Water Bound (Sea Haven/Sisters of the Heart, #1) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

Sep 14, 2009 Danielle The Book Huntress rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-or-autobuy-author, paranormal-romance, desert-island-keepers, part-of-a-series, wizard-warlock-sorcerer, magic, nautical-fiction-or-non-fiction, family, soulmates, russian-hero-or-heroine

*Listened to audiobook from 6/23-6/29/11*
My thoughts:

*I thought the narrator was pretty good. I think she tried to vary her speech to signify that different people were talking. Her Russian accent was pretty good. Sometimes her female voices (for Rikki's 'sisters', particularly Blythe) sounded a little hokey. But overall I was happy, because she brought the characters to life. I could easily picture them in my mind as I listened. She made Rikki adorable and fierce and loving. Lev was the sexy, ...more

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Jul 31, 2010 Ally rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Wow! This was not at all what I was expecting. It wasn't what I imagined it to be like. I was thinking it would go down the same line as the Drake Sister's series but it didn't. It wasn't good but it wasn't bad either, it was different.

For Sid, the last thing he remembered was been on board a yacht that was quickly sinking, the mysterious bodyguard was lost in the swirling currents of the ocean, and sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy. Just as quickly, just as miraculous Wow! This was not at all what I was expecting. It wasn't what I imagined it to be like. I was thinking it would go down the same line as the Drake Sister's series but it didn't. It wasn't good but it wasn't bad either, it was different.

For Sid, the last thing he remembered was been on board a yacht that was quickly sinking, the mysterious bodyguard was lost in the swirling currents of the ocean, and sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy. Just as quickly, just as miraculously, he was saved pulled ashore by a beautiful stranger. Her name is Rikki, a sea-urchin diver in Sea Haven. She always felt an affinity for the ocean, and the seductive pull of the tides. And now, for the enigmatic man she rescued. But soon they will be bound by something even stronger each other’s tantalizing secrets which will engulf them both in a whirlpool of dizzying passion and inescapable danger.

Sid, who's real name is Lev Prakensii and is the brother of Ilya Prakensii (Turbulent Sea #6) changes his name to Levy to make himself sound more American when he's hiding from a Russian assassin and trying to keep Rikki safe, was a really interesting character. I found him quite similar to Ilya, a real tough, rough alpha male who was suddenly out of his depth and couldn't remember what job he'd taken and how he'd ended up in the sea. Had his government finally come after him? Had one of his jobs gone bad? The possibilities were endless to him.

I quite liked Rikki once I'd got over her quirky ways of living. At first I found it hard to understand but as the story went on I found a special fondness for her. I'm looking forward to her popping up in other books from the other Sisters.

Waterbound takes off from where Hidden Currents (Drake Sisters #7) ended. It's not necessary to have read the Drake Sisters series before reading Waterbound as Ms Feehan does explain everything with the Drake family and how they fit into Sea Heaven and how Lev fitted into the previous storyline of those books.

Waterbound took me by total surprise, I did really like the book but it wasn't Ms Feehan's usual storyline style. Although Waterbound is a romantic suspense, it read more like a contemporary romance and it wasn't until I was more than halfway through the book that I realised this. I wished I'd known this before reading Waterbound as then I wouldn't have felt like something was missing the majority way through reading it and my have possibly enjoyed it more than I did.

So far Waterbound has enticed me to continue reading the next book in the Sisters of the Heart series as I'm interested in the other characters and how the "Sisters" meet their hero's and how they all bond together. ...more

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Mar 14, 2011 Liz B rated it it was ok

Shelves: ebook, paranormal, romance

I so wanted to like this book. And I actually did like the main female character--she's somewhere on the autism spectrum, and that made her fascinating. She also felt very real--Feehan did a great job of making Rikki sympathetic and likable, while still prickly and idiosyncratic. But the plot and writing was so incredibly repetitive--the worst telling, not showing, that I've encountered in ages. The suspense was too easily resolved for a conflict that lasted like ONE MILLION PAGES, the sexual ch ...more

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Apr 27, 2010 Cindi rated it liked it

A solid 3.5 rating, but I just can't give it more. The Drake books always caught me up much more than Feehan's Carpathians because they contained more action and less emotional drama. The first half of Water Bound was all angsty stuff, as the author was showing us the emotional interaction between Lev Paraniskii and Rikki Sitham. She definitely delved well into the mind and actions of a high-functioning autistic woman with water elemental talents; she also convinced me early on that Lev was sinc ...more

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