
Love Spell - Love Spell
Release date: 2004-07-01
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Lynsay Sands
Romance, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Romance: Modern, Fiction / Romance / General, Romance - General, Science Fiction - General, Romance - Adult, Romance - Contemporary, Romance - Fantasy, Romance & Sagas




This book is just ok. It's kind of a letdown after some of the other Lynsay Sands' books. It really needed an editor. It's too long and drags on in parts, but in other parts it needed to be more detailed and longer. There isn't a mystery or whodoneit in this book like there is in some of the others. It's Ms. Sands' third book in this series about the Argeneau vampires. It deals with Bastien and Terri. I had read some of the other books in the series further into it, so I knew who both characters were. I was interested in their book. I was disappointed. This book had two uninteresting minor characters in Vincent and Chris that were just annoying and wouldn't accept their minor role in the book. ;-) The two lead characters weren't exciting for me. I didn't really feel a connection. I think that it's not a great book like it could have been. I would recommend this book to others interested in the continuation of the series storylines but otherwise it's not a fascinating book. However, it is a very quick and easy read. Great beach book if you aren't looking for a lot.
I have really enjoyed the Argeneau family saga! I was looking forward to reading Bastien's story. Unfortunately - it was a big disappointment. Not going getting into the meat of the storyline as a lot of reviewers have described the plot (or rather lack thereof) rather well.
Other than the instant and powerful attraction between Terri and Bastien, the book had no oomph and it was terribly flat. As one reviewer aptly mentions, the only half hearted attempts at humor come from Vincent's biting Bastien's housekeeper and Chris - Kate's editor, whose constant bad luck gets him into "a series of unfortunate events" and constant whining make him a royal pain in the arse.
TALL DARK AND HUNGRY - seems to have been written by a completely different author. The book lacks the usual intensity in Sand's previous novels and it's a long and tedious narration (mostly nonsense) about Bastien and Terri dealing with a bunch of snafus pertaining to his brother's upcoming nuptials. Trivial and mundane details are given unnecessary importance and there is a lot of yammering and blathering about menial and mundane stuff that frankly you don't even want to read about!
SPOILER!!! To add to the disappointment - we have to read the YAWN YAWN "terrible misunderstanding" Terri and Bastian have. Yes, we could have done without that too.
While this book reminds me of the book that got me started on the series
my personal favorite of the series Single white vampire it is more of a
repeat but without the laughs. Bastien and Terri fall in love during the
week before Lucern wedding, Chirs Keys is there cause a toliet fell on him through the bathroom ceiling of the apartment. Thomas cause he is acting in a musical. While it introduced more family memebers it was more or the same story line come on two family members already met during wedding perparations both Lissi's Ettiene with Rachel she attended Lissi's wedding shower, and Kate with Lucern she arrived just in time to attend Lissi's wedding with Lucern while pestering him about
publicity stuff. While wedding are surpose to be romanic it would have
been nice to have more change in how they met. Same trying to be humorous by having Keyes react to Bastien being naked before him as Lucern was in single white vampire, same happy ending. Read when you feel like a light read.