Comments on: REVIEW: Wild for Him by Janelle Denison

By: JulieLeto

JulieLeto — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:26:17 +0000

Won’t comment on the review, but I will answer a question. Janelle isn’t writing about the brothers/cousins who actually have the Wilde last name, which is why the e is dropped in the title and will be dropped in future titles. She’s writing about the agency Ben works for. It’s a spin-off of her Wilde series.

By: limecello

limecello — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:58 +0000

Hm, I think I agree with you on this, Jane – and cecilia – I hope you do look into Ms. Denison’s other books. I got this book from the library, and… may or may not have gotten to the part you quoted from, Jane, but I put it down and went to another book.
I tend to enjoy Ms. Denison’s books – especially her “Wild” brothers/cousins [not quite sure why Ben got thrown in the lot] – but this book was pretty “meh” for me. Maybe I’ll finish it later, but it won’t be a top priority for me.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:03:40 +0000

I don’t know. I think if a romance series ever came out with those titles, I would remember the characters attached. LOL. Although I think I’ve read these books before, just with different names. I know I’ve read the 4th one alot.

By: cecilia

cecilia — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:32:21 +0000

The Sassy One (I think, another series that suffers from non specific names)

True, but think how memorable it would be if you got truth with titles like these:
The Self-Righteous One
The Stalker One
The Paranoid One
The (Narrator Keeps Telling You She’s) Smart One

Never mind, I’d never be able to remember which book the title was for.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:03:07 +0000

I really like bodyguard stories. In fact, during my Susan Mallery glom, I read The Sassy One (I think, another series that suffers from non specific names) and it featured a bodyguard hero. There’s a funny scene in there in which the heroine asks the hero what he does and he explains that he owns a security company that offers bodyguarding services. The heroine says something like – “Oh like in the movie” and the hero gets snippy and replies that in his company, bodyguards get fired for sleeping with the clients.

But yes, this was a hard one to finish and didn’t inspire me to read more.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:42:45 +0000

Eggs I totally agree with you. From this opening sentence all the way through the entire plot, it sounded like something I’d read a thousand times. And had no desire to even pick up for the 1001 time.

By: eggs

eggs — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:30:20 +0000

Ben Cabrera is a former marine who is part owner of the Elite Security Specialists bodyguard firm.

Did anyone else read this far into the plot summary and loose all desire to read the book – even before you’d read the review? Talk about your dead horses and frayed ropes. The least she could have done was make him a were-dolphin former marine …

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:07:01 +0000

He resists, in my opinion, because the plot needed sexual tension and so he had to resist.

I haven’t read this book, but I’m struck by how many books I read these days that short the reader on two IMO essential elements:

1. making it clear why the hero and heroine falls in love
2. making the obstacles to their HEA believable and articulable.

Too often, it feels like the reasons for both the attraction and the resistance boils down to “because it’s a Romance.”

By: cecilia

cecilia — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:40:15 +0000

I read this book recently. Denison is a new-to-me author, and I was hoping to find someone I could glom onto. Unfortunately, it didn’t inspire me to look up other books by her. Books like this are kind of frustrating – not bad enough to hurl against the wall, good enough that I’ll read all the way to the end, but not good enough to avoid feeling, ultimately, “I’ll never get that time back.”

And the basketball thing – that’s the scene where she proves she isn’t a snob by playing in her stilettos with some lower-class kids, right? I think it was supposed to make the heroine more “real.”

In other words, I totally agree with you, Jane.