Sadly, would not recommend.Storms of Vision missed the mark for me. Problems:- Try to introduce to many characters at once. Not only confusing but lacked any attachment to any one character.-Didn't explain the history of the story all that well: Chosen Ones help save people from evil or the dev...
I liked the most of the character developement. I was honestly suprised by the bad guy and the story line was intriguing. I would have like to see more development between Rafe and Brooke besides flashbacks and arguments. the romance was ideally sweet but almost borderes on pity even though I d...
Utk karya yang ini gw bilang "lumayan" lah, ada bagian yg buat gw trs tertarik utk baca& ada jg bagian yg buat gw longkapin ke halaman berikutnya. Agak tidak nyambung antara judul dan latar belakang cerita, sama sinopsisnya juga rada "meleng" yah menurut gw.Hero digambarkan pada sinopsisnya itu s...
Lady’s companion Emma Chegwidden never expected to get caught up in the daring exploits of the notorious outlaw, The Reaper, while sojourning with her employer in a foreign country. But not only does her sensual encounters with the masked man challenge her heart, but she’s drawn to Englishman Mic...
Always within the social norms, extremely reserved lady's companion Miss Emma Chegwidden discovers her inner strength and courage after she accidentally hands her employer a 'gift' and ends up abandoned in a very dangerous land without a penny or friend.Enter an English peer, who has been a priso...
Prim and proper Victoria Cardiff does not believe in love. This is shocking because Victoria is, as one would guess, a woman, and women are obsessed with "true love." Her mother remarried some loser, and ever since then Victoria has been hell-bent on becoming an up-tight governess, entirely remov...
Very nicely written.This just gives more depth to the whole Wilder Family history.When I started reading this I already finished the whole series of the Chosen Ones. I really don't have any idea if this Darkness Chosen Novels is a spin-off from the Chosen Ones Novels or if it's the other way arou...
Victoria is good friends with Saber's sisters. She has always heard of the stories that Saber is a prince from a foreign land. She was not always sure if it was true. Then when she gets a job working in a foreign country, she sees Saber there and realizes that it is true. Saber is there to re...
Oh I *LIKED* this one. It walked the line of rapey at a couple of times, but did so successfully (imo). It didn't veer over into a "Holy hell why is she with him?!?", though it did almost veer into Stockholm Syndrome. ALMOST. BUT it didn't do either so I was happy. I liked the heroine, and she co...
International mystery, mad-hunt for a mad-man's last bottle of wine, which may just hold the rarest of jewels heisted during the Great Depression. A body is found, a pink diamond discovered. Eli's vineyards are once again budding for the new year's crop. His accountant had cleaned him out and fle...
Really excited about the premise of this book. And of course, as the final installment in the Chosen Ones series, I was looking forward to seeing the plot resolved.I liked the main characters (Aleksandr/Guardian and Charisma) but the plot was confusing. There was a LOT going on. Could have don...
"Chains of Fire" by Christina Dodd. Book 4 of The Chosen Ones series.Really liked this book. Samuel and Isabelle have a past which is hinted at throughout the series. In this book, we find out what that past is as we read the story of what is happening to them now.Samuel is a lawyer. He is al...
I like the works by this author, but I don't enjoy this book as I hoped.Gabriel is misled by his half-brother that Hannah is a villain, an angel-of-death nurse who might harm his ill mother. So Gabriel took the security job and watched her every movements, literally. While doing that, he also ...
"Storm of Shadows" by Christina Dodd. Book 2 in the Chosen Ones series.I liked this book. At first I was kind of annoyed with the main characters, Arron and Rosamund. In the beginning of the book, Arron comes off as very arrogant (ie: Rosamund doesn't give Arron the time of day when he's tryin...
Setting: Blythe, Washington - Cascade Mountains – Wilder Family homes in the forest; New York – Shea’s home, and Chosen Central – the Belows (tunnels and caves below) – Guardian’s Cave - Osgood’s Tower;Theme: Trial by fire to refine the character; facing ones fears; love – man for woman, man (and...
Good book The Chosen Ones are series of books similar but different than the Darkness Chosen.
Setting: cave revealed by melting iceberg in Andes, Chile; wilds/village/mystic crossroads of Raputye, Russia; 2 houses, 1 hospital of New York;Theme: good vs evil; sacrifice/paying for past mistakes; guilt; prophecy; love to unite; faith; duty; leadership; Characters:John Powell: Chosen, last gr...
Dodd is rare and different here as well by showing an attempt at industrial revolution that was made solely to keep the peasants on their land; and as in Castles in the Air, this isn't an easy endeavour, in Dodd's books monuments aren't finished at the end to general applaus - she doesn't write L...
A Knight to Remember is a book I'll remember. This is the second in the series and what a wild ride it was. Edlyn is the heroine whom we met in Once A Knight where she was being fostered by the heroine. The hero, Hugh, was also in that book being fostered as a knight. She was a girl of 17 and...
A sweet story of a Princess, one of three sisters actually, who escapes with her youngest sister from their war-torn, tiny kingdom after the death of the King, their father and the disappearance of their grandmother. Because of the deceit of a close advisor, the sisters are left to fend for thems...
*spoilers*I don’t like when authors start out having the main character be a child. It ruins them in my eyes. For example:She hated grandmamma. Hated her, hated her, hated her.Calling her grandma a dragon and repeating hate 3 times was just stupid. I get it; kids are prone to melodramatics and ta...
It's amazing how things change with time. I've read so many books that the ones that didn't stand out tend to fade. I re-read this book today after who knows how long and saw that my 3 star rating no longer applied. This book is definitely worth 5 stars or more. This is a romance novel that I...
ETA: I'm still shocked. I haven't pastede_in the incoherent rants I typed somewhere else and had intended to place around the one funny and countless awful quotes, so the quotes stand alone (below). Dodd must have intended "The Sheik" romance but this is the most awful non-con, see also final quo...
This story moves away from the Russians as the primary protagonist to a small country that France want to absorb, Moricadia. The story is one of revenge and the search for justice for the killing of a beloved brother. Jude, Earl of Huntington, has dedicated himself to bringing the people that k...
Eleanor de Lacy thinks she is helping out her beloved cousin Madeline when she agrees to temporarily switch places with her so Madeline can go fix one of her father's problems. But Eleanor has to go in Madeline's place to meet Madeline's new fiancee, who just won Madeline from her father in a ga...
Finally allowed myself to read this as a treat when I couldn't get through Beard. It started very promising and I just love the hero again - not only does she have the mose likable guys, they are even (body) types I can't stand and yet it doesn't matter. I think this was written before the great ...
This was a new author for me. Castles in the Air was also different to me because it was set in a time period I have never read before. It was just after the Crusades. I found it interesting to read something from that time period.I did enjoy this romance story. Juliana is told by the king th...
Overall Rating: 4.05 // Action: 3.0 / Emotion: 3.5 / Romance: 3.5 / Sensuous: 1.5 / Suspense: 3.5 // Historical Flavor: 4.5 // Laughter: 1 / Grins: 2 // Tears: 2 / Teary: 1Candle In The Window: 4.05:Although this was not the most exciting and emotionally touching medieval romance, Candle In The ...