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3.66 AVERAGE
I didn't enjoy this book and, unfortunately, I have a problem dropping a book in the middle. I think there were more than editing problems. There were consistency problems, random things just thrown in out of nowhere and I'm really tired of the guy who will screw anything in a skirt going crazy with jealousy when any man from the woman's past shows up. I think I'm going to have to give up on Lora Leigh.
So, I swore off Lora Leigh with the last book I read, Secret Sins. It was just so terrible, so sloppy, I could not imagine picking up another. I was plowing through my TBR pile (really a mountain) and found this book buried somewhere. As long as I already had the book, I figured I would read it. The good news is that it was much better than Secret Sins. The not so good news is that it is still not very good. Nothing held me, things were repeated over and over and over and over. This should have been about 200 pages, and it would have been much better. Normally these sorts of books take me a couple days to read. This took a month. I kept putting it down and not really caring about picking it up again. Lora, I know I came back, but this time I think we are really over.
Was slow starting and I did not read the first book, I didnt realize there was one before. But definately some good plots/scenes in the book and I of course have to read the next one to see what happens. All in all a good, not great read.
I've been a Lora Leigh fan for many years so I know what to expect from her as a reader when it comes to her writing style. This book was just as good as any of her others in plot, characterizations, settings, and especially sex scenes. Unfortunately, the line editor for this one should be hanging his/her head in shame. There are so many glaring errors I almost put down the book. It was horrible in how obvious the errors were, especially when I saw the publisher is St. Martin's Press. I've come to expect professionalism from them and this book was definitely not in that category. It was as bad as some unedited self-pubbed work I've read.
Overall, if you like Lora Leigh you'll like this story. However, you might want to read the first book in this trilogy. I didn't and there were parts of this book where it might have clarified things a little. You don't have to read the first book to enjoy this one, but you'll definitely have to read the third to get the end of the story.
Overall, if you like Lora Leigh you'll like this story. However, you might want to read the first book in this trilogy. I didn't and there were parts of this book where it might have clarified things a little. You don't have to read the first book to enjoy this one, but you'll definitely have to read the third to get the end of the story.
My review I wrote for openbooksociety
http://openbooksociety.com/article/deadly-sins-the-callahans-lora-leigh-obs-book-review/
http://openbooksociety.com/article/deadly-sins-the-callahans-lora-leigh-obs-book-review/
Second in The Callahans, a.k.a., Heroes and Heartbreakers, romantic suspense series revolving around three men, cousins, who are targeted by the ruling clique in Corbin County. The couple focus is on Logan Callahan and Skye O'Brien.
My Take
Well, it's better than the first installment, Midnight Sins. Leigh created a lot of tension and question in that first story and in Deadly Sins, she's expanded upon it, providing yet more questions. And, yeah, I'm curious enough to want to know who or what is truly behind this vendetta against the Callahans. In the first story, Leigh had us believing that their parents' families wanted nothing to do with them. That those families would stop at nothing to destroy the three boys. Now, Leigh is throwing in a lot of confusion with contradictory remarks, or are they statements?, from the barons. It's certainly one way to ensure that her readers continue to read this series...
WTF does Saul Rafferty expect? Their entire lives, these boys have been treated like dirt, shunned, despised and now ol' Saul is upset that his grandson so obviously wants nothing to do with him?? This whole set-up is worse than a soap opera.
The whole premise of this series is both intriguing and damned irritating. There's some guy who fell in love with the woman who met David Callahan (one of the fathers). When she married David, this guy went gonzo.
The boys finally begin to have some allies in this damned county. About time.
The Story
The FBI has a cadre of agents positioned in and around Corbin County, including Skye O'Brien carefully placed in a house next door to Logan Callahan. She's there as bait. To draw out a killer. The one who seems to target any woman any of the cousins takes to bed. There's that little clause in the cousins' inheritances that needs to be got 'round.
Too weird. Grandfather Rafferty giving him a dog? There is just no way that Logan is taking that damned dog. Just another creature to love and find murdered. That's how it's always been. Any one of the boys loves or cares for something or someone and they find it destroyed. Even leaving the county didn't change a thing. So now the boys are back and they will take care of business.
That whole attitude of care for nothing is really hampering Skye's objective---taking Logan as a lover. It certainly isn't helping Bella, the little Chinese pug puppy, who wants nothing more than to lie at Logan's feet. Then someone tries to kidnap Skye and a sniper fires on Cami when one of her own betrays her.
And Ryan gets his kill order. In person. From a person he would never have suspected.
The Characters
Three cousins, Rafer (engaged to Cami Flannigan; see Midnight Sins), Crowe (who's in love with baker Anna Corbin), and Logan Callahan have had each other's backs since their parents died when all three were children. All three suffer horrible nightmares about those they loved and couldn't save.
