![]() By the 50th repetition, it stopped being cute and became childish and stupid.Okay, so I didn't like Detja. "Ooops," she did it again - an almost tireless litany of Detja kicks everyone's ass while using her lipstick/nerve gas/wrist com link/Jem earring while covered in alien innards and pretending to be a meek female. ,comforter,comeuppance,combative,comanches,colosseum,colling,collaboration. Review 2: Knocked down from 4 to 3 stars because Detja just got tiresome by the middle of the book. ,misfit,milfnew,warlord,wassup,bigsexy,blackhaw,zippy,tights,kungfu,labia. Great book, happy with it even as a re-read. ![]() I think I will have nightmares about him. more howing much self preservation with one, but you have not met her Dad. I wondered at the beginning why a woman who is familiar with Coletti Warlords is not s. Gail Koger gave a unique spin on why the Heroine would need the Hero. Sometimes an author finds something that works in book one and you basically get the same story regurgitated over and over in the sequels. enjoying every twist, turn and the many shenanigans. I was impressed with how the H/h get together. RT AuthorBookBoost: '5 I always jump in and dive through the story. How they met and fell in love which of course is how we got Talree. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is about Talree's (book one hero) mom and dad. I read it originally before Goodreads and keeping track of things like that. Still a good buck that made me laugh even knowing what was going to happen. Funny story, I have already read it years ago. Review 1: After reading Just My Luck, I decided to check out this book as it was next in the series. ![]()
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Sure to bring an age alive, Burning Bright. ![]() OL456230W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.90 Pages 332 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0007324324 From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age taleIn the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. 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