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Mackenzie's Legacy: Mackenzie's Mountain\Mackenzie's Mission
Linda Howard
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Wolff and Joe.......2007-04-04
I thought the premise of this series was fantastic. It deals with bigotry, hate, and love. Reading about Wolff and his son Joe meeting their match in Mary is such a joy. Then knowing what Joe goes on to do with his life is just superb. I really wish that she had gone on to do books on the other brothers.
I love LH's Mackenzie Men and Woman ..........2007-01-24
Don't miss these installments in the Mackenzie family saga by Linda Howard. Mackenzie's Mountain starts the series off and Mackenzie's Mission follows along seamlessly. Strong passion, strong men and stronger women makes them modern Romantic Fiction at it's best!
These are my all time favorite leisure re-reads!
Howard Never Fails to Deliver.......2007-01-16
Linda Howard writes so wonderfully that you actually feel as if you are physically a part of the story. Very emotional and true page turners. Mackenzie's Mountain and Mackenzie's Mission are some of her best work.
Mackenzie's Legacy.......2006-08-08
I own all books about the Machenzie's. This series is my favorite by far. I have read them over and over so many times I could recite them out loud. I have read many series of books by different authors, but this series is THE BEST. Buy it and read it. You won't be sorry.
love them all.......2006-07-29
i can't belive these readers have never heard of linda howard.
i read at least one book per day and i must say linda howard
is the best author out there. i have read all of her stories
at least 2 or 3 times each, and will continue to read them
again at a later date.
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I liked Joe better in "Mountain".......2004-04-09
Give me the determined 16 year-old from Wolf's story, rather than the domineering 35 year-old here. This older Joe really didn't live up to his potential from the first book. Yes, he has achieved his dreams but he is harder and more pushy in this book. Rather than seducing Caroline into a relationship he basically just informs her that he will have her - no romance at all. He calls her "my woman" more than he does by her name, and their sex scenes are all lust, no tenderness. Yes, the sex is hot, but when Joe tells Caroline "you'll lose your cherry" I actually cringed. Is he a grown man or a frat boy? He doesn't hesitate to suspect Caroline of a crime and then just gives her a light apology afterwards. I guess we are expected to chalk it all up to a stereotypical fighter jock mentality, but I was hoping he'd turn out more like his dad, whom I adore. Probably not fair of me, but there it is.
Hot, hot, hot. Joe MacKenzie is awesom.......2004-03-05
I loved this book. Joe MacKenzie is sexy personified. His control, strength, and sexuality left me breathless. This book is one of a series of five MacKenzie books. I can't wait to track down the others! I'm a new Linda Howard fan, that's for sure.
An excellent MacKenzie story.... :).......2003-07-10
The follow up to MacKenzie's Mountain. This is the story of Colonel Joe "Breed" MacKenzie and Caroline Evans, Physicist and computer geek. They meet while working on the Night Hawk, a top secret military air craft. He is the project manager and she is a civilian working for a private military contractor.
Their romance is combustible although they go through a rough spot of mistrust. He suspects her of sabotaging the project. It all gets cleared up in the end, however after some exciting twists and turns. Joe is a sexy dude and has the sensitivity to handle the skittish and innocent Caroline. Their romance sizzles.
I love the MacKenzie series and think that Linda Howard should keep going with this fabulous family. I am a huge LH fan. Other books in this series are: Mackenzie's Mountain, A Game of Chance, MacKenzie's Pleasure and MacKenzie's Magic.
#2 in THE MACKENZIE SAGA --- #1 SON.......2003-03-28
It took Colonel Joe "Breed" Mackenzie till he was 35 to get hit with cupid's arrow. Must have seemed imperative to develop him into a legend.
Joe loved his aircraft but was curious about the replacement to the laser division, Caroline Evans. His mental assessment of her kicked his hormones into overdrive. Her opening sass caught his attention.
Caroline got along with most of her workers Cal Gilchrist and Yates but had problems with Adrian. The resolution of their sniping at each other was a bit of a surprise.
Didn't like the slowing down of the meat of the story to concentrate on the deliberate seduction and Caroline's silly surrender. But that is how she goes!
