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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 read with caution Sep 01, 2006
By lynne rivers
"best read!"
The Prisoner of Nimm is Tessa E. Colby's second installment in her Varda series. Unlike the first book the Changing of Jazzadeem this book is a laborious and frustrating read.
Frankly, I was shocked the book had made it to print! The entire book was in desperate need of an editor. Typos, lack of punctuation and confusing grammar are in abundance. The narrative is confusing and way too long.
I found myself rereading sentences over and over again and they still made no sense! Who needs to work this hard?
I bought this book because I wanted to know what happened to the characters first introduced in the Changing of Jazadeem.
The story of the Varda and Kirran was an exciting and unique spin on the paranormal sci-fi romance genre. Unfortunately, Colby chose not to allow the reader to connect with familiar characters until more than halfway through the story.
I also thought Colby introduced too many characters, all with hard to pronounce names. Each character had their own history,their own place of origin etc. I won't list them because it's just too tedious. Colby made no attempt to develop the characters enough for the reader to care about them anyway.
I was thirty pages in before I began to understand who the hero and heroine were. Unfortunately neither Dulci nor Torrein is interesting enough to warrant wading through almost 500 pages of muck. Torrein is a pale shadow of his older brother Aidan, the hero of The Changing of Jazadeem. I kept hoping for more right to the bitter end. I finished this book with difficulty.
If you enjoyed the Changing of Jazzadeem and are looking for more of the same you'll be disappointed.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 The Prisoner of Nimm Apr 02, 2007
By Hanna Bailey
"Got Romance.net"
I saw the review Lynn made. That she sited type-o's in the book then she herself mis-spelled Jazadeem struck me as funny. The last Steven King Novel I read I stopped counting typo's at 36...I see a lot of books and I am no longer phased by a few typo's.
Lynn also stated that Colby introduced too many characters...anyone who has ever muddled their way through any one of the last five novels by Laurel Hamilton (BEST...selling author)would be in heaven here... The Prisoner of Nimm is easily followed. I didn't understand when she said..."characters with confusing names" Zan - Gray- Galan - Hiro - Angel - Lord Fallon - Dulci - Fillip...hummm ...yeah...really complex names...there was one...Lar-san-cou...he was Dulci's father... that name was real troubling with pronunciation...It was spelled out just the way it sounded.
I felt that it was a well done follow up to "The Changing of Jazadeem". I absolutely love these Varda men. They are already infamous on-line for being the hottest hotties going on. I like that they have morals and scruples...and that with all their "Gifts" ..they are still fallible. They are shaping up to be the next Super-Hero's. The Prisoner of Nimm started where the other left off. It had good action scenes...and sexy moves between the two main characters. I appreciated that Torrein tried to behave himself and not jump her bones first thing. The opening scene where they size each other up is hot. I hated...and loved the villain...MORE...I fell in love with ZAN..."God...if you are listening...I want one of these." What a cutie...and the interplay and sarcastic bantering between him and the assassin was a riot. I thought the story was laid out very well. The follow through of this is "The Tempting of Fate"...which I thought was the strongest to date. By all indicators..Colby and The Chronicle is just getting better.
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