No-recomendado por ᴍɪᴄs *ᴀᴍᴀɴᴛᴇ ᴅᴇ ʟᴏs sᴘᴏɪʟᴇʀs*



Me propongo leer de principio a fin libros considerados "malos". Mi intención es encontrar al menos UNA cualidad buena en ellos y reseñarlos objetivamente siguiendo 20 puntos a desarrollar brevemente. (Los puntos varían según el género del que se trate.)

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This story is one of the most unique I have ever read. The author does agreat job of setting scenes and helping the reader feel like areal party of the story. Hunter and Rania are two similar souls who find each other thru the world of war. Something Rania has dealt with most of her life and a part of Hunter's world he is all too familiar with. Tragedy brings them together and true love keeps them there. Though there are parts of the book that are highly improbable, the love you feel for the characters blocks that from your conscience. I am eager to read more by this author and only hope I can learn more about the future of Hunter and Rania. ( )

This was an unexpected emotional journey. It is a great story about a soldier and a woman in war torn Iraq that come together despite having nothing in common and how love an come in unexpected placed. Great read! ( )

Really I'd give this 3.5 if I could.

I was really enjoying this book. It started off really well. Broken girl, forced to sell herself to survive rescues hunky marine with beautiful eyes. I managed to suspend my disbelief here and there I kept reading. I mean, I'm not a medical person and I know nothing about Iraq, the religions, or even many of the customs. I also don't know what it's like to live and survive in a war zone.


The romance in the story is heart warming, but to be honest it was the sex that ruined it for me. Keep in mind I love to read sexy romances and erotica, so it's not that I was put off by it. for me it was the pacing, and the switching during intense moments. I understand that suspense is good, but I've never cared for it when they're in the middle of doing the dirty.


I also started to dislike Tucker every time he started comparing Raina to his ex. Even when he stopped himself from thinking about her. I don't know how it is for other couples, but I never think of my ex's in sexual ways, ever, and I've never compared them sexually either in a positive or negative way.


Finally, the injuries he sustained and the infections he's fighting. I just find it unbelievable that he could get out of bed, marine or not the man is human, let alone come to her rescue time and again. I've never been shot, but I've had surgeries (four abdominal surgeries and one in my leg) and broken ribs that hurt even when you're drugged up.


So that is what I didn't enjoy. If the sex is removed completely, I'd still have issues with Tucker, but really that is what brought my rating down. Now I do realize that other's may have enjoyed it and not every story is for everybody. This one just wasn't really for me, even though the love story itself was nicely implemented.

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This book...I can't even.
It's pretty heavy, the subject of it. It's certainly different than anything I've read before. It made me feel for the heroine so much.

The blurb is pretty vague, so I'm going to tell you what it's about (no spoilers or anything about how the story unfolds).
Hunter is an American soldier in Iraq, 2003. He gets severely wounded in a street shootout. Rania is an Iraqi prostitute. She saves him, and hides him.

And it's somehow heartwrenching. I mean, you have this woman who has never known anything resembling happiness or love, and this man that literally has nothing of his own but a weapon. They don't make sense, at all, but then somehow they make perfect sense.

It was horrible reading about Rania's life. She deserves so much better, but she has absolutely no choice. She is so strong! I wanted to just make every bad thing in her life go away.
It was horrible reading about Hunter knowing what she did and that she was doing it partly for him. His guilt over it, his disgust and then his jealousy, they were killing me. I loved Hunter, all of his thoughts seemed so realistic somehow, even the errant ones.

If it weren't for the strange circumstances, I'd say that the way they get together was reminiscent of a real couple. The camaraderie, the shyness, the protectiveness, the way they slowly ease into it without even realizing. But they were strange circumstances, and that makes the story even stronger because there are things between them that are so hard to get over. Everything that happened made sense, especially the way it ended. I loved the way he didn't care about any of it, just her. And that she trusted him enough to let him take care of her.

And then, when they are finally together - I can't even call them sex scenes. I'm talking that first time, but it was every.single.time. I can honestly say that, for the first time in my life I felt...not embarrassed, but uncomfortable, reading a sex scene in a book. I read this stuff several times a week. It makes no sense that I should feel uncomfortable. But it felt so wrong to witness that kind of pure intimacy, even on paper. Seriously, that's what it was. They have this special connection, you can feel it and it was so intimate it felt wrong to be reading it.

I guess it's a testimony to Jasinda Wilder's writing. You can make a clear distinction between Rania and Hunter's voices. I loved the way Hunter switched to Marine mode, his voice changed, too. Or how Rania sounded detached every time she was Sabah. It was great. The sex is very graphic. Just a heads up for those who don't like that sort of thing.

I thought it would be hard reading about war, and yeah, it's a considerable part of this story, but it didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. I definitely recommend this. ( )