Interest picked up again when Caroline became a suspect in the possible sabotage downing an F-22. Even more interesting was her reaction when she realized that Joe questioned her involvement.
I really liked the part where Joe opens up and we find out about the children that Wolf and Mary have had. Michael, their first born is now 18, and Joshua is 16, he appears to be a jet freak like Joe at his age, then there is Zane. He appears intense, silent and dangerous, like Wolf. And they finally got their daughter, Maris who is like her dad, who is sheer magic with horses. Ah, the magic of family. Joe is proud of them and loves them intensely.
Now back to the good part. Caroline, through some realistic deduction finally gets an idea of who is responsible for the skrewups and decides to tackle the party on her own. Another stupid move on the part of a woman. Joe ends up following her and walks into an ambush which ends up leaving them high and dry in the desert.
Breed's emotions are so intense by now that he decides to marry Caroline. There is nothing like shared danger and experiences.
Wolf and Mary get their first grandson [not even a 50/50 bet according to Mary] John Mackenzie. I wonder how long we will have to wait for his story.
DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED except for the lack of moral judgement.
Just hope L. Howard remembers there are more Mackenzies out there.
MACKENZIE'S MISSION.......2002-08-24
LINDA HOWARD IS THE BEST. THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE BEST. IF YOU HAVE ENJOYED HER WORK IN THE PASS. YOU WILL LOVE THIS. I PURCHASE HER NEW BOOKS WITHOUT READING THE BACK COVER. HOWEVER THE PUBLISHERS DO HAVE A PRACTICE OF RELEASING OLD TITLES AS NEW BOOKS. THE AUTHOR CAN REQUEST THAT BOOK BE IDENTIFIED AS A REWRITE BUT HAS NO CONTROL OVER THIS. THIS PARTICULAR BOOK IS A "MUST READ!!!"
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African adventurers
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie
Manufacturer: The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions and the Missionary Education Movement of the U.S. & Canada
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African clearings,
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B00085CZLY |
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An African trail,
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie
Manufacturer: The Central committee on the United study of foreign missions
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B00085P4AI |
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Booth-Tucker, sadhu and saint,
Frederick Arthur Mackenzie
Manufacturer: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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ASIN: B00086Q9C4 |
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Friends of Africa
Jean Kenyon Mackenzie
Manufacturer: The Central committee on the United study of foreign missions
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Product Description
The complete series of Linda Howard's favorite family - The Mackenzie's! Wolf and Mary; Joe and Caroline; Zane and Barrie; Chance and Sunny; Maris and Alex.
Book Description
Jory Rask is a professional shockball player. The fastest runback in the game, she is loved across Terra. But Jory Rask has a secret that she's lived with for twenty-four years. In a xenophobic world that despises aliens, she is not quite human...
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
A girl with a secret finally comes undone. The main character is a
player of a professional football type of game that is violently
opposed to aliens. She has a hybrid heritage, and a broken down knee,
and when discovered, is forced to leave. What she finds is a lot worse,
ending up in the middle of a nasty military operation and conspiracy,
fighting for her life, becoming a hired killer, and trying to overcome
species prejudice.
An interesting story .......2006-12-05
Jory Rask is a shockball player. What the heck is Shockball? I have no idea, still didn't by the end of the story but it sounded a bit like American football. Except this book is set in the far distant future when the planet Terra, in a colossally xenophobic manner, won't let any aliens live there. Unfortunately for Jory her mother comes from another planet, called Joren, and therefore her daughter is a half-breed. When Jory's mother dies and her secret is discovered she is forced off the planet. She sets off to her father's homeworld on a mission to find the other six half-Jorens and tell them about their true history - that they are the result of a rape on their mothers. Jory wants to find her father too and kill him but all she has is a name. On her way to Joren she meets a "Blade Dancer", a fantastically skilled warrior who suggests that Jory enrols in training to become a Blade Dancer too.
When Jory arrives on Joren she finds that her relatives do not welcome her with open arms and neither do the other children of the rapes. She and they are forced off the planet and make their way to the Blade Dancer academy - and find themselves in a dangerous and difficult environment as they try to survive and learn to deal with a hostile world.
