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Hearths of Fire Red Starr Book Two edition by Kennedy Layne Romance eBooks

This book has so much potential that it's a sin it didn't receive thorough treatment from a competent editor. The characters are well drawn and relatable. The plot is a familiar one but has fresh perspective. Unfortunately, the author tries too hard to establish her military credibility by tossing in detailed descriptions of weapons and equipment that interest no one except a military expert - not the target audience of romantic suspense. Her time would have been much better spent paying attention to basic grammar (such as when to use "I" instead of "me", and correct verb tense) and word selections ("knifes" is NOT the plural of "knife" - it's "knives" and similar errors. So a potentially great book is merely a four star good one.


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Hearths of Fire Red Starr Book Two edition by Kennedy Layne Romance eBooks Reviews

I've been looking forward to her new series. Neal is a typical Kennedy hero - strong, handsome, engaging and with a good, strong heart. Charlotte is a terrific heroine - she's also strong, but vulnerable and sweet. The old love never died theme is there but not overpowering. The villains in this story are creepy, really creepy and while there are certain expectations of a Kennedy Layne book, this is so well written that I had to keep reading. I HAD to know how it was all going to go down.

Thanks, Kennedy for another winner!
Charolette and Mandy lost their parents when they were very young. Charolette continued to run her mother's book store in their home town and broke off her engagement to her long time love Neal. Eight years have passed from that time and each had gone with their lives. Mandy is now a 17 year old high school student, who is starting a relationship with the son of a cult leader. Charolette is getting worried that this boyfriend has to much control over her sister and calls Neal to ask for his help in talking to her sister. Neal is part of a non government group that does hostage rescue. He requests a weekend off to go back to his home town to see what the situation really is. The events unfolding from his returning home are the story of a lost love, extremist cult activities and new beginnings.
I really wanted to like this book. I thought the plot had potential but I just couldn't get past my dislike for the heroine. I love a good second chance romance when it's done well but this one just wasn't. Charlotte called her former fiancée when she is worried that her sister is getting involved with a cult. He's a former Seal and has just joined a Crisis Response Team but he drops everything to rush to her side to help. Charlotte just wasn't likeable to me. She is desperate so she calls her ex-fiancée who has the expertise to help her but then she doesn't listen to him. She's stubborn, makes bad decisions, and breaks her promises. In fact although she says she left him because she loved him the fact that she stood him up at the altar is pretty hard to get past. I got her reasons for breaking up with him but not the way she did it. She doesn't show any compassion or empathy for him or what she put him through and several times has thoughts like "well I did what was best and it wasn't easy for me". In fact it seemed all Charlotte was about was what was best for Charlotte.

I'm not sure what the hero saw in her. Apparently he found her need for control cute. She never really apologizes for leaving him at the alter and continues to contend she made the right decision. She says she trusts him but her actions state otherwise and he just puts up with it. Then there's the sex (a lot of it) and although I usually really like a dirty-talking hero it just didn't work here. Maybe it's because he kept trying to convince both of them that it was just sex with no emotions involved.

Overall, I was pretty disappointed in this book. I hope it was just this heroine I didn't like and so I will try one more book before giving up on this series.
The plot shows promise former fiancée of a Seal needs him with the other in his newly-formed crisis response team to rescue her sister and the city from a cult. There was so much to like in the idea, but the author populates the book with unbelievable characters. I kept reading until the final straw -- a totally unbelievable plot twist.
The heroine is domineering, stubborn, willful, doesn’t keep promises, dumber than a door nail, lacks common sense – and doesn’t trust the hero to do what she called him there to do.* If she promises to do something, you may be sure that she won’t. She claims the heroine loved the hero but dumped him at the altar in the most embarrassing way possible. That doesn't sound like love to me; it sounds like passive hostility. I sincerely hope that the author is not patterning the heroine after herself. (I did not warm to her.)
The hero, a former Seal, is apparently intended to be an “Alpha Male”, but totally understands the heroine’s need to control and finds it cute. Really? Cause even I don’t find this desperate need to control everything cute, and I'm not even a man. Such control issues are actually a sign of immaturity. By the time the hero asks her “Don’t you trust me”, and the author says this is a rhetorical question, it should be clear that the heroine does not trust anyone and is rather egotistical..
Their relationship is not believable. But even worse than this, the author fundamentally misunderstands what a cult it, how it is formed and what type of people join it. A cult has a single, charismatic leader. The leader of the cult in this book is a husband and wife couple who are repulsive. The stated purpose is to “take over the world”, but the steps shown are merely those to isolate the group which is consistent with a religious cult rather than a militaristic cult. Nor is there any militaristic training or expertise shown in the actions described in the book. How is this cult planning on taking over the world? Even more interesting would be why they wanted this, since they mostly seem to want to isolate themselves.
The final straw for me was the idea that a life-long friend of the heroine helped the cult snatch the heroine. This device works to put the heroine herself in peril, but does not square with the author’s portrait of the townspeople as disliking, distrusting, and fearing the cult.
All in all, a waste of time, money, and a good plot concept.

*Normally I prefer to give examples with conclusions, but in this case it would make the review too long.
This book has so much potential that it's a sin it didn't receive thorough treatment from a competent editor. The characters are well drawn and relatable. The plot is a familiar one but has fresh perspective. Unfortunately, the author tries too hard to establish her military credibility by tossing in detailed descriptions of weapons and equipment that interest no one except a military expert - not the target audience of romantic suspense. Her time would have been much better spent paying attention to basic grammar (such as when to use "I" instead of "me", and correct verb tense) and word selections ("knifes" is NOT the plural of "knife" - it's "knives" and similar errors. So a potentially great book is merely a four star good one.