Kiss of Heat (Breeds, #4) in Dangerous Hero Addict Support Group

Jan 10, 2009 Wendy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: pub-2005, were-shifter-demon-faries-other, romance-suspense-thriller, lora-leigh, borrowed, 2009-reads

This story is about Kane Tyler and Sherra. They had met 11 years before and she thought he'd left her in the labs and he thought she was dead. They meet again and it's very tense as Sherra has shut her emotions off while Kane is angry that she was alive and never contacted him. Very steamy scenes once it finally happened, and when it did it seemed to be every other page. It wasn't, it just seemed like it. I know I can't believe I'm saying this but the sex was almost overkill. I wish she would ha ...more

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Oct 30, 2008 Holly rated it liked it

Shelves: lora-leigh-breeds

This was alright. I wasn't as impressed by this as I was with the other books. Sherra was too much of a downer for me to like it. I know she suffered, I know she was hurt, abused and betrayed. Get over it. Kane didn't betray her. She knew it, everyone else knew it, yet she still persisted on giving him the cold shoulder. I didn't understand it. He was as much a victim as she was, yet she was blaming him and punishing him throughout 3/4s of the book. Pity, party of one.

The sex was as hot as coul This was alright. I wasn't as impressed by this as I was with the other books. Sherra was too much of a downer for me to like it. I know she suffered, I know she was hurt, abused and betrayed. Get over it. Kane didn't betray her. She knew it, everyone else knew it, yet she still persisted on giving him the cold shoulder. I didn't understand it. He was as much a victim as she was, yet she was blaming him and punishing him throughout 3/4s of the book. Pity, party of one.

The sex was as hot as could be, when they finally do have sex. Of the three Feline Breeds books, Kane and Sherra hold out the longest against the mating heat. Which wasn't a problem but since Sherra hates Kane so much, there was no passion in their sex. It was just relief for them. They might as well have been two ships passing in the night. I didn't like that. I also felt that Kane's dominance was overblown. I was reticent to read this book because I was afraid he wouldn't be able to match Callan or Taber's animal aggression and now I know Lora Leigh probably worried about the same thing. So she overcompensates and in my humble opinion, it was too much. Kane wasn't all bad though. He has great love and affection for Cassie, the little wolf cub that lives with the Pride and his interactions with her were, unfortunately, the best parts of the book for me. Also, he has some of the best zingers, which he happily fires off indiscriminately among the Pride. "Do you think I can't imagine the hell she went through, you purring bag of mismatched genetics?" Priceless.

The use of the Council and the purists who keep managing to sneak onto the property is getting old. At this point, I'm thinking they need to rework their security infrastructure because it's not working. Just a thought, just a thought. If I was Merinus or Roni, I would demand 24/7 bodyguard protection because it's obviously not safe. Especially whenever an alarm is tripped because when the males go haring off, no one has caught on to the fact that it's a trap. As the last two times and every time before that would suggest.

I don't know if I was just reading too fast, trying to get this book over with or what, but I felt like some passages were not clearly written. I was confused as to what was happening, who was saying what and to whom. Part of the reason was that Kiss of Heat is actually not next after The Man Within. Apparently, Lora Leigh wrote them out of order and Elizabeth's Wolf is next after The Man Within, and then Kiss of Heat. So there was some byplay I was not getting, which was fine, but I felt that the epilogue was poorly written, regardless. Almost as if they were tacked on as an afterthough, in order to pave the way for the next book.

Anyways, this was book wasn't bad, it wasn't great, it was just alright. Which was a shame. Kane and his sense of humor was really funny at first but just as Sherra wore him down and defeated him, she wore me down, too. :(
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Apr 15, 2009 Yz the Whyz rated it really liked it

Shelves: lora-leigh, 2012-reads

After reading Tempting the Beast where I met Kane and Sherra, I decided to skip over the other books to read this one. I have been intrigued by this couple so much that I couldn't wait to read their own story.

Sherra and Kane's book is very readable. The tension is high, the sex is hot and the anguish is real. My only complaint is that it took a while for Sherra to finally accept Kane, but then the sniping and growling sort of made it fun. I really enjoyed Kane's name-calling, especially with the ...more

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Mar 13, 2011 Kelly rated it really liked it

Shelves: ebook, read-2011

For me this one was better than the first and I really do like this series BUT something is lacking and the only thing I can pinpoint is the lack of balance.. How I wish the sex and plot were balanced.

I'll be reading more in the series. They just are't as well developed as a JR Ward or other fav PNR of mine.

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Oct 03, 2009 Netanella rated it really liked it

Shelves: author-lora-leigh

Beautiful story of the love/hate relationship between Kane and Sherra, two secondary characters from the earlier Breeds novel that are here featured in their own story.

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