The story moves along really quickly. There is characterisation, plot, description and yet you never feel that it's dragging. There's a gentle love story (although neither protagonist has an ounce of gentleness!) and lots of stories of people who feel that they are unimportant learning to harness their different skills. I wasn't always entirely sure of all aspects of the plot but it was an interesting read nonetheless.
A Good Book But...........2005-11-03
BLADE DANCER is, in many ways, a very fine book. It reminds me of the best qualities of that good ol' action-adventure sf. For the longest time, that area was a male-only genre, until CL Moore and Leigh Brackett proved women were just as capable as men. I rather wonder if one of the names isn't a sort of tribute to Moore's Jiril of Jory.
The action is fast and intense, and there's a lot of it, and it seems to go in a direction, rather than be merely a string of incidents. The characters are well-portrayed and one develops affection or the reverse for them. The aliens are sufficiently exotic to match the other virtues.
I had only two problems with the book, but they kept me from giving it more than three stars. **SPOILER ALERT** The first was the "Luke, I'm your father" routine, which was ancient when Lucas used it. The other was the happy ending. I do like happy endings but in this case it seems to not have been a natural development of the characters or even the universe as established earlier in the book, but appears rather like a suspiciously large rabbit being taken out of a very small hat. I'm still glad to have read the book and do recommend it, but with a caveat.
Blade Dancer.......2005-10-17
A book that I had to read in one sitting.
This book ties very nicely into the Stardoc series.
Half-Jorenian Jory Rask is a heroine with humor and valor.......2005-09-29
Jory was one of the finest Shockball players on Earth, until it was discovered she was half-Jorenian and kicked off the xenophobic planet. When her mother died, she gave Jory an undertaking; to go to Joren and find the rest of the half-Jorenian children who were the results of the same 'raid-and-ravage' from which she was born.
Including Jory, there are seven half-breeds. Once Jory delivers her message to them, a message of truth, the others decide to join her in her quest. Jory is off to learn how to become a Blade Dancer, the deadliest of assassins, in order to hunt down and kill the biological father that violated her mother so many years ago.
The gang is trained on Reytalon in the Tana, to become Blade Dancers, but in the midst of the tests of strength and endurance, the seven must learn to trust each other also. And even Reytalon is not immune to conspiracy and evil alliances with the warring League and Hsktskt factions. Will what these seven learn at Reytalon be enough for them to avoid the same fate of their parents?
S.L. Viehl is one of my favorite authors. Definitely lighter than most of my other fare, Viehl is always able to bring in tense, taunt situations with realistic and likeable heroines, and create a story that I can literally pour myself into.
Her worlds are extraordinary, her characters so real that I would know them on the street, her aliens imaginative and believable, and her plots thick with action and adventure.
I was introduced to Jorens in Viehl's StarDoc books, and was intrigued to see a darker side of their clannish ways in Blade Dancer. Viehl gave us a little peek at just how stubborn those big blue guys are.
If you liked the 'StarDoc' series, you will love 'Blade Dancer'. 'Blade Dancer' is a good starter book to introduce yourself to Viehl's writing also, though I promise you will be running for more of her work when you finish. Enjoy!
Book Description
Foo Needs You
·Over 500 recipes, covering every craftable item in the game
·Maps to guide you through the treacherous island of Foo
·Detailed Lunabilities section to make your spell casting count
·All side missions detailed
·Creature compendium to get the best of your foes
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Blade Dancer
S L Viehl
Manufacturer: ROC BOOKS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UDDS8S |
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12 Track Music Soundtrack
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Blade Dancer
S. L. Viehl
Manufacturer: Roc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000V9QMS4 |
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Great ideas and insights, let down by sloppy editing.......2007-04-11
The central idea of this book really resonated with me. Since I was very young, I had learned to avoid, deny and bury my anger with compulsive beahviour and a host of other remedies, all of which had some major consequences for my well being.
