picked it up had I known figuring I would be missing nuances. But this was a solid stand-alone work and I enjoyed it a great deal.

The reader for this one is Holter Graham and it was a perfect voice match for the book. Very good. His way of speaking really brought the main character, Caillen, to life for me. As a matter of fact, the way Holter read the book and the way the character spoke really did remind me of the character, Malcom Reynolds, from "Firefly". Sort of a sexy space cowboy vibe, if you will.

And that is not too far off from our protagonist. Caillen is a fighter whose entire life has been a battle to remain safe, feed himself and his family and keep his very interesting sisters out of trouble. They are poor...as in wondering if there is a next meal poor...for most of his life. Now one sister has married well and another is smuggling bad things for money while another battles lifelong health problems. Cai steps in, one more time, for the smuggling sister and is sentenced to death for his trouble.

As luck would have it, he receives a last second save by the father he didn't know he had...who happens to be an emporer. As he tries to meld into a new life as heir to his father he gets entangled with the daughter of another ruler, Desideria. Again by happenstance and again by stepping in where he shouldn't. What follows is their story as they fight to save/avenge their parents and stop dasterdly people from doing dasterdly deeds.

My opinion of this book is generally quite high. I enjoyed the fast pacing of the story and the main characters immensely. I liked Cai's friends a great deal and never felt the action was waning or got bored at any point. I'm not a romance novel kind of person but this was really a sort of space opera/romance amalgam that worked.

There are a couple of things that really did confuse or bother me though. First off, Cai has lifelong friends who are all princes or fabulously wealthy...so why would he ever have faced starvation? His sister is married to another fabulously wealthy man who also happens to be a founder of a major pirate organization...so why is he still scraping for bucks? Not that I think that our character would need to beg or be supported, but why would he be skeezing around the galaxy for jobs when he could easily tap those resources? It just didn't settle well for me and left me with this nagging feeling of "why"? I mean, we're talking about someone who fights to get anything. Perhaps knowing the other books in the series would have answered that for me.

Also the sex. Given that they are young and healthy, it's absolutely no surprise that they were preoccupied with thinking about it, but it was pretty pervasive and seemed to crop up at times that weren't exactly appropriate...like when bleeding and injured. There was one major sex scene in there and I admit I rolled up my windows during that so no one in traffic would hear what I was listening to and I was just a tad embarrassed. I guess that is the difference between reading and listening!

Overall this was a fun book to listen to. Didn't require intense concentration to keep engaged and was full of fun and irreverant banter that made the commute quite enjoyable. It wasn't the kind of audiobook that made me sit in the car after getting home just to get to the end of a chapter, but I thoroughly enjoyed it while in motion.

Recommended for space opera or romance buffs for a light read (or listen).


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Born of Shadows The League Series Book 4 edition by Sherrilyn Kenyon Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Caillen Dagan has spent his life taking care of his sisters and getting them out of one scrape or mess or another, so when his sister needs helps he thinks nothing of coming to her aid. It never occurs to him that he might end up with a death sentence on his head. A last second stay of execution turns his world upside down, when he finds out he is not who he always thought he was, and now must adjust to a new life and a new role. Good thing he has friends in high places to help him through it.

Desideria is a bodyguard for the Queen, her mother, but she has much to prove, since her father was not of their planet, she is looked at as less of a warrior. When she overhears a plot to kill her and her mother, no one believes her, until she is attacked and Caillen comes to her rescue, only problem, she jumps to help him in the fight and they end up in an escape pod, only to be later labeled as the murder's of their parents.

Now they must work together, with a few good friends of Caillen's to uncover the plot, and figure out who is out to frame them both and how it all is connected. Especially since they had never meet before that day. At the same time, Caillen and Desideria find themselves falling for each other.

Travel back to the future world of Sherrilyn Kenyon and The League, and those ever rogue good guys, the Sentella. I have to say that this is probably one of my all time favorite series, at this point I am even thinking about going back and rereading the beginning books. It is just that I love the world that the author developed the idea of this League and this band of rogues that need to police it and take care of things no one else can.

