Holy god. This is craptacular. The story feels rushed and implausible (even for a romance novel), and seems as though it was written by a twelve-year-old. (Trust me-I remember writing crappy romance fiction in Middle School, and this story reeks of acne soap and Pink Pearl erasers.) The hero is stuck in the past - specifically, ten years ago when he and the heroine were high-school sweethearts. I don't know if it's just how Brown wrote him or how the reader performs the character, but the hero comes across as goofy and dumb. The reader makes him sound like Slingblade; “You really make me hot, french fried potatoes, mmmhmmm.” Billy Bob Dumbass kidnaps the heroine and offers to trade her some land in exchange for a night of sex. The heroine agrees to it barely without a second’s hesitation, and only gets angry when the hero doesn't claim his payment right away. In one scene, the heroine wakes up to find the hero watching her sleep. A friend of mine once locked her boyfriend out of the house and woke to find him watching her; believe me, it’s not sweet – it’s disturbing. Unless you’re in an ICU, no one should be watching you sleep. Honestly, I can’t get into a story that revolves around the premise of two high-school teenagers having such an epic love that kidnapping the woman many years later seems appropriate. I had plenty of boyfriends in high school, but c’mon – if one of them kidnapped me ten years later and tried to trade a piece of land for a night of sex, I’d tear off his “turgid man-root” and make him eat it. (So stop calling me, Matt.) Jesus.

She didn't do her research. Her hero is in a wheelchair, and she keeps calling his daily chair a "racing chair." My son IS a wheelchair racer, and a racing chair is a specially designed chair, but obviously, she didn't do her research or she wouldn't call his daily chair a "racing chair." Also, he's supposed to be an in-shape, athletic type, and she has him use an electric chair. I don't know a single top in shape w/c racer who uses an electric chair. Also, while I don't mind 3rd omniscient POV, she devolves into head-hopping and makes it confusing to follow the characters' thoughts.

I have been a loyal Brockmann fan since reading Prince Joe for the first time. Since then I have read every single book that Suzanne Brockmann has written and I have loved them all. So it really pains me to say that I am immensely disappointed and depressed after reading Into The Fire. Brockmann’s trademark flawed characters have always been a favorite of mine, but the character flaws unveiled in this book are overwhelming. By the end of the book I could no longer appreciate most of the characters and I just felt pity for the rest. I have to say that this will definitely be the LAST book from Brockmann that I will buy on sight.

What Happened? I really liked MJD before this book. I would buy them the minute they hit the shelf, and then she goes and just ruins the whole thing!! It wasn't that funny and it good. Betsy is just weird, the Ant shouldn’t even get a mention (filler much), Nick is an over-the-top hater, and the rest haven’t evolved one iota. Oh, except the ones SHE KILLS OFF! I'm sooooooo disappointed that she did that. And the way they died was overly ridiculous, Ugh. I was expecting to read a romance novel NOT a fracking tragedy. Boo Hiss! Hellooooooo! Note to MJD: killing off people you wrote a previously love story about is SHEISTY!!!!!! Geez, way to alienate the readers. If she is just going to keep kill off couples; I’m Out! You let me down MJD. Big time.

This one was really disappointing because I have loved all of the other Brotherhood books. However there were very few scenes between the heroine and the hero compared to how much air time all the other characters got. It was like she is trying to do what Kenyon did and create new characters who will eventually have their own books. There was absolutely no romance in this book at all and I had to force myself to finish it. Another thing that bothered me was that some of the other future Brothers are GAY! I have no problem with homosexuality but at the same time I DO NOT want to read through a guy on guy love scene!! Ms. Ward stick to the romance!!

I like to check out the reviews--especially on Amazon.com right when new books come out. Most of the time Harriett Klausner is the first person to review the book and it seems like no matter how horrid the plot, undefined the characters and mediocre the entire book is she gives it 5 stars. As a matter of fact I went to all of her reviews and only found a few FOUR star ratings. Her reviews have become meaningless.

Why is it that all these historicals have "heroes" that essentially sexually assault the heroines in some way. They either cause them pain while attempting to kiss them or rape them, for heaven's sake. Is this supposed to be sexy? I don't think so.

