The Awakening (Leopard Series, #1) - Christine Feehan
Friday, September 4, 2009
A beautiful naturalist's dream comes true-to live among the feral jungle creatures. But an untamed, irresistible beast of another sort inspires her to explore her own wild side.
Rating: 2.5 / 5
This short book was more world building for Feehan's Leopard Series than anything else. There wasn't much romance - a slight bit of erotica (mangoes and ice in the hot rain forests in Borneo...interesting) - a lot of ink spent on environmentalism, and no character depth or anything else in the book.
Brandt is the leader of the leopard pack that lives in the Borneo rain forest in Indonesia. Maggie is supposed to be his mate - he tracks her down, manipulates the situation so that she comes to the rain forest and when they meet promptly tells her she cant leave.
They're attracted to each other. A lot. Maggie puts up some token resistance at appropriate times, but mostly she wants him and thats that.
I didn't like the story much, everything was handled too weirdly for me. The actions of the characters lacked something. As if it was all happening to someone else. The pro-environment message was pretty good though.
Maybe I wasn't in the best frame of mind to read this. This wasn't Feehan's best book for me.
For a good review of this book, click here for Alaine's thoughts.
3 comments:
Usually I really like Feehan's books (I count her as one of my favorite authors), but I'm not very fond of (what I've read of) her Leopard series. Really I'm only interested in them as the connect to the Carpathian series - and even then, the Leopard/Carpathian books are my least favorite of the Carpathian series.
I haven't read Feehan in a very long time. I've come to almost hate world-building, because there is little romance in the actual first book of a new world.
This is my first Feehan book outside the Carpathian Series and i guess i had high expectations.
But it wasnt so bad since it was a short read. The next book in the series was pretty good
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