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Gillie is a fugitive, determined never to be bound again. Because of her special gift, her former captors intend to retrieve her-by any means necessary. Taye can't remember much about his past, but with a bounty hunter hounding them, he'll do anything to assure Gillie's safety and preserve her innocence...for himself.
- Sales Rank: #2221937 in Books
- Brand: Berkley
- Published on: 2011-07-05
- Released on: 2011-07-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .85" w x 4.19" l, .33 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 304 pages
- Great product!
Review
"Ava Gray is a must read." --NYT bestselling author Larissa Ione
From the Back Cover
She can't remember what home is like...
Gillie is a fugitive. She has the scars to prove her long-term incarceration, but the story would land her in a padded cell if she presented it to the authorities. Now that she' s free, she' s determined never to be bound again. But her extraordinary healing is too valuable to let go, and her former captors intend to retrieve her--by any means necessary. Which doesn't bode well for her dream of a normal life.
He can't remember wanting anything more.
Taye can't remember much about his past, but he knows he's not worthy to give Gillie her happily-ever-after, so he's determined to preserve her innocence, though she tempts him more than any woman he's ever known. With the clock ticking and a bounty hunter hounding them, he faces the most important task of his life--assuring her safety from the Foundation. No matter the pain of his own deferred desires.
Gillie doesn't understand how he can resist the charge between them. And if Taye has his way, she'll never know the sacrifice he's making to keep her alive...
About the Author
In her life, Ava Gray has been a clown, a clerk, a savior of stray kittens, and a voice actress, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in a terracotta adobe house with her husband and two adorable children who generally do as they are told. In this guise, she writes high octane paranormal romances; she also writes romantic science fiction and urban fantasy as Ann Aguirre.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Not as satisfying as the previous books in the series.
By Sandra L. Powers
The character of Gillie, introduced in Skin Tight, really flowers in this novel. She's a great character who has been through a lot - and continues to go through a lot - and comes out the other side strong and whole.
But the more she blossoms, the more her male lead Taye seems to wilt. He could be fascinating but instead he shifts into an all-too-typical 'I live only for you' romance hero.
You can feel the love between Gillie and Taye ... but the repetitive themes, emotions, even conversations, render the relationship somewhat tedious. Taye is being a dumb ass and Gillie is too patient and you rather wish something would happen.
In addition, I found the two secondary romantic threads of the book involving Mockingbird and Kestrel to be unsatisfying in the extreme. I was especially disappointed that the Kestrel thread didn't go further.
Meanwhile the action pieces of the story have become odd and disconnected. The end of the book - and if I read rightly this is the end of the series as well - caught me unawares. Too much of the important plot action happened off-screen.
Keeping the romance front and center is one thing; having the viewpoint characters so distracted that you only get snippets until - boom! - you are at the finale is something else again.
[Originally posted at DarkUrbanFantasy.]
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
So much potential, but the author rushed it and did not give us a complete or well thought out story.
By Jane
STORY BRIEF:
The Foundation takes human prisoners and experiments with them - creating special powers. Gillie was kidnapped when she was 12. She was a prisoner for the next 12 years. Her ability is healing others. Her captors link her blood to someone with cancer. The cancer patient is healed, and Gillie's body takes on the disease. Then they use kidney dialysis to cure Gillie. Taye can channel electricity from power sources through his body to burn and kill others. He can also open locks and used magnetism to move metal. There are several characters in this story with a variety of powers.
Taye and Gillie met while they were prisoners. Taye orchestrated their escape by modifying surveillance equipment, starting fires, and opening locks. They and other patients escaped. The Foundation wants them back and has hired thugs and a mercenary to get them. Mockingbird is the organizer of former patients who now work together to help other patients and fight the Foundation.
Taye and Gillie were on the run together for ten months. But it was getting too dangerous so they agreed to work for Mockingbird in return for his help.
REVIEWER'S OPINION:
I assume the author was under pressure to churn out another book with a too-soon-deadline. Things were not well thought out. Some events did not have enough details. The major conflicts in the story were Taye keeping secrets from Gillie for no rational reason. Taye's ability created a cancer in his body. Each time he used electricity, the cancer grew worse. He was unable to eat and was wasting away. The more he used his power the sooner he would die. He and Gillie were in love, but he kept this a secret from her. If he had told her, she could easily cure him. She would feel some pain for a few hours until kidney dialysis could clean her blood. Then she would be fine. But would Taye tell her he was sick? No. He planned to die without telling her. His reason was he didn't want her to feel any pain. Big deal. That was her role in all of this. She would heal others, feel their pain for a while, and then be ok. Taye kept this secret for far too long. It was not a good plot.
Taye also created another conflict that I could not understand. Taye and Gillie loved each other and hungered for each other sexually. But for some stupid reason Taye refused to have sex with Gillie. This was the main conflict for ten months. I didn't enjoy that part of the story which was the first 110 pages of the book. I still don't know why he wouldn't have sex with her. He didn't want to hurt her, but his rejection hurt her.