I'm giving three stars becasue I feel the book is let down by some really sloppy editing. eg p 105 "Men are taught that their anger will scare, and their tears disgust, women."
I usually don't write reviews, but I feel the sloppy editing could make it hard for some people to take the material seriously. When you're being distracted from what the author is saying to HOW he/she is saying it, the message is weakened.
Also, the author includes a chapter entitled "No to Criticism." I feel this chapter was completely unnecessary. In contrast to his insightful writing in the other chapters, in this chapter John Lee comes across as defensive and patronizing.
In spite of these quibbles, the material's positive aspects definetely outshine the negative aspects. The wisdom here is profound, with little of the fluff or wishy washy concepts found in so many other self-help books.
I do reccommend this book, and will be reading John Lee's other book "Growing Yourself Back Up Again".
Superb if releasing anger is tough.......2004-02-02
This book is for people who have trouble with releasing their negative emotions. John Lee explains effectively the benefits from emotional release while at the same time providing some techniques for helping people with repressed anger that are simple, down-to-earth, and reasonable for people to use. This book has helped me a great deal personally, and I think it will help anyone with depression or difficulties releasing anger.
Breakthrough In Understanding Anger.......2003-08-07
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Mr. Lee's approach to discharging/expressing anger safely is RIGHT ON. Many people might think that by expressing anger - they will become more angry. In reality, you are uncovering the suppressed anger that has been inside of you all your life. You are merely becoming AWARE of it. We spend our entire lives stuffing/repressing/avoiding/medicating our anger. We will do anything but FACE it - and get it out.
The good news. The amount of suppressed anger inside us is finite and can be discharged. Mr. Lee would be interested in knowing that a retired neuroscientist (Ellie Van Winkle) has discovered almost exactly the same thing about anger. Her free therapy - "Redirecting Self Therapy", teaches a unique way to safely release anger - free without a therapist. Can't provide a link here, but you can do your own search later. What Ellie's theory gives us, is a biological explanation for what John Lee expresses throughout his book.
Also, John Lee has a unique theory about mental illness. Basically, he believes that trauma causes us to continually try and recreate the circumstances of original trauma, so that the mind has a 2nd opportunity to heal itself. Well, Mr. Lee, you might find the following of interest from Ellie Van Winkle:
"The fantasies in which I lived for close to sixty years were unconscious attempts to recreate early traumas and provide a stage wherein I could redirect my anger toward my parents."
Anger is connected to just about every mental/emotional disorder under the sun. Discharge that anger and your mind begins to heal.
Not helpful for most angry people........2001-10-22
Two reasons I would not recommend this book 1) Was not an appropriate fit. The books title or description should point out better that this books is for people who can't feel, or always suppress anger. If you have a problem of inappropriately expressing anger (like myself), this book has some decent ideas, but really is not for you. Reason 2) - I cannot find that the authors have any credentials other than their personal experiences (which only relate to stuffing anger, not being too angry). Not only is the support for their stance only anecdotal, it is often contradictory. I have learned myself, and they also write, that most of our anger, and the way we deal with it are learned responses to our environment. While we are all born with the ability to be angry, we all learn different ways to deal with it, some appropriate, some inappropriate. Yet, just after stating this, the book goes on to say that we can do very little with our anger cognitively, 'as it is a feeling of the body, not the mind'. That is only one example of the many contradictory stances. There are many other statements that I just cannot agree with. Whether you have a problem with stuffing your anger, or expressing it too much, I would not recommend this as a first book as there are others that would be much more helpful.
Facing the Fire, by John Lee.......1997-11-18
As a therapist working with people who have anger issues, I cannot praise this book enough. This is the most definitive book about anger on the bookshelves today. Most authors try an intellectual approach to dealing with anger, but Mr. Lee goes to the heart of the problems and explains why we need it, why we avoid it, and most importantly, how to deal with it appropriately. I ask all my clients (I do group therapy with abused women who have a lot of anger) to read this book so they will have an understanding of what they and others are facing in their healing work. Also, a great book for non-professionals, because it explains anger and confronts in everyday language myths and misconceptions about anger. A must have for anyone who deals with anger (Don't we all?).
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