You will again see favorite characters from the first two book, since this book goes back to the first generation again.
I'm a big sci-fi fantasy fan but this is the first book I've ever read by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I was very surprised to find that the plot seemed to take a backseat to the romance aspect of the novel. As another reviewer pointed out there wasn't a lot of sex. But the two lead characters couldn't seem to be in the same room without drifting off into long soliloquies about their feelings & physical responses to one another. The middle of the book dragged for me as the characters flashed back to earlier times sometimes reliving the same scenes repeatedly. Meanwhile the actual conversations struck me as somewhat rambling. I guess I was expecting more action & intrigue & less angst.

The storyline didn't strike me as very believable. I would agree with the reviewer that mentioned the abundant twists & turns at the end. I do enjoy a story that is not predictable but this just didn't seem believable. It wasn't even that the sci-fi aspect didn't ring true. It was more that the storyline seemed so convoluted & the characters behavior so uneven that I just didn't buy it.

Obviously there are many fans but I'm afraid that I'm just not one of them. I'm inclined to believe that this was written more with the romance reader than the sci-fi reader in mind.
My review is of the Audiobook version, not the print one. Recently, I've taken to listening to audiobooks on my commute as a preventative measure against the road rage our snarly traffic inspires. It works and this is one of the ones I picked up from my local library.

I've not read anything by this author before, so I don't have the knowledge of other reviewers on the other books and possible inconsistencies with other storylines. Until after I finished listening, I didn't even realize this was part of a series. I probably wouldn't have picked it up had I known figuring I would be missing nuances. But this was a solid stand-alone work and I enjoyed it a great deal.

The reader for this one is Holter Graham and it was a perfect voice match for the book. Very good. His way of speaking really brought the main character, Caillen, to life for me. As a matter of fact, the way Holter read the book and the way the character spoke really did remind me of the character, Malcom Reynolds, from "Firefly". Sort of a sexy space cowboy vibe, if you will.

And that is not too far off from our protagonist. Caillen is a fighter whose entire life has been a battle to remain safe, feed himself and his family and keep his very interesting sisters out of trouble. They are poor...as in wondering if there is a next meal poor...for most of his life. Now one sister has married well and another is smuggling bad things for money while another battles lifelong health problems. Cai steps in, one more time, for the smuggling sister and is sentenced to death for his trouble.

As luck would have it, he receives a last second save by the father he didn't know he had...who happens to be an emporer. As he tries to meld into a new life as heir to his father he gets entangled with the daughter of another ruler, Desideria. Again by happenstance and again by stepping in where he shouldn't. What follows is their story as they fight to save/avenge their parents and stop dasterdly people from doing dasterdly deeds.

My opinion of this book is generally quite high. I enjoyed the fast pacing of the story and the main characters immensely. I liked Cai's friends a great deal and never felt the action was waning or got bored at any point. I'm not a romance novel kind of person but this was really a sort of space opera/romance amalgam that worked.

There are a couple of things that really did confuse or bother me though. First off, Cai has lifelong friends who are all princes or fabulously wealthy...so why would he ever have faced starvation? His sister is married to another fabulously wealthy man who also happens to be a founder of a major pirate organization...so why is he still scraping for bucks? Not that I think that our character would need to beg or be supported, but why would he be skeezing around the galaxy for jobs when he could easily tap those resources? It just didn't settle well for me and left me with this nagging feeling of "why"? I mean, we're talking about someone who fights to get anything. Perhaps knowing the other books in the series would have answered that for me.

Also the sex. Given that they are young and healthy, it's absolutely no surprise that they were preoccupied with thinking about it, but it was pretty pervasive and seemed to crop up at times that weren't exactly appropriate...like when bleeding and injured. There was one major sex scene in there and I admit I rolled up my windows during that so no one in traffic would hear what I was listening to and I was just a tad embarrassed. I guess that is the difference between reading and listening!

Overall this was a fun book to listen to. Didn't require intense concentration to keep engaged and was full of fun and irreverant banter that made the commute quite enjoyable. It wasn't the kind of audiobook that made me sit in the car after getting home just to get to the end of a chapter, but I thoroughly enjoyed it while in motion.

Recommended for space opera or romance buffs for a light read (or listen).