At the end of the book Taye again does something illogical and unnecessary that hurt Gillie. I won't say more so as to avoid a spoiler. It was unreasonable and artificial.
Examples of other things not thought out or lacking details: (1) Mockingbird's past and present. (2) Not enough told about the leak in Mockingbird's organization. We learn who did what, but it felt superficial. (3) Toward the end Gillie sort of knows Taye is sick, but we don't get to see how she learned it or her conversations with Taye about it. (4) Gillie is part of a team to fight some bad guys, but she takes no weapon. She had been taking lessons and shooting at a shooting range for a while. Why didn't she take a gun? She waited until Taye killed a guard, and then she took the guard's gun to use. (5) Tanager had in interesting ability. When she used it she was required to have sex with any man afterwards (to balance things out somehow). I wanted to see some of her pay-the-piper sex scenes. None of them were shown.
At times I was confused with the bird names. Taye's code name was Crow. Silas' code name was Hawk. During the story the author went back and forth calling various characters the different names. Several times I was asking myself - now who is Hawk? Or which one is Taye?
The suspense and action were pretty good. The major flaw in this book was the relationship and story between the main couple - not good since this is a romance novel. Part of the problem was that they loved each other from the beginning so there was no room for relationship development. It's much easier to see a couple start out NOT liking each other and then watch things change. Here, it was one person refusing to have sex and also keeping a secret. I think the author should have done something very different for them.
I did enjoy a side story relationship between the mercenary and Kestrel. But their story was a very minor part of the book. I would have enjoyed more about them.
DATA:
Story length: 280 pages. Swearing language: strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 7. Total number of sex scene pages: 18. Setting: current day mostly various places in the U.S. Copyright: 2011. Genre: paranormal romantic suspense.
THE SKIN SERIES:
You do NOT need to read them in order. The reason for the following is because I felt a need to read my reviews of earlier books before starting this book. Seeing these notes would satisfy that.
4 stars. Skin Game (Book 1): Kyra can gain abilities from people for a short time. Foster works for her enemy and hires hitman Rey to kill her. Foster has special abilities from being experimented on as a child by Micor Technologies. Foster is a minor character in this book. The main story is Kyra and Rey.
3 ½ stars. Skin Tight (Book 2): Foster gets a job with Micor. He wants revenge. He interacts with Mia. Micor held several people as prisoners - doing medical and genetic research. At the end of this book a group of victims escape.
3 ½ stars. Skin Heat (Book 3): Zeke is one of the escaped victims from Book 2. He can mentally communicate with animals. He can hear and smell things other humans can't. He has lost the ability to read. He gets a job with a vet.
2 stars. Skin Dive (Book 4): Gillie (whose blood can cure cancer and other illnesses) and Taye (who has electrical powers) are two of the escaped victims from Book 2.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Poignant and exhilarating, anyone who loves the X-Men or the Dirk and Steele series
By Bookaholics Reviewer
Skin Dive by Ava Gray
Paranormal Romance - July 5th, 2011
4 ½ stars
The latest in the paranormal Skin series features two wounded individuals trying to make a new life away from the evil Foundation.
Gillie has powers to heal. Unfortunately, healing others causes her deep scars and pain. For over a decade, she is the prized lab rat in the Foundation's top secret facility. Although she has been given a small apartment, she knows she is being monitored 24-7 and is sexually coveted by the man in charge. But one day ,Gillie is surprised when a young man named Taye is placed in her cell. At first she is very afraid but soon realizes that Taye made a deal to meet her. In exchange, he will cooperate with the Foundation's nefarious experiments, but these experiments are taking their toll on Taye.
They quickly realize they must escape. With the help of another captive named Silas, they are finally free. But at too soon, they are all being hunted. Then, they are contacted by a mysterious man named Mockingbird. He and his agents also have supernatural powers and fight the Foundation. He asks them to join their fight. Gillie wants to stay with Taye forever but Taye has no memory of his past. He feels dirty and used up. Plus his powers are slowly causing him irreparable physical damage. He agrees to work for the Foundation because he loves Gillie (and wants her free) but knows he doesn't have long to live. But the only way to keep her safe is to push her away...
This was an exciting installment to the Skin series. They all remind me a bit of the X-Men- only better! (The story on Silas is featured in the anthology Primal and I think reading that short adds a bit to this book, since it mentions more about Mockingbird and his agents.) I really enjoyed how the author gets the reader involved in the relationship between Gillie and Taye. Sometimes I did get a bit frustrated with Taye for always saying he wasn't good enough but the depth of emotion between the main characters more than made up for that small quibble. Gillie is very young and although inexperienced in life, her tragedies made her very mature. She wants Taye, no matter how much he tries to push her away. Reading about their `last' days together is very poignant because the tender chemistry between them felt so real. You just know that they could never find another person who would match or understand them half as much. The only thing that surprised me was the ending which makes me think this may be the last book in the series?! I really hope not since I love the mastermind, Mockingbird, and would love to read a story featuring him.
Poignant and exhilarating, anyone who loves the X-Men or the Dirk and Steele series by Marjorie Liu will find a haven in this series.
Reviewed by Steph from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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