Eat Prey Love (Love at Stake Book 9)

I read Interview With A Vampire many decades ago when it came out and at the time there was not really anybody doing what Anne Rice did way back when. Now, many decades later we see that her style has sparked a whole industry with each author trying to put out more original ideas using the same theme. Sparks actually manages to give us a relatively original story. If you are an Anne Rice fan or the genre then Eat, Prey, Love is recommended.

What a fantastic book. Shifters and vamps...he'll yes! You know what that means...hot sex.the plot was well thought out and had enough background story that you weren't left asking what I missed. The family atmosphere was good, you could feel the love of all the characters. Bravo, Ms.Sparks, bravo!

The story of Caitlin and Carlos' love is filled with action. As Carlos looks for a were Panther mate, Caitlyn tags along to interpret for him. They find more than they bargained for as evil vampires, were tigers, and a cult drop into their adventure.

I'm having a hard time understanding anybody who gave a bad review of this book. I read this book in like 17 hours. I enjoyed the female character Catalina because she knew what she wanted and accepted the fact that she is a sexual being and women love sex just as much as men maybe evenmore. I'm so bored with women who appear to be sexually timid until they have sex. This is definitely on of the great ones.

I found this story very interesting but only up to a point. Since I don't want to totally spoil it, let me just say that the main characters, Caitlyn - a human woman, and Carlos - a shapeshifter/werecat, did not have a real feeling of chemistry between them and what did happen seemed way too fast considering how both of them were brought up.

However, all that aside I was still going with the flow reading this story when a couple of real big plot twists were thrown into the mix. To my dismay, the one plot twist was just way over the top and, for me, ended up making to story just unbelievable. Yes even within a paranormal world, the things that happen around and to these characters just didn't seem to belong in this book.

Not really recommended unless you are stuck in bed and bored, which I was due to foot surgery when I read this book.

Typical of the smutty jump-on-the-bandwagon paranormal. Tries to be cute and funny ala Christine Warren, but misses and comes out just corny. (Vampires teleporting? Really?) In between bouts of our hero and heroine mooning over their attraction to one another, the author tells rather than shows the story and you just can't feel any connection to the characters. I skimmed most of it and I know I won't miss anything by skipping any other books by this author.

Kerrelyn Spark's novel is another attempt to capitalize on the current mass obsession of the macabre and supernatural, while providing a decidedly adult flair akin to a dimestore romance novel. While the books is reasonable well written for a mass market paperback, there are some notable flaws. First, the protagonists identity as a ware-panther seems to stretch the bonds of the genre, much as they did with the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Unfortunately, the were-panther theme holds even less appeal than it did in those novels. The other issue concerns the "adult" portions of the program: every time the author attempts to write about adult themes, they come off as corny or trashy or both simultaneously (something exceedingly difficult to accomplish, but not a reason to praise the book), rather than the raw sexual potency that I'm sure the author was after. The adventure sequences are, for the most part, passable. However, this is certainly not a book to share with a teenage audience as the sometimes graphic portrayals of sex and violence, and often sex with violence, do not belong in adolescent hands.

Wow,what a story.Carlos and Caityln were two totally different people but when love enters the picture anything can happen and usually does.Vampires,Panthers,wolves and a tiger oh my.What would you choose to be?

Eat Prey Love, although not literary greatness was a fun read. There were enough snarky comments to keep me grinning and the story was well paced and interesting. Carlos, the main male character is a were-panther attempting to resist his intense attraction to a human woman, Caitlyn. Caitlyn has no problems with going after the man she finds irresistible and the rest of the story follows their search for further were-panthers (Carlos is one of the last of his kind) and their inevitable romance. The writing is fairly well done (my expectations are not usually high for romance novels), however there was one laugh-out-loud, unintentional Dr. Suess moment of dialogue I'm sure it was not meant to be funny. I'm surprised the line editor missed it.

"And of course, Howard Barr is a bear."
"A bear?" Caitlyn motioned toward the dining room. "There's a bear over there? Where?
"There." Shanna pointed at Howard. "A were-bear."

Although I didn't fall in love with the characters like I have in other books, it had enough steamy moments to keep me reading until the end. The moments of danger seemed a little under developed, with little explanation to why certain things were happening (the clay covered bodies would have been much more interesting if I understood more of what they had to do with the plot and gotten a little background on them), but not enough to make me stop reading. Overall I found Eat Prey Love, to be a fair enough romance novel with a little room for improvement.