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 enlarge | Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: HQN Books
Category: Book
Buy Used: $12.90
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Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 157834
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 037377057X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373770571
ASIN: 037377057X
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Spine creasing, tear on bottom of spine, edge/corner wear, stamp inside, small drip stain on teaser page, crease on back cover near top corner. "P" written on spine
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 Not As Great As I Hoped October 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Extra crispy love story but a little soggy when it comes to the plot. Now don't get me wrong, I love alternate beauty meets the beast/sexy dragon shape shifter as much as any other girl but I found major flaws when it came to the main characters. Grace, our spunky heroin needed to get her priorities striate. She's searching for her lost brother and yet through out the book it seems all she wants to do is get laid. How could anyone think about sex when their only brother has disappeared? It kind of bothered me how one minute she's a proud, sassy, resourceful female and then the next she turns into a weak lovesick puppy who lust over a man who pretty much tells her `I`m going to do what I want to you when I want whether you like it or not.' and she answers by saying `Well okay'. Come on, show some dignity girl!
And then there's Darius, your average tragic hero. For three hundred years he shows no emotions whatsoever then suddenly in walks Grace then BAM! He's angry, sad, smiles and gets a hard-on all within the first five minutes of seeing her! Where's the development? The suspense? I know 90% of paranormal romance novels center around sex but come on! Give them a little time to develop their relationship first. By chapter four they were already all over each other so by the time their big love scenes came around the reward wasn't as gratifying as it should of been.
Boring conflict August 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read the description for this - dragons, vampires, Atlantis - and I was hooked into buying it. I'm sorry I did.
The hero is a guardian of Atlantis; the heroine is a human wondering around trying to find her brother. She stumbles into Atlantis, meets the hero, love at first sight, but! He's got to kill her because she found out the secret that Atlantis exists.
That's the conflict - he's got to do his duty and protect the secret. But I know that since it is a romance novel, he's not going to do it. The hero killing the heroine doesn't scream happy ending. The plot goes on and on, his dueling emotions drag out until I want to smack him. Then finally, three quarters the way through the book, he decides he can't do it. What a shocker, let me tell you.
The worldbuilding, the setting, the imaginative story were all wonderful. The conflict between the hero and the heroine ruined all that.
 A light Delight August 5, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A quick light and easy read, this delightful book has the story of the Dragons of Atlantis and a human woman who stumbles into their world.
Loved it! Great way to begin a new series May 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first book in the atlantis series and it is phenominal. I love the characthers. They are well developed together and individually Their interaction is funny and makes sense all the way through the novel. This is a great read and worth the money. My bet is you read it more than once. :)
 Good idea, but didn't work for me April 26, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had such expectations for this book, but unfortunately it did not deliver. Darius was intended to be this deadly assasin, a ruthless and extremely dangerous man/dragon and I just did not get that from his character AT ALL. He supposedly considers killing Grace, but author does not convey any sense of real danger or suspense. Even Grace herself was not too worried. They search for missing people while running out of time, but stop constantly to full around. And for 20 something virgin whose life (as well as the life of her brother) was in such danger-- all she really wants to do is have sex with Darius, how believable is that? In general, i dislike books when women can't "resist" the appeal of the hero, and throw themselves all over them despite any common sense. I also read "Jewel of Atlantis" by the same author and hated it, so this is it for me.
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