Bengal's Heart (Breed Book 20)

I gave it 3 stars for the intent of the plot. But frankly, you could tell this was a rush job. There were SO many errors in this thing that it read like some amateur fanfiction (honestly, a lot of the basics in these stories regarding breeds reads like a particular fanfiction, Inuyasha, except instead of magic & demons, it's science & breeds. But hey, what do I care?). But seriously, ever heard of an editor? If you have one, fire them. Now. It's abundantly clear the author pushed this one out to make a quick buck. It's like she's not even trying anymore. The idea behind this series is honestly amazing. IT COULD BE SOOOO GOOD!!!.... if she'd sell the rights to another more worthy author. One who isn't so repetitive. If I read "burn me alive" one more time I might throw my kindle across the room and mail the remnants to the author, with a bill attached for obliterating my sanity.SPOILERS: Also, I got a little confused about several things... including who among the dead from 22 years ago were breed and who was human? At first I thought Patrick's mate was a breed like him. But then she wasn't. And they kept referring to "the child," stating that with any luck the kidnappers wouldn't have hurt it yet bc it's still a baby & thus, fragile. But if it happened 22 years ago it wouldn't be a child anymore, right? Im so confused. And how did Patrick's mate betray him? I'M SO CONFUSED. Ive read many of these books & they've never been SO unedited or confusing. The author didn't even know the definition of "retracted." What the hell happened? I love these books. Yes, there's an excess of erotica at times (though I love it), particularly because I really do enjoy the ACTUAL story. And frankly, the author usually rushes through everything you've been working towards at the end of every book simply because there's no more sex. Which I think sucks because the story is great. So I still read them. But come on, show a little gratitude to your readers and, if you're gonna repeatedly rush the ending, AT LEAST hire yourself a competent editor for crying out loud.

The two most stubborn people around I have had the pleasure to read about. For 11 years they ran from each other and the Mating Heat. Then a series of murders brought them together in order to survive. Can Cassa and Cabal finally break down the barriers to find the love they have for each other?Recommend this book and series for reading!!!

From the reviews that others have given the book i was prepared to HATE this book in LL's Breed series, but i didn't. Though the book falls short of the anticipation of what Cabal's story could have been, the book isnt awful or as bad as some of the other reviewers have said, it was actually one of the better books in the series.Cassa didn't come off as the spoiled brat that other reviewers portrayed her as, she was just a women who was betrayed by the man she thought she loved and for the past 11 years has been trying to fix mistakes that her husband has made.Cabal presented LL with so many possibilities for a great exciting story but Bengal's Heart fell short, BUT it was still good if not one of the better books(I.E. MUCH BETTER THEN TANNER'S SCHEME)in the Breeds series. Cabal was changed in this book from the others, he was written more in depth and given more of a story, he goes from pretending to be the carefree Bengal to the overprotective mate.If your willing to over look some of the discrepancies between the Cabal in this book( I.E. The Stripes...LOL) compared to the Cabal in the other books, then this book is worth while to read. The story is entertaining and gives you more background into Jonas and what he was meant to be(kinda)to the Breeds, and you can come to understand LL's world just a little bit more.

