Just One Touch (The Touch Saga Book 1)

In every single book I've ever read by her, the hero instantly loves her and wants to protect her. Okay, I'm cool with that That's his way of loving and protecting her. The women become doormats. That's not love, nor is it romantic. Read my review of Keep Me Safe to see how I feel about her latest books.

I'm not going to summarize it, but I will say that her heroines have become naive to the point of stupidity. I mean how did they ever dress and brush their teeth and eat food without the hero helping her do it? Her heroes are not heroes to me. They bulldoze into their heroines' lives and take over every single decision and independent thought they could possibly have.

I'm breaking up with her. I just can't do this anymore. It's painful to read. View all 9 comments. Jun 09, Mrs. Perkins rated it did not like it. Requires total suspension of disbelief. I mean, she's been living with a cult since she was four, but knows what a Goodwill store is??

Furthermore, the relationship just develops too quickly. It made me so uncomfortable for her to go from being"owned" by a cult and drug lord to being "owned" by Issac. Lots of repetitive writing, as well. I skipped whole pages where the author just said the same thing over and over again. May 17, ErinMickC rated it it was ok Shelves: In the beginning of the book, Jenna gets reintroduced into society after over 20 years of captivity by a cult since she was four years old.

Upon her escape from the cult, she finds herself stealing Isaac's car. The rest of the book revolves around Isaac trying to keep Jenna safe and Jenna trying to find a way to keep Isaac and the rest of the DSS crew This book was The rest of the book revolves around Isaac trying to keep Jenna safe and Jenna trying to find a way to keep Isaac and the rest of the DSS crew out of her troubles. What bothered me most about this book was Jenna's ability to function.

She was locked up for 20 years! Yes, besides a freak out when she first sees a TV, Jenna seems fairly normal in this book. She speaks in full, eloquent sentences and even tackles driving pretty easily. Also, Isaac doesn't know anything about Jenna when they meet and first start to feel out a relationship. He doesn't know her age he repeatedly wonders if she's even legal , he doesn't know what her damage is Even when Isaac and Jenna talk about Jenna's past with the cult and how she's so excited to be free, he still worries a lot about how he can keep her with him he contemplates tying her up and getting her pregnant.

Beyond Jenna's problematic reintroduction into society and Isaac's selfishness, this book also isn't anything ground-breaking for Maya Banks fans. Isaac's paragraphs and paragraphs of dialogue about his unending love for Jenna could have been spoken by any number of Banks heroes. Jenna's gift of healing others seems to strongly resemble Grace's gift from the KGI series. I wanted to love this book with the same passion that I have for most other Maya Banks books.

This one fell way, way short for me though. Copy for review provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Sep 06, Lyndi W. I started reading this a few days ago and gave up. Tried again while I have a free hour and I'm giving up again. The basic plot is interesting, but since chapter two it's been nothing but "Oh baby, I know we just met but you're my reason for breathing. I'll do anything to make you happy. I love you so much!

And Jenna is a mass of contradictions. She's weak, then she's stubbornly strong. She's ignorant and brainwashed, then she's a sassy sarcastic I started reading this a few days ago and gave up. She's ignorant and brainwashed, then she's a sassy sarcastic woman. But I don't like her. The hero is legit fantasy porn. They're in love within 24 hours and flowers are blooming out their buttholes when they look into each other's eyes. Maya Banks went way overboard here. Every corny thing ever said about loving a woman so deeply, about wanting to be a better man, about the love of a good woman changing everything about a man Did I already say it's fucking awful?

Because it's fucking awful. I wasted 37 minutes of my single hour of free time on this shit. In the first couple of pages, this incredibly sheltered woman who we find out later didn't know what a television was managed to drive off in a truck with a manual transmission. I struggled to finish this and am sorry I wasted my time doing so. Jun 01, Meghan rated it did not like it. Disappointed I love Maya Banks but this novel was terrible. I ignored all the other negative reviews and bought it anyways, i wish i didn't spend the money. It felt soo rushed and ridiculous i ended up just skimming the pages just to make it to the end.

Jun 17, Danna Hinton rated it did not like it. This was my first Banks novel and my last Banks novel. I haphazardly purchased this at an airport prior to vacation. This was one of the worst books I have ever read.

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Plot was weak, no character development. Cursing on every other page. I finished it but I lost brain cells in the process. Sep 17, Cheryl rated it did not like it Shelves: You can't protect me. Some more implied intimacy and sexy talk. I love you I'll protect you. Oh, and I'll keep you pregnant and having love babies.

I guess you really can protect me. I should have DNFd it. May 24, Andrea rated it it was ok. Did Maya Banks really write this? I was shocked at how fluffy this novel was, and not in a warm and fuzzy way but in a redundant this story could be told in 40 pages had it been edited way. Not to mention the number of time God was mentioned in the story I counted Just a dissapointment because I've loved Maya Banks early works and her latest works have not been the same quality.

Jun 20, LInda L rated it did not like it. This book was terrible - I can't begin to enumerate the ways. The main characters managed to make me hate them pretty quickly -- Jenna was a crybaby and Isaac was stupid. I did not read any of Banks previous books and have no plans to. This one was MORE than enough. Really, one star is too much. Jun 22, Kiley Kerr rated it did not like it. Oh my, what did I actually think?