Special Agent Skye O'Brien is an orphan who learned, in yet another soap opera-twist, that she was raised/trained to join some elite group. Amy Jefferson had been her foster sister and raised/trained in the same way; her foster father is the current governor of Colorado, Carter Jefferson and his wife Marla. Anna Corbin (the baker Crowe fancies is also John Corbin's granddaughter) and Amelia Sorenson (the county attorney's daughter and personal assistant and Cami's former best friend) are old schoolmates of Skye's. Amara Resnova became Skye's friend when Skye saved her from the DC Vigilante. Now Amara's father, Ivan Resnova, feels he owes her everything. A man who is probably a criminal, but certainly can hide anyone, anything.
Seems that Corbin County has a plethora of sheriffs as there's a Jeannine Thompson, an Archer, and a Tobias whom Leigh refers to as "sheriff". John Caine is a deputy sheriff; must be a busy man serving under all these sheriffs. Detective Ian Staton is from Boulder investigating Marietta Tyme's murder and all that DNA.
The "barons" are the cousins' grandparents. Doing their very best to destroy the boys. Or are they? Saul Rafferty is Logan's grandfather (Sam and Mina Callahan had been Logan's parents); Tandy is his grandmother and she raised dogs. John Corbin is Rafer's while Marshal Roberts is Crowe's grandfather.
The Sweetrock Slasher is a serial killer, in particular, of Amy Jefferson. There is a man who directs who the Slasher takes and how he treats them. Marietta Tyme's only crime was sleeping with Logan Callahan. Once. As was Jenny Perew.
Ryan Calvert plays an assassin. He's been undercover in Corbin County for over twelve years and his purpose for being there has finally arrived. John is his second-in-command.
The Cover
The cover is rather scary! It's a close-up of Logan staring out at us quite intently with his beautiful green eyes; it's that mouth of his that terrifies with its first impression of blood. Skye is standing behind him, looking over his shoulder.
My guess is that the title refers to the Deadly Sins perpetrated by the three boys' grandparents.
My Take
Well, it's better than the first installment, Midnight Sins. Leigh created a lot of tension and question in that first story and in Deadly Sins, she's expanded upon it, providing yet more questions. And, yeah, I'm curious enough to want to know who or what is truly behind this vendetta against the Callahans. In the first story, Leigh had us believing that their parents' families wanted nothing to do with them. That those families would stop at nothing to destroy the three boys. Now, Leigh is throwing in a lot of confusion with contradictory remarks, or are they statements?, from the barons. It's certainly one way to ensure that her readers continue to read this series...
WTF does Saul Rafferty expect? Their entire lives, these boys have been treated like dirt, shunned, despised and now ol' Saul is upset that his grandson so obviously wants nothing to do with him?? This whole set-up is worse than a soap opera.
The whole premise of this series is both intriguing and damned irritating. There's some guy who fell in love with the woman who met David Callahan (one of the fathers). When she married David, this guy went gonzo.
The boys finally begin to have some allies in this damned county. About time.
The Story
The FBI has a cadre of agents positioned in and around Corbin County, including Skye O'Brien carefully placed in a house next door to Logan Callahan. She's there as bait. To draw out a killer. The one who seems to target any woman any of the cousins takes to bed. There's that little clause in the cousins' inheritances that needs to be got 'round.
Too weird. Grandfather Rafferty giving him a dog? There is just no way that Logan is taking that damned dog. Just another creature to love and find murdered. That's how it's always been. Any one of the boys loves or cares for something or someone and they find it destroyed. Even leaving the county didn't change a thing. So now the boys are back and they will take care of business.
That whole attitude of care for nothing is really hampering Skye's objective---taking Logan as a lover. It certainly isn't helping Bella, the little Chinese pug puppy, who wants nothing more than to lie at Logan's feet. Then someone tries to kidnap Skye and a sniper fires on Cami when one of her own betrays her.
And Ryan gets his kill order. In person. From a person he would never have suspected.
The Characters
Three cousins, Rafer (engaged to Cami Flannigan; see Midnight Sins), Crowe (who's in love with baker Anna Corbin), and Logan Callahan have had each other's backs since their parents died when all three were children. All three suffer horrible nightmares about those they loved and couldn't save.
Special Agent Skye O'Brien is an orphan who learned, in yet another soap opera-twist, that she was raised/trained to join some elite group. Amy Jefferson had been her foster sister and raised/trained in the same way; her foster father is the current governor of Colorado, Carter Jefferson and his wife Marla. Anna Corbin (the baker Crowe fancies is also John Corbin's granddaughter) and Amelia Sorenson (the county attorney's daughter and personal assistant and Cami's former best friend) are old schoolmates of Skye's. Amara Resnova became Skye's friend when Skye saved her from the DC Vigilante. Now Amara's father, Ivan Resnova, feels he owes her everything. A man who is probably a criminal, but certainly can hide anyone, anything.