I had been fishing around for a new series to ready for a while. I'm the sort who likes romance novels, any type, historical, moderns, time travel, paramnormal - so long as it's romance I will read it. Of the stuff that has been published recently I like: Nalini Singh's psy/changeling series - some books more than others. Kresly Kole's immortals - there are a few I love, this trend she has lately to be more about the ick factor I don't like. I bought three from this series to try them out.I think the concept of the Breeds is one that is interesting. take "Planet of the Apes" / "Island of Dr. Moreau" and weave that as the background of a romance series. It has so much potential. I picked up the series at "Dawn's Awaking" (which was awful), continued with "Mercury's War" (a bit better), and now "Bengal's Heart" (which I kept wanting to put down it was so unappealing).Why do I not like this series?- she has no tenderness between the characters. They seem to go from constant strife and being antagonistic with each other to a sudden realization that they are in love. Bengal's Heart is particularly bad this way. For 95% of the book the two leads do nothing but argue, and not in a "I push your buttons" sort of way - but really they just argue - about the same thing over and over.- there is no emtional depth in her writing. Her leads have a handful of emotions "I'm angry", "I'm betrayed", "I'm driven by the mating urge". this will go on for most of the book and then at the end it will be "I'm in love". There are plenty of execlent romance stories where the two leads will start out not liking one another. but what is critical is that over the course of the story they grow to love one another becuase of what they learn about the other person. Jane Austin did it best. Lora Leigh has a lot to learn about writing emotional development. I suspect this is why so many of the reviews I have been reading remark on how much people do not like one or more of the leads. It's very hard to do any kind of connecting to these characters.- she uses dirty words way more than they would have for shock value. I don't think you can go a page without the "f" word and at least 3 without the "p" one. It's off putting. I get that the breeds are in many ways a male driven military group - but there is no reason why they all talk like they walked off the set of the "Sopranos"- this concept that when a character finds his / her mate they have an overpowering urge to do nothing but boink their brains out requires that there is some kind of nookie scene at least every 20 or so pages. At some point we have to do a little more "fade to dark" and let the plot of the story line come to the forefront and have the mating scenes (because no one would ever confuse them with love scenes) be there to move their relationship forward. There are so many of them we're essentially reading the same three scenes over and over and over again, it's not sexy. these people just pretty much screw. They don't make love. these is not about moving closer emotionally. It's just biological.- her editor is terrible. There are so many cases in Dawn, Mercury, and Bengal where some random new plot twist or backsotry about a character would be thrown in where it had no connectivity to anything that happened in the last 200 pages. A good editor would also (I hope) have prevented the characters from repeating the same blown out of proportion thought/emotions constanly throughoout the book. It got really boring to re-read the same stuff over and over again. A good editor would also make sure that a book could be read reasonably on it's own without having random characters walk in with no explanation of who they are and what they do. Try rading the first 10 pages of Dawn's Awaking without a cheat sheet of who is who.- a little ick goes a long way. I don't know what it is about so many paranormal authors that they think people actually want to read about something gross for many pages, and in Lora Leigh's case read it over and over again. Dawn's Awaking had multiple scenes of child rape. Bengal's Heart had multiple rehashes of people being butchered. It's fine if you need something that horrific to have happened in your character to create a necissary backstory - but there is no reason to keep describing it in a lot of detail. this is a case where less is more. Your reader's mind can fill in the gaps.After reading three books in this searies I've concluded that this is not worth it. The stories are convoluded. There is no romance. The writing is repetative. It's amazing to me that this series could have gone on so long, maybe her earlier books were better, but the three I read were not good at all.

Very long book. I haven’t read any of the previous books in this series. And I had no problem reading this book and understanding what was going on. I really liked this book. It was really hot and steamy at parts. I didn’t really care for the ending. I wanted more.

The breeds have been inciminated in a series of murders and cassie who is a reporter has been contacted by the killer and is semding her informamtion goes to investigate. cabal isan enforcer and is there investigating he knows cassie is his mate he doesn't want a mate he has avoided her for 12 years ever since cassies then husband help kill his pride but now they're both trying to find the killer cabal knows the killer will try to get cassie and cassie is determined to see it through to the end.this book is brilliant its full of action, chemistry and passion it has you hooked from page 1

Once again, the story lived up to what I have come to expect from Lora Leigh. This series is great and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Cabal.This one took a slightly different path that the other books and added more details for the background of the breeds and their fight for survival in a world that does not always accept the product of its actions

i think i had such high hopes for this one after reading tanners scheme that i was dissapointed, tanners scheme had some bad reviews but i loved it and thought this would be the same, i found it a bit jumbled and hated that cabel was so cold, that really spoiled it for me, i want to know the man needs the woman more than breathing, just as it should be. would find it hard to read again.

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One to appreciate in the series, it was hard to see how Cabal was going to mate (who would want him) but this book gets to the heart of who he is.