Comments on: Into the Dark http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/ Christmas Gifts for 2009 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:49:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: S. Hutchinson http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-536 S. Hutchinson Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:26:43 +0000 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/#comment-536 I loved this story as much as the first 4 and hate to see the series end. But I am looking forward to the stories she has planned for Gabe and the others. I will be looking for their release and hope I don't have to wait to long. Rating: 5 / 5 I loved this story as much as the first 4 and hate to see the series end. But I am looking forward to the stories she has planned for Gabe and the others. I will be looking for their release and hope I don’t have to wait to long.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: CALLEEN K. DAVIDSON http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-535 CALLEEN K. DAVIDSON Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:01:37 +0000 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/#comment-535 So often series don't add up to a great story. This one did. The Garretts are a wonderful extended family. Each with their own set of quirks and foibles. Cindy Gerard has done each of them justice with her very well written stories. Thanks Cindy. By the way you deserve a better editor or content proofer than you had for this story. Lots of words out of context and using planes instead of plains and their instead of they're. Sometimes tough to read when you are side tracked by this stuff. Rating: 5 / 5 So often series don’t add up to a great story. This one did. The Garretts are a wonderful extended family. Each with their own set of quirks and foibles. Cindy Gerard has done each of them justice with her very well written stories. Thanks Cindy. By the way you deserve a better editor or content proofer than you had for this story. Lots of words out of context and using planes instead of plains and their instead of they’re. Sometimes tough to read when you are side tracked by this stuff.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: E. N. Ling http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-534 E. N. Ling Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:03:44 +0000 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/#comment-534 It seemes like I waited forever to get Dallas&Amy's story and while Into The Dark did become an action-packed tale, I can't say the romance between Dallas and Amy moved me. There seemed to be much more between them when they were in the Philippines so that in the end, this romance ends like a shipboard one. Once they reach home ground, the magic fizzles out. This was how I felt about Amy and that's a shame because the book is fast-paced and would have made an excellent movie. <br /> <br />Somehow, the emotion was missing from this book and it shouldn't have been the case because Dallas is supposed to be one tortured soldier, suffering from PTSD but Ms Gerard has failed to pull the reader into his tortured world because she chose 'telling' rather than 'showing'. As a result, when she tells me Dallas can't see a future for him with Amy, I was wondering why not. Sure, his team members got killed or injured in a mission but all soldiers suffer that kind of loss in war time. I didn't get to share even a little bit of what those teammates had with Dallas so when Ms Gerard fast forwards the story, Dallas' reasons for his depression got lost. <br /> <br />As for Amy, I just could not buy into her reason for going after her grandfather. But I guess I don't understand this need for revenge, especially if in Amy's case it was just to ask him why he did what he did. IMO, that was such a dumbass thing to do. Totally TSTL, which makes me feel that Dallas and Amy's romance wouldn't survive in real life. <br /> <br />But I am SO intrigued by Gabriel Jones! He and Jenna truly stole the show from the depressed Dallas and the TSTL Amy. Okay, TSTL is too harsh a word for Amy because she is a very capable and self-sufficient woman. I liked that she had no qualms killing her would-be asassin. I liked that Jones told her she could watch his back anytime. But her reason for going after her grandfather was still stupid. Rating: 4 / 5 It seemes like I waited forever to get Dallas&Amy’s story and while Into The Dark did become an action-packed tale, I can’t say the romance between Dallas and Amy moved me. There seemed to be much more between them when they were in the Philippines so that in the end, this romance ends like a shipboard one. Once they reach home ground, the magic fizzles out. This was how I felt about Amy and that’s a shame because the book is fast-paced and would have made an excellent movie.

Somehow, the emotion was missing from this book and it shouldn’t have been the case because Dallas is supposed to be one tortured soldier, suffering from PTSD but Ms Gerard has failed to pull the reader into his tortured world because she chose ‘telling’ rather than ’showing’. As a result, when she tells me Dallas can’t see a future for him with Amy, I was wondering why not. Sure, his team members got killed or injured in a mission but all soldiers suffer that kind of loss in war time. I didn’t get to share even a little bit of what those teammates had with Dallas so when Ms Gerard fast forwards the story, Dallas’ reasons for his depression got lost.

