Honor Under Siege [Paperback]

I have all her books and I love them all,but I think I won't be buying another one of this series.
Everything is still the same that I lost interest....IT'S DRAGGING!!!!!
I love the characters but at this point I got tired of waiting for the END!!!!I don't care what else happens.

First, Radclyffe is my favorite author....so far. But another book like this, and I will have to pay more attention to Karen Kallmaker. I have loved every one of the Honor series books thus far, but this one falls flat on its face. I would give it 0 stars, but the scenes with Valerie and Diane were HOT (as another reviewer mentioned). Those two were the only reason I kept reading.

Radclyffe needs to keep a cheat sheet or something next to her for important or even semi important time lines. Blair and Diane were together when they were 14, 15, or 16??? Take your pick. Ok, Ok that's nitpicking, but it's annoying to me.

My major problem with this book...Blair whining constantly throughout. Another reviewer also mentioned it, but it is worth repeating (in the hopes that Radclyffe reads these).

MINOR SPOILER ALERT: Blair is out on the beach all upset because Cameron is out there with people trying to kill her while Blair is safe and sound with armed guards. She then has the nerve to whine to Diane about how difficult it is for her. Knowing that Valerie is being hunted by several different people. Valerie is out on her own. Alone. No Renee and/or Felicia with her to protect her. Later, Blair is watching all the activity on the beach and only sees one stretcher and panics, wondering where Cam is. Cam wasn't given a shot to lower her body temp. Cam wasn't in the boat that Mac clearly stated was targeted by a missile.....oh don't get me started on that whole scene. It was idiotic. Too late, I got started on it. Blair wants to know whose boat was blown to smithereens when Mac just said who the target was 40 seconds before it exploded. AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHH.

Honestly, I have completely written off Blair and Cam. They are not the characters I fell in love with. Blair whines constantly about how worried she is for Cam, and Cameron has a death wish. She claims Blair is her number one priority, and yet, she's always the first one to jump into danger. I wonder how Blair will look in a straight jacket when Cam is killed someday? Maybe Diane and Valerie will go visit her in the looney bin?

I realize Cam is the "hero" of the book and needs to be all that and more. However, being heroic and being stupid are two different things, and Cam has, sadly, gotten more and more idiotic with each new book. Did she get Valerie out of the water any faster by jumping in after her? No.

I will get the next book, but I will skip all the scenes that do not include Diane and Valerie. Cam and Blair....they were great in the beginning, but it's anybody's guess what happened to them. Hopefully I'll be able to order the book at my local library, so I don't have to waste the money on it.

This wasn't one of Radclyffe's better efforts. The story meandered and I found myself losing interest about midway through. The characters were well drawn, but the plot needed tightening.

Jennifer Parello, author of Dateland

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