An Inconvenient Mate

I loved this short story, and Briana Bronte is for me the voice of The Breeds. Yes it has explicit sex scenes, but unlike death and taxes you do not have to either listen or read books of this nature, if you choose to then please do not take the moral high ground and complain as it reeks of Hypocrisy.

I love the breed series and would eagerly buy the earlier books i.e. Tempting the Beast, The Man Within and Elizabeth's Wolf in audio format.

Thanks Audible for bringing them aboard,.

The main character is not strong at all. The male is annoying. The narration is awful and this Russian accents are so bad. The supporting characters are annoying. The heroine (sorry--the main victim) is content to be a 25 year old virgin who almost got raped and can only cry and say, "My man will kill you," when she is kidnapped. Sorry, but I rather read about stronger women who don't let themselves be pushed around. Save your money--pass this one by.

I used to read all of the series and now I can no longer hold the books, glad it was on audiobook

thought coyote's were only bad.

I have enjoyed all of the breeds series and hope to continue to do so

Best: it was an enjoyable addition to the series despite the narrator

Least: the narrator read the heroine as a whiny, puling, weak thing.

different narrator, a little more polish to bring it up to the quality of the larger novels, and a slight rework on the ending so that it doesn't seem as "deus ex machina" as a stand alone novel (in the context of the series, the ending does work and acts as a draw into the next story)

While I found the narrator to be a competent voice actor, with a decent tonal variety that allowed me to ignore the less pleasant qualities enough to finish the novel, her voice went nasal on a few occassions, and her reading of the heroine's voice especially was so tremulous that it was disgusting.

I really despised that. While it could be a valid interpretation of what was written, it was not in the spirit of the Ms. Leigh's writing as a whole, and was frankly a character-killer in that it made it very difficult to think of the heroine as worthy of her heroic status. A more enjoyable interpretation would have been the "stiff upper lip in the face of overwhelming adversity", or at least something that planted her feet on solid ground.

Movie, yes. It was actually short enough to translate well without having to drop anything of even mild importance. The entire series could probably make the shift to TV well, too.

This is probably not the best introduction to the series, but it is a good addition to it. One of the full-length novels would make a better introduction.

On the bright side, as a romance-themed series, the order of reading isn't as important as with a series that follows a particular character.

Some elements of the series:

The Breeds are a "bound by destiny" romance type, in the vein (pun intended) of Christine Feehan's heroes.

Ms. Leigh, however, does a much better job of creating different heroic types within her mold and different plots than Feehan has managed.

Each story in the series does further the development and timeline of the Breed universe.

Is about all one can say. There is so much left to the saga that it's good to have the odd shortie thrown in.

not so much crude wording and ideas

Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian

the narration was fine, too many attempts as sounding sultry

disappointment and some revulsion, don't get me wrong I like a good sex scene, these were just too crude for me.

The story could be so interesting. The overall concept is good, just goes to far with the sex for my tastes.

I liked Rule. He got to see what Jonas goes through.

Excellent with accents

I did not plan to do so, but the book was not that long so I was able to.

yes

have the complete books on download

This is a novella about half the regular size and half the regular price.

Well lately some of the Breed books are not really good but this one was great!!! I really enjoyed it and I hope from now on they get better. I wish the book was longer but for being short it was really a good read.

I love how she just becomes the person she is reading. It's great and I really love the books in this series she has read.

I've listened to several of the Breed series stories - and while this is novelette - it was quite exciting and enjoyable. In most of the Breed stories so far - the coyotes are portrayed as the bad guys. I liked seeing this aspect of their species traits - and how sexy they could be!

The initial flirtation in the bar at the beginning was well written and enticing. It certainly piqued my interest.

Well - the sex scenes were REALLY hot! You've got to love that!