As for Amy, I just could not buy into her reason for going after her grandfather. But I guess I don’t understand this need for revenge, especially if in Amy’s case it was just to ask him why he did what he did. IMO, that was such a dumbass thing to do. Totally TSTL, which makes me feel that Dallas and Amy’s romance wouldn’t survive in real life.

But I am SO intrigued by Gabriel Jones! He and Jenna truly stole the show from the depressed Dallas and the TSTL Amy. Okay, TSTL is too harsh a word for Amy because she is a very capable and self-sufficient woman. I liked that she had no qualms killing her would-be asassin. I liked that Jones told her she could watch his back anytime. But her reason for going after her grandfather was still stupid.
Rating: 4 / 5

]]> By: kittens2211 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-533 kittens2211 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:14:13 +0000 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/#comment-533 I loved this entire series. I think that it is one of the best modern day romance series written to date. Well worth buying and adding to your cindy gerard series Rating: 5 / 5 I loved this entire series. I think that it is one of the best modern day romance series written to date. Well worth buying and adding to your cindy gerard series
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Harriet Klausner http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Harriet Klausner Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:23:01 +0000 http://bestholidaygiftstore.com/198/into-the-dark/#comment-532 Terrorists kidnapped Amy Walker, but made no demands for her release. Instead they raped and tortured the American. Several E.D.E.N operatives including Dallas Garrett rescue Amy. Subsequently she vanished, but Dallas knows first hand that out of sight means inside his mind as he has not forgotten her (see INTO THE DARK). <br /> <br />Six months since the rescue and he still thinks of her; wishing they met under nicer circumstances. Amy has gone into hiding because she knows the abduction was personal; her grandfather, a former Nazi medical scientist who experimented on his offspring (Amy's locked away mother), arranged for her kidnapping and torture. She fears she will never be safe so she turns to her hero whom she was attracted to when he saved her as her own blood is coming to spill her blood. <br /> <br />Fans of the Bodyguard series have been waiting since Dec 2005 for the return of Amy and Dallas; the wait was worth it as Cindy Gerard provides a great romantic suspense thriller. The story line is non stop action (it is a Bodyguard tale), but insures that former teacher Amy and her hero seem real and their relationship genuine. In many ways her grandfather steals the show from mostly Amy's impressions as an evil genius who goes OVER THE LINE of morality without a second thought even sending family TO THE BRINK of insanity. <br /> <br />Harriet Klausner <br /> Rating: 5 / 5 Terrorists kidnapped Amy Walker, but made no demands for her release. Instead they raped and tortured the American. Several E.D.E.N operatives including Dallas Garrett rescue Amy. Subsequently she vanished, but Dallas knows first hand that out of sight means inside his mind as he has not forgotten her (see INTO THE DARK).

Six months since the rescue and he still thinks of her; wishing they met under nicer circumstances. Amy has gone into hiding because she knows the abduction was personal; her grandfather, a former Nazi medical scientist who experimented on his offspring (Amy’s locked away mother), arranged for her kidnapping and torture. She fears she will never be safe so she turns to her hero whom she was attracted to when he saved her as her own blood is coming to spill her blood.

Fans of the Bodyguard series have been waiting since Dec 2005 for the return of Amy and Dallas; the wait was worth it as Cindy Gerard provides a great romantic suspense thriller. The story line is non stop action (it is a Bodyguard tale), but insures that former teacher Amy and her hero seem real and their relationship genuine. In many ways her grandfather steals the show from mostly Amy’s impressions as an evil genius who goes OVER THE LINE of morality without a second thought even sending family TO THE BRINK of insanity.

Harriet Klausner

Rating: 5 / 5

]]>