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A review by ssejig
Air Bound by Christine Feehan
3.0
I have no good reason as to why this got a three instead of a two. I had many, many, many things that irked me about this book. Many things. Many. It may be the fact that most of these things should have been caught by the editor that made me less annoyed. That, or the fact the story was so, so beyond ridiculous that finding these little gems (hid in the spoilers below) actually became a fun game. Yes, it was definitely a two-star book with an extra star for absurdity points.
Just one example: the use of the phrase skid marks. After sex. Um... I go on a little more behind the spoilers but how did no one catch the double meaning of this one? And why would either one be in use at all? That is just not a happy-sounding description of sex.
This is not up to the level of the Drake sisters by any means. Most Feehan readers will enjoy this book, but if you're a new reader or been away from her for awhile... I would definitely start at least at the beginning of this series, if not the Drake Sisters series.
Story description and irritations behind the spoiler.
So... the hero kidnaps our heroine for the father she never knew. Along the way they pick up four orphans (this is while they're on a sex slavery ship), two of whom were horribly abused, and the h/h kill off most of the other characters appearing in the book. This continues even as they meet her father who doesn't want her because he loves her but because of her giant brain (which we are told over and over that she has but we never see it). Maxim (hero) is determined to take Airianna (air element, see what they did with the name? Didja? Huh? Huh?) there anyway because he loves her and thinks that's best. Oh, and they fall in insta-love and his giant wang makes sexxing times good for her, a virgin and her sparkly vagina makes him never want another woman.
Can we talk about the part where he's hanging like a spider and then is compared to a spider. In the same sentence? You couldn't substitute "arachnid"? Would have worked just as well. And then it's Airianna's turn to be a spider on the very next page, only she's a curled up like a dead spider, not hovering like one waiting for prey.
In one shower scene, Maxim is described as being so much taller than her that his shaft is between her breasts. I may have missed the part where she was seated (nope, just went back and checked) but... good, god, how short is she? Four feet tall? And he's seven?
And the part where his penis is so big it left skid marks inside her? How, in this day and age, did this book make it past what I can only assume is a good number of editors and none of them knew the colloquial term? Just... not a good term to use in describing post-coital feelings. In either meaning of "skid marks"
Loved the fact that we kept getting told that Maxim was a trained killer with no emotions. Except that all this man did was emote everywhere. He was one big emotional nerve. It was very disconcerting to keep having one of our main characters tell us something about himself (that we were clearly supposed to believe) but have something completely different occurring on the page.
Just one example: the use of the phrase skid marks. After sex. Um... I go on a little more behind the spoilers but how did no one catch the double meaning of this one? And why would either one be in use at all? That is just not a happy-sounding description of sex.
This is not up to the level of the Drake sisters by any means. Most Feehan readers will enjoy this book, but if you're a new reader or been away from her for awhile... I would definitely start at least at the beginning of this series, if not the Drake Sisters series.
Story description and irritations behind the spoiler.
Spoiler
So... the hero kidnaps our heroine for the father she never knew. Along the way they pick up four orphans (this is while they're on a sex slavery ship), two of whom were horribly abused, and the h/h kill off most of the other characters appearing in the book. This continues even as they meet her father who doesn't want her because he loves her but because of her giant brain (which we are told over and over that she has but we never see it). Maxim (hero) is determined to take Airianna (air element, see what they did with the name? Didja? Huh? Huh?) there anyway because he loves her and thinks that's best. Oh, and they fall in insta-love and his giant wang makes sexxing times good for her, a virgin and her sparkly vagina makes him never want another woman.
Can we talk about the part where he's hanging like a spider and then is compared to a spider. In the same sentence? You couldn't substitute "arachnid"? Would have worked just as well. And then it's Airianna's turn to be a spider on the very next page, only she's a curled up like a dead spider, not hovering like one waiting for prey.
In one shower scene, Maxim is described as being so much taller than her that his shaft is between her breasts. I may have missed the part where she was seated (nope, just went back and checked) but... good, god, how short is she? Four feet tall? And he's seven?
And the part where his penis is so big it left skid marks inside her? How, in this day and age, did this book make it past what I can only assume is a good number of editors and none of them knew the colloquial term? Just... not a good term to use in describing post-coital feelings. In either meaning of "skid marks"
Loved the fact that we kept getting told that Maxim was a trained killer with no emotions. Except that all this man did was emote everywhere. He was one big emotional nerve. It was very disconcerting to keep having one of our main characters tell us something about himself (that we were clearly supposed to believe) but have something completely different occurring on the page.