Seems that Corbin County has a plethora of sheriffs as there's a Jeannine Thompson, an Archer, and a Tobias whom Leigh refers to as "sheriff". John Caine is a deputy sheriff; must be a busy man serving under all these sheriffs. Detective Ian Staton is from Boulder investigating Marietta Tyme's murder and all that DNA.
The "barons" are the cousins' grandparents. Doing their very best to destroy the boys. Or are they? Saul Rafferty is Logan's grandfather (Sam and Mina Callahan had been Logan's parents); Tandy is his grandmother and she raised dogs. John Corbin is Rafer's while Marshal Roberts is Crowe's grandfather.
The Sweetrock Slasher is a serial killer, in particular, of Amy Jefferson. There is a man who directs who the Slasher takes and how he treats them. Marietta Tyme's only crime was sleeping with Logan Callahan. Once. As was Jenny Perew.
Ryan Calvert plays an assassin. He's been undercover in Corbin County for over twelve years and his purpose for being there has finally arrived. John is his second-in-command.
The Cover
The cover is rather scary! It's a close-up of Logan staring out at us quite intently with his beautiful green eyes; it's that mouth of his that terrifies with its first impression of blood. Skye is standing behind him, looking over his shoulder.
My guess is that the title refers to the Deadly Sins perpetrated by the three boys' grandparents.
This one is sooooo bad, it's actually kind of funny. It feels like it's written by a teenager, with lots of clamping pussies and hard dicks as the hero and heroine have sex again and again and again.
I had never heard of Lora Leigh before, and I should have done my research, as she's an erotica author. Although this book had a fairly innocuous cover and a typical romantic suspense plot description on the back and words "romantic suspense" on the spine itself, it is certainly not romantic suspense! It is erotica. The term mummy porn comes to mind. The focus here is on all the sex!
I'm no prude, but my romantic suspense tastes run more towards Harlequin/Mills & Boon Intrigue, or authors such as Karen Rose, Karen Robards, Sandra Brown, Linda Howard etc. That's not what I got here. This was, basically, porn. The dialogue between Skye O'Brien and Logan Callahan during the sex scenes wouldn't have been out of place in a pornographic movie. ("Yeah, baby, take my hard dick!") ("Oh, Logan, suck hard on my nipples!")
I found myself giggling more than once.
The plot is garbage. Something about a town that is desperate that the Callahan cousins don't get to claim their inheritance, so they've spent 12 years framing them for the murders of loved ones and one night stands, with the aim it runs them out of town for the required three years, or puts them in jail for that time, as well as eliminating the potential for any heirs.
The rest is a hodge-podge of tired old cliches and continual sex scenes. If Skye and Logan aren't having sex, they're thinking about nothing but that, that's for sure! The "plot" is all over the place, with characters shooting in and out of the proceedings, a highly resourced Russian American popping out of the woodwork who knows everything about everything, mysterious conspiracies and secretive government organisations....
By the end, nothing - absolutely nothing - is resolved and the characters are no closer to learning the truth than they were at the beginning. What's the point?
Juvenile and often embarrassing to read, it's hard to believe crap like this can actually get published.
I had never heard of Lora Leigh before, and I should have done my research, as she's an erotica author. Although this book had a fairly innocuous cover and a typical romantic suspense plot description on the back and words "romantic suspense" on the spine itself, it is certainly not romantic suspense! It is erotica. The term mummy porn comes to mind. The focus here is on all the sex!
I'm no prude, but my romantic suspense tastes run more towards Harlequin/Mills & Boon Intrigue, or authors such as Karen Rose, Karen Robards, Sandra Brown, Linda Howard etc. That's not what I got here. This was, basically, porn. The dialogue between Skye O'Brien and Logan Callahan during the sex scenes wouldn't have been out of place in a pornographic movie. ("Yeah, baby, take my hard dick!") ("Oh, Logan, suck hard on my nipples!")
I found myself giggling more than once.
The plot is garbage. Something about a town that is desperate that the Callahan cousins don't get to claim their inheritance, so they've spent 12 years framing them for the murders of loved ones and one night stands, with the aim it runs them out of town for the required three years, or puts them in jail for that time, as well as eliminating the potential for any heirs.
The rest is a hodge-podge of tired old cliches and continual sex scenes. If Skye and Logan aren't having sex, they're thinking about nothing but that, that's for sure! The "plot" is all over the place, with characters shooting in and out of the proceedings, a highly resourced Russian American popping out of the woodwork who knows everything about everything, mysterious conspiracies and secretive government organisations....
By the end, nothing - absolutely nothing - is resolved and the characters are no closer to learning the truth than they were at the beginning. What's the point?
Juvenile and often embarrassing to read, it's hard to believe crap like this can actually get published.
This book had some steamy scenes and I wasn't a fan of the ending because it was too unrealistic. However, I may pick up the 3rd book of the series to see how the main conflict with the family gets resolved.
Better than the first, but that’s not saying much. More loose ends than an unwound scarf.