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pyschoprincess's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed the strong female inthis book and loved the story. The only thing that hung me up was how quickly the fell to each other and how well the "knew" each other after only a few hours
-M/F
-Hea
-wolfy/para
-will continue series
-hawt
-M/F
-Hea
-wolfy/para
-will continue series
-hawt
avid_reader_53's review against another edition
4.0
This book had some wonderful moments, a great alpha female, two hot sexy men, one, James, the father of the heroine, hope he gets his own hea, and the hero whose honor causes him to protect her from even his own desires until they reach their pack so she has a choice.
Alexandra Reilly finds out one morning that her father is a werewolf, and that she is going into heat. She is getting ready for her first change, and there rogue werewolves after her, some hoping to force her to mate with them, some trying to kill her because she was a half-breed.
Joshua Striker shows up just before the first attack, her father sends her off with him while he try to lead the rogues in a different direction from his daughter. Two days of running, fighting, having to kill hunters who are trying to wipe out the werewolves, other werewolves, including some from her father's pack, hiking through the woods - which Alex, as a city girl, has never been in before - they finally meet up with Jousha's brothers and James and to the pride and astonishment of Joshua she proves herself at every turn, never complaint and always ready to move forward.
A good book, some really slow bits, but for the most part the story line kept moving forward toward the the characters goal of reaching their pack compound, getting rid of the traitors, and for Alex, getting a good hot shower and a seriously good night sleep.
Alexandra Reilly finds out one morning that her father is a werewolf, and that she is going into heat. She is getting ready for her first change, and there rogue werewolves after her, some hoping to force her to mate with them, some trying to kill her because she was a half-breed.
Joshua Striker shows up just before the first attack, her father sends her off with him while he try to lead the rogues in a different direction from his daughter. Two days of running, fighting, having to kill hunters who are trying to wipe out the werewolves, other werewolves, including some from her father's pack, hiking through the woods - which Alex, as a city girl, has never been in before - they finally meet up with Jousha's brothers and James and to the pride and astonishment of Joshua she proves herself at every turn, never complaint and always ready to move forward.
A good book, some really slow bits, but for the most part the story line kept moving forward toward the the characters goal of reaching their pack compound, getting rid of the traitors, and for Alex, getting a good hot shower and a seriously good night sleep.
atheresa's review
1.0
DNF. Repetitive writing. Lackadaisical plot. Strong but clueless heroine. Good hero. No chemistry, no spark between them.
fromjesstoyou's review
4.0
"4 out of 5 stars!! I saw this book recommended to me on Amazon for a while, and I'm soo happy that I finally decided to read it!! It was an entertaining & sweet book! I loved..."
Check out my review and a TEASER here: http://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2010/08/feasted-on-legacy-series-book-1.html
Check out my review and a TEASER here: http://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2010/08/feasted-on-legacy-series-book-1.html
readercecc6's review
3.0
2.5 stars rounded up because I liked the heroine.
Alexandra Riley's a half breed. Her dad's a really successful mechanic, protector of their neighborhood in the ghettos of Chi-town, a widower, a werewolf, and a sexy ass FILF (Ha FILTH, Get it? Because lusting after people's dad's is.. Oh never mind). James Riley is seriously hot. How do I know? Well, the way he took care of the people on his block - from the baker to the prostitutes; the way he raised his daughter to be such a kick ass chick who not only knows how to protect herself and the people she loves, but more importantly, knows when to accept help when she needs it; the way he anticipated every outcome and prepared for everything; the way he handled shit; the way he spoke in concise sentences instead of droning on and on; and his swagger (because men like James Riley never just walk, they absolutely always swagger).
See, that's how you write a good hero. You show us, and that's why I'm in book lust over James. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for the actual Hero of this book, Joshua Striker. Almost everything I know about him was shoved down my throat.
The author spent a good 3 pages or so telling us how complicated, enigmatic, multilayered, and not handsome but good looking he is.
"His shaggy black hair fell to his shoulders, tempting a woman to brush it back, to try to tame it. She could sense the wildness lurking just beneath the controlled surface. This was a complex man with many layers.” Really? You can tell that much just from hair? Well fuck if i don't feel stupid for wasting all this time trying to understand people through their actions and words when all I had to do was learn to read hair.
“Not that Joshua was cold blooded or cruel. He was the exact opposite. Joshua lived by a code of right and wrong. His goal was to protect his people and he’d do whatever it took to do so. He didn’t go looking for trouble, but he wouldn’t walk away from it.” She knew all this after spending half a morning with him where they barely spoke. Yes, he killed for her but how did she manage to get all that from him breaking someone's neck?
“Men would fear him even as they wanted to be him and women would just want to be with him." This one's too easy, I almost felt bad putting it up on GR.
"Joshua was an enigma. One minute amorous, the next totally controlled, seemingly almost indifferent. The man had more layers than an onion and she was determined to get under his skin.” From what I remember about guys who ran hot and cold, they were fucking with your head and called Assholes or Players or just guys you stayed away from if you had any sense. And girls who did that were called teases, so I don't know about this enigmatic onion business. Maybe I've been out of the dating scene for too long... Nope, that's not it.
hand·some
ˈhansəm/
adjective
adjective: handsome; comparative adjective: handsomer; superlative adjective: handsomest
1.
(of a man) good-looking.
synonyms: good-looking, attractive, striking, gorgeous; More
antonyms: ugly
“His face wasn’t handsome, but strong and compelling.”
“It was pure pleasure to watch Joshua move. The man was incredibly good looking in a rough sort of way.”
