Reviews for Lazarus Rising

The average rating for Lazarus Rising based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-25 00:00:00 Andrew Soller 4 Stars ~ Anne Stuart likes her bad boy heroes that skirt the law. Deep down they're decent men, but they've somehow gotten into a life of crime, be it burglary like in the Catspaw series, or bookie gambling like in this story. Their heroines tend to be innocents that are feisty but constantly bringing out their white knight tendencies. This story begins with Katharine at 30, being told she doesn't know what heartache is by her 19 yr old self-absorbed future sister-in-law. That declaration sends her back into the deep depression of mourning; mourning the one true love lost when she was not yet 20. And the story then goes back to a younger Katharine, a university student taking business courses for practical reasons and also creative arts, her true passion. A sorority dare leads her to meet Danny, 24 yr old bookie in charge of the syndicate's gambling ring. For Katharine it's love a first sight, and though Danny knows she's trouble he can't afford, he can't keep away. After a passionate weekend and vows of love and marriage, Danny has to go look after some last business. When he doesn't come back, she seeks him out, and finds him bullet ridden, dying on a stretcher. Ten years later, Katharine has been living a passionless unexciting life in small town Dexter, Washington. She's a workaholic with a stomach ulcer, and she's about to marry the banker she works for. When she stops in to the local newspaper-print shop to place their engagement notice and to order wedding cards, she has the shock of her life. The new managing editor, Mac MacDaniel, looks and sounds just like her Danny. The man calling himself MacDaniels had a crescent-shaped scar by the side of his mouth. She remembered kissing that scar, tracing it with her finger, she remembered him telling her how he got it. She looked up then, into his suddenly wary eyes, and knew without question she was looking into the eyes of the man for whom she'd destroyed her life by mourning. I really enjoyed this story. Katharine has learnt some hard lessons for loving Danny, and as a result she's shut her true self deep inside. Realizing she's mourned a man who had abandoned her, brings out all of her passionate emotions, and she vows to start living again. First, she dumps the fianc�; then she's after some revenge. The screech of tearing metal echoed in his heart as she plowed into the side of the MGB. She hadn't been going fast enough to do any structural damage�she would have known that her car would suffer more punishment than his. It simply ripped and tore at the beautiful finish. For good measure she put the Toyota into reverse, backed up and then slammed into the MGB again. And then she drove away, waving cheerfully in his horrified direction... It was quite fun, watching Katharine come back to life. Mac, aka Danny, has never truly forgotten her. He'd blocked his memory, for both their sakes. Being near her, brings back all the memories and with it that consuming passion he'd come to be afraid of. He's never truly stopped loving her either. There's some intrigue and danger that notches up the emotional intensity. Loved the HEA ending.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-25 00:00:00 Kevin Brown 3.25 stars I really enjoyed the first half of the story, the h/H meeting 10 years before, even though the heroine was incredibly naive to fall in love so quickly without knowing a thing about the hero and knowing he was doing shady things. She was also TSTL when she followed him around like a lost puppy. Ten years later she is still grieving him even though she barely knew him! Of course ten years later she is engaged and runs into an alive hero, who doesn't recognise her - so much for their grand love. I felt in this book the hero had shades of what the author later turned into her anti-hero Ice series (which I hate btw). The hero hasn't given heroine a thought in the past decade, has had affairs and even an ex-wife. Of course the poor besotted heroine hasn't gotten any, which I wish she had. I felt their relationship if you can call it that was of unequals, she loved him more or should I say was obsessed with. I know my review makes it seem I hated the book, which I didn't but it had issues.