Comments on: REVIEW: Blue Sage by Anne Stuart

By: shyn

shyn — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:15:16 +0000

i totally loved into the fire, my best anne stuart book thus far.

i love how he gave up so much for her all these years and she never had a clue just how much he loved her, even thinking he was too wasted to even remember the night she was raped when he actually paid 1.5years of his life for making the mistake of sending her to Paul.

and i love how jamie kincaid was like, ‘why did you do that?’ blah blah. i just love the high school crush developing into real love kinda story. definitely the bad boy thing was a huge plus. love dilloooonnn!

By: Jayne

Jayne — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:46:53 +0000

Kiara, I enjoyed Nightfall as well. I think it’s wonderful that Stuart has never let you down. I know of very few readers who have autobuy authors anymore so it’s nice to hear from someone who does.

By: Kiara

Kiara — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:46:40 +0000

I loved Into the Fire as much as I loved all her other books. I couldn’t imagine a better author. My favorite book had to be Nightfall. I will continue to buy Stuart’s books the moment they hit the shelves. I have never been disappointed with a book she has written, and I expect I never will be.

By: Jorrie Spencer

Jorrie Spencer — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:47:54 +0000

Into the Fire is one of those books which totally worked its magic on me. I loved it. And yet I can step back and point to things in it that really really bother me.

This is rare.

But I’ll be reading more Anne Stuart.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:51:17 +0000

I hadn’t thought about it this way until now, but maybe it’s the fact that some books go so far out of their way to show the hero as a “bad boy” that they end up making the full circle, so to speak. “Bad” in and of itself, isn’t such a big turn on for me (unlike Vincent, from “Project Runway,” who’s turned on by everything bad, apparently), especially when I feel like a “bay boy” hero is working so hard at being bad.

Stuart definitely feels sort of all over the place with her “bad” heroes. Bastien was wonderfully drawn, IMO, but when I read Into The Fire, the book almost hit the wall after the hero chased the heroine around a table, menacingly warning her that she was not “safe” to go to bed alone until she gave up some sexual favor to him. Stalking, bullying, and shaming just aren’t sexy to me in a man. One of the few Romance heroes I’ve let get away with real ugliness toward the heroine is Sebastien from To Have and To Hold. Oh, and Sheridan from Kinsale’s Seize the Fire. It’s a short list, though.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:03:20 +0000

Black Ice is the first Anne Stuart book I enjoyed, in part, I think, because Bastien wasn’t a “bad boy," but a morally ambiguous man whose badness didn’t feel like some contrived device to make the heroine cream her crisp white panties all the time he’s stalking her.

The “contrived device-ness” is why most so called “bad boys” usually don’t work for me. I actually don’t mind a true bad boy and I’ve enjoyed some of Stuart’s other heroes who were just that.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:01:08 +0000

Black Ice is the first Anne Stuart book I enjoyed, in part, I think, because Bastien wasn’t a “bad boy,” but a morally ambiguous man whose badness didn’t feel like some contrived device to make the heroine cream her crisp white panties all the time he’s stalking her.

IMO if you converted some of Romance’s so-called alpha heroes (and I’m not talking particularly about Stuart’s books here, but simply about some of the bullying, stalking, social misfit brooders) into wolves, for example, they’d be failures as pack leaders.