It was awful! It had absolutely no plot. I had to force my self to fininsh it, you know, I'm all for freedom of religion and have nothing against Wicca. When the author incoporated spells and casting into the novel, however it destroyed my willing suspension of disbeleif.

I honestly tried to enjoy this book but by chap 3...it was hurled. Too wordy; and if that isn't enough the author has to add more by adding extra nonsense in parenthesis! Good grief. No one wants to read a comment by the hero and then read 2-3 pages of crap before the heroine answers back or vice versa. By then the reader forgets what the conversation is about! I honestly can't stand reading books written in this kind of style.

As some of you know, I have a "thing" about historical inaccuracies in my historical romances. But this one takes the cake. The hero is comparing the heroine to, better sit down for this one: Michaelangelo's MONA LISA! HELLOOOOH! Did none of these people ever hear of a dude named Leonardo daVinci? Deborah Raleigh, the author, failed to catch it, her editor failed to catch it, the proofreader failed to catch it, the printer failed to catch it. How many other publishing houses are harboring fugitives from the public school UNeducation system? The rest of the story was too formulaic, the hero was another in a long line of stubborn dunces, the heroine was so stiff with misplaced pride one couldn't feel really synpathetic toward her plight and the whole premise was too far-fetched for my willing suspension of disbelief to suspend a thread, much less this unsatisfactory wall banger. *sigh*

OK, maybe it's not a hurl, more like a toss, but I couldn't put this book on the pedestal no matter how much I wanted to. This book had a great premise: Victorian England, where a person's rank is determined by his or her magical ability rather than bloodlines. So, princes are the most powerful magically, followed by dukes and duchesses, and so on down the line. It a very rich world mixing history and fantasy, and I would have loved to love it. But, unfortunately, the early momentum of the book is not sustained in the later chapters. The characters and are not fully fleshed out, and situations are not fully explained. (And now for a minor diatribe on my part: Ultimately I could not get past the doormat of a heroine. I realize the heroine is under a curse, which dulls her looks and abilities, so her stunning naivete and saccharine sweetness are somewhat explained. I forgave it up to a point, but I could only take so much, not a whole book full of it! Just once, when the hero says, "Trust me, don't leave the house," I would like the heroine to actually trust him and follow his advice, and not say, "Oh, he must not have meant it," or "Nothing is going to happen to me," or "He's just worrying, the silly billy," or whatever. But she does leave the house, and unfortunately does not get run over by a bus. Yes, by this point in the book, I was hoping for something surprising to happen, but nothing did, all the action was telegraphed and formulaic.) Anyway, the Amazon.com reviewers who gave the book 3 stars have it right; it's not a 5-star book. That said, I will try the next in the series in hopes that the author improves. I do like the idea of the story (and the world the author has built), just not the execution of it in this book.

I don't know what's going on but I've managed to find 1 good book out of about 5. All the same stories, same stupid heroines, same, same, same.

Here in this book, you have a very dangerous assassin who can kill w/a touch. A perfect weapon if she didn’t end up violently ill and rolling in pain each time she engaged the enemy. But I couldn’t help noticing she was able to stand in the midst of a violent thunderstorm w/lightening flashing and having no repercussions, but she’s violently ill when pulling a trigger on a gun? Or in hand to hand combat? Come on! If Mother Nature doesn’t take her out, than anything man-made surely shouldn’t have the drawbacks as it does. By all accounts the psych abilities should only be affected when in use; so why the pain when she is in hand to hand combat or is firing a weapon? This doesn’t make sense to me.

Well, congratulations, Ms. Hamilton. I now hate every single character you've created with a fiery passion. I am sick of Anita never raising a zombie, or if she does, doing something stupid and messing things up. I'm so sick of the whole bondage leather-wear thing. I'm deathly tired of the incredibly boring sex scenes with multiple partners. I'm so very tired of none of these people being able to come to terms with anything in their lives. Or rather, pretending that they are going to be OK and in the very next sentence, going back over the same old ground that has been covered a billion times before. Not only do I not care about Anita's problems, I'm secretly hoping that Marmie Noir, the head vampire honcho, will actually wake up and eat all of them.