And last quote, I promise.
“Joshua tongued her turgid nipple and sucked it into his mouth.”
Now, I know this is my fault for having such a shitty vocab but jeebusss.. Turgid?? No idea what it means ,but it sounds like a nasty infection.
This sounds like a really negative review, and it mostly is.. But honestly, the book wasn't all bad. The sex scenes were a 6.5-7 outta 10. Daddyo, James Riley, was smokin hot if you like that whole salt n pepper thing, which me totally likey. The action scenes were pretty good. But what pushed this from being a page skimmer/did not finish to a hang on until the very end, was the heroine. Alexandra Riley, while falling prey to the list of female protags who think entirely too much (too much inner musings to wade through and not enough actual shit going down to keep those of us with short attention spans interested), is really well balanced. Like I said earlier, she knows how to defend herself and fight alongside the alpha males in her life but she's not too prideful to accept help when needed. She also never, not once, exhibited any signs of the TSTL heroine. She never ran from her allies, nor did she get kidnapped (I once read a book where the heroine got herself kidnapped 3+ times! IN ONE BOOK). She didn't make the reader spend half the book wanting to strangle her for being an obstinate bitch in regards to her feelings towards the hero, in fact she was the one who knew very early on what/who they wanted and never wavered.
All in all, this was an entertaining read. It can easily be a 4-4.5 star read if someone went and deleted all of the unnecessary inner dialogue and replaced it with more meat (the hero interacting with his pack would've been nice to witness).
Alexandra Riley's a half breed. Her dad's a really successful mechanic, protector of their neighborhood in the ghettos of Chi-town, a widower, a werewolf, and a sexy ass FILF (Ha FILTH, Get it? Because lusting after people's dad's is.. Oh never mind). James Riley is seriously hot. How do I know? Well, the way he took care of the people on his block - from the baker to the prostitutes; the way he raised his daughter to be such a kick ass chick who not only knows how to protect herself and the people she loves, but more importantly, knows when to accept help when she needs it; the way he anticipated every outcome and prepared for everything; the way he handled shit; the way he spoke in concise sentences instead of droning on and on; and his swagger (because men like James Riley never just walk, they absolutely always swagger).
See, that's how you write a good hero. You show us, and that's why I'm in book lust over James. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for the actual Hero of this book, Joshua Striker. Almost everything I know about him was shoved down my throat.
The author spent a good 3 pages or so telling us how complicated, enigmatic, multilayered, and not handsome but good looking he is.
"His shaggy black hair fell to his shoulders, tempting a woman to brush it back, to try to tame it. She could sense the wildness lurking just beneath the controlled surface. This was a complex man with many layers.” Really? You can tell that much just from hair? Well fuck if i don't feel stupid for wasting all this time trying to understand people through their actions and words when all I had to do was learn to read hair.
“Not that Joshua was cold blooded or cruel. He was the exact opposite. Joshua lived by a code of right and wrong. His goal was to protect his people and he’d do whatever it took to do so. He didn’t go looking for trouble, but he wouldn’t walk away from it.” She knew all this after spending half a morning with him where they barely spoke. Yes, he killed for her but how did she manage to get all that from him breaking someone's neck?
“Men would fear him even as they wanted to be him and women would just want to be with him." This one's too easy, I almost felt bad putting it up on GR.
"Joshua was an enigma. One minute amorous, the next totally controlled, seemingly almost indifferent. The man had more layers than an onion and she was determined to get under his skin.” From what I remember about guys who ran hot and cold, they were fucking with your head and called Assholes or Players or just guys you stayed away from if you had any sense. And girls who did that were called teases, so I don't know about this enigmatic onion business. Maybe I've been out of the dating scene for too long... Nope, that's not it.
hand·some
ˈhansəm/
adjective
adjective: handsome; comparative adjective: handsomer; superlative adjective: handsomest
1.
(of a man) good-looking.
synonyms: good-looking, attractive, striking, gorgeous; More
antonyms: ugly
“His face wasn’t handsome, but strong and compelling.”
“It was pure pleasure to watch Joshua move. The man was incredibly good looking in a rough sort of way.”
And last quote, I promise.
“Joshua tongued her turgid nipple and sucked it into his mouth.”
Now, I know this is my fault for having such a shitty vocab but jeebusss.. Turgid?? No idea what it means ,but it sounds like a nasty infection.
This sounds like a really negative review, and it mostly is.. But honestly, the book wasn't all bad. The sex scenes were a 6.5-7 outta 10. Daddyo, James Riley, was smokin hot if you like that whole salt n pepper thing, which me totally likey. The action scenes were pretty good. But what pushed this from being a page skimmer/did not finish to a hang on until the very end, was the heroine. Alexandra Riley, while falling prey to the list of female protags who think entirely too much (too much inner musings to wade through and not enough actual shit going down to keep those of us with short attention spans interested), is really well balanced. Like I said earlier, she knows how to defend herself and fight alongside the alpha males in her life but she's not too prideful to accept help when needed. She also never, not once, exhibited any signs of the TSTL heroine. She never ran from her allies, nor did she get kidnapped (I once read a book where the heroine got herself kidnapped 3+ times! IN ONE BOOK). She didn't make the reader spend half the book wanting to strangle her for being an obstinate bitch in regards to her feelings towards the hero, in fact she was the one who knew very early on what/who they wanted and never wavered.
All in all, this was an entertaining read. It can easily be a 4-4.5 star read if someone went and deleted all of the unnecessary inner dialogue and replaced it with more meat (the hero interacting with his pack would've been nice to witness).
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