Reviews for Lyon's Gate [With Earbuds]

The average rating for Lyon's Gate [With Earbuds] based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-10-01 00:00:00 Jen Stoner Another library book. This one falling apart at the seams. Obviously I can't fault the author for that, but it didn't really help my reading experience much. This was my first Catherine Coulter and if I'd been smart, I wouldn't have started in the MIDDLE of a series. But ALL of her books seem to be in series and this was the ONLY Catherine Coulter I could find at the library, so I grabbed it. I was mostly lost. WAY. TOO. MANY. CHARACTERS. I'm sure this was the result of starting the series in the middle, but GOOD LORD, most of this book was written about people OTHER than the hero/heroine and I had no clue who most of those people were. I'm also not totally in love with the writing style itself. I can't even count how many times I had to turn back a page because I didn't have enough information to know what was going on. Also, one of my writing pet peeves is this: He said, as he was stroking her golden blond hair, "I want to ruin you." (or whatever, I made that sentence up). But it's SO AWKWARD and it's a common enough sentence structure in this book to really BUG me. When it came to the actual romance part (of the ROMANCE novel), the author didn't do nearly enough to explain the falling-in-luuuuurve aspect. The hero has this big hang-up because his girlfriend of five years ago tried to kill his family and he can never trust another woman again, but the author skips ENTIRELY OVER the internal dialogue part where he realizes he's in love with the heroine and trusts her. The plot goes gallivanting off to the horse track and then she just gives birth to his twins and HE MAGICALLY LOVES HER. What!?!? And the TWINS thing. GAH! Identical twins DO NOT RUN IN FAMILIES. When the egg splits, it's 100% RANDOM. NOT GENETIC. Fraternal twins CAN ONLY RUN IN A WOMAN'S LINEAGE. A woman can't marry a man who is a twin and then HAVE TWINS because it "runs in the family!" Women make EGGS and men make SPERM. Fraternal twins happen because a woman ovulates from both ovaries in a single cycle instead of JUST ONE ovary. It can only be a FEMALE genetic trait. A woman can't marry herself into the prospect of having twins! There is no magic twin sperm! Anyway, I'll give Catherine Coulter another chance, but if I ever end up loving her, it will obviously be a slow seduction.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-28 00:00:00 Peter Labore First of all, the picture on this ISBN and the title are completely different than the one I just read and am holding in my hand. (See other editions for cover picture) I loved this book. I loved the twins. I thought for sure that I had finished this series...but NO! I looked at Catherine Coulter's web site and discovered there is one more "The Wizard's Daughter". Of course, I am not through. I have just placed an order at the library to have it delivered to my branch. I can hardly wait.