WTF is she thinking? I've just read on a blog website, that she's makeing one of her central characters Gay. Apparently Blaylock will have the hots for a male vampire, don't know who yet, maybe Quinn, who happens to be into threesomes and poor John Mathew can't get it up. WTF is going on with this series? Honestly, I don't care if he's gay but what's the point?. The series is about warrior vampires in a war with ...well frankly a bubble gum villain, trying to protect and save the vampire race. There supposed to be killing the evil lessers -yeah whatever , but instead they're sexual orientation is the be all end all of their characters. Get on with the f***ing storyline, and stop writing things just to shock people.

Who died and made you hall monitor? No one needs your wagging finger and your passive aggressive bitchiness.

For erotic romance this was the pits. A disgusting and very strange book. With absolutely zero romance.

I usually don't like to hurl a book without finishing it (I mean, it could get better...or at least tolerable), but not this one. I started this book twice and could not get past the first 100 pages. What dreck! I can't believe this is the same author of the Francesca Cahill series. I seriously wonder if someone else wrote this book under the Brenda Joyce name. The heroine, Claire, is a complete invertebrate. The world she lives in (present day) is one in which something like 80% of all murders are "pleasure crimes" (what a term!), in which basically the woman is f**ked to death. (Sounds good, except for the not living part. Not much pleasure in that.) Her mother and cousin were killed in this manner. A medieval warrior travels to the present day and takes her back to 1400s Scotland. I got whiplash trying to follow Claire's thoughts. A sample: "The next time they spoke, she had to set some boundaries and make some rules." But in the very next paragraph (again her thoughts): "He was lord here, absolutely, and she had better appease him if she could." Grow a backbone! The warlord, Malcolm, admits that he has killed a woman in a "pleasure crime," but Claire understands: She has always been "attracted to power," and "what woman wouldn't want the medieval stud facing her?" And just that easily her relatives' deaths are dismissed. Claire has traveled through time and has met people with superhuman strength. By now she should have figured out that there is lots of paranormal s**t going on. Nevertheless, on learning of the villain, she supposes: "Moray was probably an ambitious, ruthless and clever nobleman, and nothing more...He did not have extraordinary powers, no matter what Malcolm claimed. And he wasn't her enemy." Excuse me, you traveled through time. I think that should give you a hint that there are extraordinary powers going on. And maybe someone who lives in that world might know a bit more about it than you. Just a guess. Needless to say, I couldn't find anything likeable, redeeming, or sympathetic about any of the characters. I couldn't take the drastic swings in the characters' thoughts. Every page I'm saying "WTF?" Luckily, I stopped reading this book before I had to go the chiropractor, but my next still hurts.

Okay, I know I'm probably going to get scolded because this isn't about a specific book, but ... I'm so tired of lack of variety in romance. It's tough to find a book that isn't 1) a paranormal, 2) a Regency or British Isles historical, or 3) a romantic comedy. Don't get me wrong, I read and enjoy them, but I really would love more to choose from! I wish the bandwagon mentality would stop.

Just read a review of a book on Amazon where reviewer complained about a book because the son of a duke was not an marquis/marquess. "The heir to a dukedom is a marquis" - Actually, no. In most cases (as far as I know there's only one exception) the heir to a dukedom, if a son, takes his father's next lesser title as a courtesy title. A duke usually has a lesser title of marquis but not always.

JR Ward - This book sucked donkey d**k!! She better get into rehab because she was smoking something else when she wrote this book.

Okay, hurl worthy? I found an anthology that certainly gave me a rainy afternoon's worth of entertainment, but I have to say the story lines are SOOOO repetitive. Late 30s guy, perpetually gruff/angry, and early early EARLY 20s gal. Ick. Yeah, that happens and can be a good relationship, but not over and over. (Play your own league, fellas. I don't want to read about *children* getting it on with the 38-year-old bachelor.) Someone usually makes the comment that they are practically in different generations. Lots of angsting about her being a virgin. The balance of power was always out of whack...he has an MBA, she an associate's degree, or is a nurse, or hasn't been to college. (Again, can happen, but *every* time?) I was almost okay with the whole scene, thinking they were an 80s reprint, but (unless I'm missing something big) in reality this batch was published 2000-2002.

There are some words that ruin a seduction scene for me. Here are a few- nub, nubbin, butt, ass, man-root, downy(as in hair),turgid just to name a few. If I never heard a nipple referred to as a "nubbin" again in my life it would be great LOL

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