Scan barcode
heatheray's review against another edition
5.0
Dear Julia,
I just read Rogue.
I freaking love you.
Love, Heather
^^ I sent that to Julia on FB after I finished reading Rogue last night. If I wasn’t such a wordy person I could totally leave that as my review. It sums up my feelings perfectly.
I loved Rogue.
I knew going in that this was going to cause me a bit less emotional turmoil than Mentor and Knight did but still it was just as fantastic as every other book in this series.
When the book starts, Sharon is in Decadence, the BDSM club owned by Derek Carter. She is there undercover on a case and she is trying to give the appearance that she is a domme. She drove me crazy in the beginning. Hello, have you not Julie’s books? Sharon, your assumptions about BDSM, doms, and subs are all wrong.
I have to admit. When I first started with The Impossible Trilogy, I made the same snap judgments as Sharon did about the BDSM lifestyle. That is one of the reasons I love Julia Sykes’s books. She takes you in and makes you understand that there is something deeper than wanting pain or wanting to give pain. That there was more to is than just sadism and masochism. Sure I had read FSOG like almost every other female on the industrialized planet but those books didn’t explain it like Julia does.
There is a give and take, there is protecting and caring, there is something that a sub gives a dom, not just the dom controlling the sub. Honestly, when you delve into it, the relationship between a true dom and sub is a beautiful thing. I don’t get that feeling from other books about BDSM. In other books it is about one controlling the other, or one getting off on receiving pain. Other books just aren’t on the same level emotionally as Julia’s books.
I am not going to give anything away, I am just going to say that this is just another perfect example of Julia Sykes’s amazing work. I loved Derek. I loved Sharon. I loved Derek and Sharon together. Watching Sharon start to understand herself, the lifestyle, her friends even was amazing.
Rogue moved fast, hit hard, and was just as sexy as the rest of the series. I have gotten to the point where I sometimes skim over sex scenes. Sometimes it feels like after you have read 1000 of them, you have read them all. There has to be some kind of emotional growth, a new understand that blooms, something that makes me slow down and read every single word during a sexual encounter in a book anymore. That is how it was for me with Rogue. No cheesy unrealistic sayings that make you roll your eyes thrown in to describe body parts, no overly alpha cave man behavior, it was just beautiful. Every single scene.
Julia, you have knocked it out of the park again. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series!
Thank you so much for sending me a copy of Rogue! It was amazing and I loved it!
I just read Rogue.
I freaking love you.
Love, Heather
^^ I sent that to Julia on FB after I finished reading Rogue last night. If I wasn’t such a wordy person I could totally leave that as my review. It sums up my feelings perfectly.
I loved Rogue.
I knew going in that this was going to cause me a bit less emotional turmoil than Mentor and Knight did but still it was just as fantastic as every other book in this series.
When the book starts, Sharon is in Decadence, the BDSM club owned by Derek Carter. She is there undercover on a case and she is trying to give the appearance that she is a domme. She drove me crazy in the beginning. Hello, have you not Julie’s books? Sharon, your assumptions about BDSM, doms, and subs are all wrong.
I have to admit. When I first started with The Impossible Trilogy, I made the same snap judgments as Sharon did about the BDSM lifestyle. That is one of the reasons I love Julia Sykes’s books. She takes you in and makes you understand that there is something deeper than wanting pain or wanting to give pain. That there was more to is than just sadism and masochism. Sure I had read FSOG like almost every other female on the industrialized planet but those books didn’t explain it like Julia does.
There is a give and take, there is protecting and caring, there is something that a sub gives a dom, not just the dom controlling the sub. Honestly, when you delve into it, the relationship between a true dom and sub is a beautiful thing. I don’t get that feeling from other books about BDSM. In other books it is about one controlling the other, or one getting off on receiving pain. Other books just aren’t on the same level emotionally as Julia’s books.
I am not going to give anything away, I am just going to say that this is just another perfect example of Julia Sykes’s amazing work. I loved Derek. I loved Sharon. I loved Derek and Sharon together. Watching Sharon start to understand herself, the lifestyle, her friends even was amazing.
Rogue moved fast, hit hard, and was just as sexy as the rest of the series. I have gotten to the point where I sometimes skim over sex scenes. Sometimes it feels like after you have read 1000 of them, you have read them all. There has to be some kind of emotional growth, a new understand that blooms, something that makes me slow down and read every single word during a sexual encounter in a book anymore. That is how it was for me with Rogue. No cheesy unrealistic sayings that make you roll your eyes thrown in to describe body parts, no overly alpha cave man behavior, it was just beautiful. Every single scene.
Julia, you have knocked it out of the park again. I cannot wait to read the next book in the series!
Thank you so much for sending me a copy of Rogue! It was amazing and I loved it!
si0bhan's review
4.0
Rogue is the third book in the Impossible series by Julia Sykes, and it’s yet another wonderful read. In fact, had I not already been addicted to this series Rogue would have guaranteed I was.
Before starting Rogue I was a wee bit disappointed, if I’m honest. In Savior I came to really enjoy a certain character and had hoped his story would be next. When I found out Rogue followed a different character the disappointment kicked in. Sure, I was interested in this story, but I was desperate to find out more about a certain male I’d fallen in love with.
As soon as I started Rogue, I quickly forgot about the story I had been hoping for. Rogue gripped me from the start, and I was addicted throughout. As with all the Julia Sykes books I have read, Rogue was an incredibly hot read. I fell in love with the chemistry between the characters and loved every moment of their interaction. I loved watching as they developed throughout the story, loved watching the way things changed between them, and could not get enough.
The only thing I expected a bit more of was the overarching storyline. Rogue works perfectly fine as a standalone, but in relation to the Impossible series I do not feel as though this one added as much as it could of. In many ways, I feel as though this opened up things, introduced us to things that will come back to us in the later books, without really moving us forward that much. The romantic suspense element was fun, but I had hoped the main storyline would have moved forward a bit more than it did.
Overall, Rogue was another great read in the Impossible series. I’m now more desperate than ever to dive into Knight.
Before starting Rogue I was a wee bit disappointed, if I’m honest. In Savior I came to really enjoy a certain character and had hoped his story would be next. When I found out Rogue followed a different character the disappointment kicked in. Sure, I was interested in this story, but I was desperate to find out more about a certain male I’d fallen in love with.
As soon as I started Rogue, I quickly forgot about the story I had been hoping for. Rogue gripped me from the start, and I was addicted throughout. As with all the Julia Sykes books I have read, Rogue was an incredibly hot read. I fell in love with the chemistry between the characters and loved every moment of their interaction. I loved watching as they developed throughout the story, loved watching the way things changed between them, and could not get enough.
The only thing I expected a bit more of was the overarching storyline. Rogue works perfectly fine as a standalone, but in relation to the Impossible series I do not feel as though this one added as much as it could of. In many ways, I feel as though this opened up things, introduced us to things that will come back to us in the later books, without really moving us forward that much. The romantic suspense element was fun, but I had hoped the main storyline would have moved forward a bit more than it did.
Overall, Rogue was another great read in the Impossible series. I’m now more desperate than ever to dive into Knight.
More...