Reviews for The Elusive Bride (Black Cobra Series #2)

The average rating for The Elusive Bride (Black Cobra Series #2) based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-02-13 00:00:00 Justin Wittmann I want to state for the record: When I purchase a book from the grocery store, I don't expect Anna Karenina. I want a good story, some good dialogue, some smutty sex and writing that doesn't make me actively cringe. That is all. That being said, I don't know how this book got published. Clearly Ms. Laurens's previous titles and selling power were enough to release this tripe into the universe. To call this book stupid would be an understatement. Editors were asleep at the wheel and deserve a pay cut for this one. Trees should be planted to make up for the paper used to print this. Myself? I want compensation for the time I spent reading it. First, let's start with the insipid diary in which the titled Miss pours her heart out over her "one." Her "one and only gentleman just for her." Barf-o-rama. Everysingleentry!!!!!! I started skipping them because they were unreadable. My sister writes more interestingly of love and she's fresh out of high school. Second, what was with the threat from the cult without a cause? The cultists are coming! The cultists are coming! There was a paragraph towards the end that alluded to the hedonistic cult without a cause--money and wealth and power--led by nefarious sons of Shrewton. As the locus of the group was in England (and I am theorizing here due to a lack of explanation), what was the need for the menacing Muslim-esque jihadist assassins? (They were quite stereotypically extremist, obedient and expendable.) Next, the sex. How disappointing. There were palms and exploration. Kisses and sighs. Need! Want! Passion! But what happened to the heaving coral tipped nipples and straining erections that lovers of smutty historical fiction relish? I began skimming those parts too. Quelle bore. Lastly, the writing. Unfortunately, the diary was not the only unreadable part. Commas and convoluted sentences abound and the fragmented sentences were annoying. I have read some of Stephanie Laurens's other books and expected better.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-06 00:00:00 Ryan West 2.5 Well, what can I say... I've had enough of the Black Cobra 🐍 it just drones and drones about it throughout all the books in this series