Comments on: REVIEW: Scent of Darkness by Christina Dodd

By: Christie D

Christie D — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:04:23 +0000

I just started reading this book ( my first by this author) and hope it gets better. This passage in the 1st chapter was particular dumb to me:

They could breed only sons, a matter of much exultation to them. They took their women cruelly, and in their sprawling home they had a turnstile equipped with a bell. There the women who had been impregnated by the Varinskis’ careless mating placed the newborn sons. Each woman rang the bell and fled…

I’m picturing Grand Central Station in the foyer of a castle. Do they have to buy tokens to operate the turnstile?

And the names of the children: the three sons have OK sounding russian names, but they named the girl FIREBIRD? Why Firebird? Was she conceived in the backseat of a Pontiac?

I’ll keep reading b/c Jane said it was good but these two things made me go ….WHAT?

By: Jaynie R

Jaynie R — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:47:42 +0000

I was wondering about this one, too. Looks like I’ll have to add it to the pile.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:33:06 +0000

This is a series and so the sequel bait shows up but the SB’s appearance was appropriate and the focus was on Jascha and Ann.

By: Barbara B.

Barbara B. — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:22:58 +0000

Thanks for the great review, Jane. Glad to hear Dodd is back on track. Her voice and style in the Lost Texas Hearts series was more appropriate for historicals and felt really outdated. Maybe she’ll do better with paranormals.

I completely agree with Mari. No secondary love interests and no sequel bait? O happy day! I’m tired of series, sequel bait, and characters appearing in 5 or six books. I just want to read about the characters once and never hear about them again. Is that too much to ask?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:38:42 +0000

I just finished a reallllly old Christina Dodd book today, Lady in Black, over lunch. Was so-so. Not bad, but not particularly memorable.

That said, I think I’ll have to check out this one.

By: Mari

Mari — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:22:54 +0000

I was trying to find four books (to meet the buy four, get one free deal at Borders) and would have passed this one up if not for your review.

There were no secondary love interests and the subject of the sequels did not appear too often or gratuitously. Bliss! That alone may be worth the cover price:).

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:15:42 +0000

Ironically I was updating my TBB and gave this a pass because she has been more miss than hit for me recently. This sounds interesting enough to give it a try.

By: Josie

Josie — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:41:42 +0000

This sounds really good – I think I might give it a try. I’m kind of glad I haven’t read any of Dodd’s historicals, I have a bit of a hard time making the transition with authors when they switch genres.