This book started off with a bang and I was immediately pulled into this world Maya Banks created. But then it kind of died off. With little character development and a lot of repetitive phrases, I began page skimming to simply finish the book. I was slightly creeped out by the epilogue as well.

May 29, Deb rated it did not like it. I can't believe all the people who rated it high. This book is so bad and so far over the top. Jenna adjust to the real world far too easily. Isaac falls too fast for Jenna, and he doesn't even know her age, she could be a minor.

Maya Banks has definitely written. Don't waste your time or money. Jun 09, arabia rated it liked it Shelves: As is unfortunately becoming a long-established habit of Ms. Banks, Just One Touch had the hero falling deeply, madly, irrevocably in love with the heroine within a quarter of a second of being in her presence. During this time, Isaac gathers his band of merry men together to come up with a plan for her safety, and quickly dashes her off to a safe house, where he, as he watches over her, contemplates the following: He settled in, pulling her closer until they were skin to skin, and he closed his eyes thinking he was fucked.

Well and truly fucked Reluctantly, Isaac extricated himself, slowly missing her warmth and softness. Oh yeah, he was fucked in a big way And hope[d] to hell she wouldn't resist him becoming a very permanent fixture in her life. Inevitably, she wakes up from her slumber, noticing that Isaac has settled in next to her in bed because he just couldn't help himself: She went rigid and pulled away, her eyes slowly opening, but it gutted him when her gaze settled on him and panic swamped her entire face.

She immediately began scrambling backward on the bed. Yeah, I would think so! If I had passed out, woken up in a stranger's home in a stranger's bed, noticing I'm suddenly wearing clothes that aren't mine so obviously I'd been undressed at some point , I'd at the very least be screaming bloody murder.

Who in their right mind would think it's okay to jump in a traumatized woman's bed while she was unconscious?! Well, Isaac, of course! But instead of common sense finally seeping into his love-struck brain, he again contemplates the following: She nibbled nervously on her bottom lip, and he'd never been more tempted to suck that lip between his and soothe the damage she was currently doing to it.

And he still didn't even know her name, much less her story. Okay, so we've established that this girl is a mystery, and now finally Isaac himself realizes that, hey, he still doesn't know Sleeping Beauty's real name! So explain to me how he's so "well and truly fucked" to the point he's probably already naming their future kids?! To compound what's already becoming an annoying habit of the author's, she can't help but repeat the same word -- "angel" -- a total of 61 times! I get that he's "in love" and wants to use the term of endearment for her, but yeesh There were sentences like this: And yet she was an angel in a world that had shown her no mercy.

An angel with broken wings just dying to fly. And in case you didn't get enough: Isaac had called her an angel -- his angel -- in a tone of awe that made her think he truly did see her as an angel Aside from all of that, there were also lines like this: Her tops needed to be oversized, at least two sizes too large so they showed nothing of her curves.

She'd long cursed her ample breasts, curved hips and plump ass that men seemed to like staring after with a look in their eyes that scared her almost as much as the elders did. I know for a fact that this can't be true. I get that this is a book of fiction, and that in any book the author should be given a certain amount of creative license, but I learned the hard way that when you go hungry -- and mind you, this woman was starved on several occasions throughout her life -- that you will lose cup size s from your naturally large breasts.

Personally, I seriously dislike reading lines like that because it never fails to always take me out of the book. I don't understand it, I don't particularly like it, but I've been reading her books for so long at this point that stopping now seems like something I wouldn't do. But ye've been warned: This book is insta-love on steroids. May 22, Becca rated it really liked it. This series by Maya Banks is one of my favorites. It's just the right amount of suspense and paranormal to keep you riveted. And I devour the books as soon as they hit my eReader.

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Jenna is on the run. She was raised in a cult, sheltered from the world around her. So when she makes a run to leave, you doesn't quite know what to expect from the outside world. She hold a special power, that she's been abused because of. She is quite naive, which plays up to her charm through the book and hooks our h This series by Maya Banks is one of my favorites. She is quite naive, which plays up to her charm through the book and hooks our hero, Isaac. Isaac in the past books has been a mystery. He's a solitary person and so we really get to see the real Isaac in this book.

The two instantly make a connection. The book is full of surprises, suspense and a steamy love story. All the things you come to expect from a Maya Banks book. I would recommend reading the rest of the series first, just so you get a better understanding of the security firm, all of the secondary characters I've typically loved Maya Banks's books and I hate that I'm rating this one so poorly but I really did not like this book. DSS agent Isaac Washington is shocked to find someone trying to steal his SUV and he's even more surprised when he confronts the person and finds its a scared, battered woman.

Before he can adjust his thinking, all hell breaks loose and next thing he knows he's shot and dying. Then, to his shock, the mysterious woman places her hands on him and heals the mor I've typically loved Maya Banks's books and I hate that I'm rating this one so poorly but I really did not like this book. Then, to his shock, the mysterious woman places her hands on him and heals the mortal wound in his chest. From that moment on, Isaac vows to protect her with his life. For Jenna, all she wants is her freedom and she's horrified that her choices may lead to the suffering of others.

But she can't escape the protective reach of Isaac and DSS. They are bound and determined to save her from the evil man who wants her for his own. Fifth book in the Slow Burn series. There are a lot of running characters and references to past books, but I wouldn't say it would be impossible to read this one first or on it's own. There's no continuing storyline. I don't like writing a critical review, especially when it's for an author that I generally love and who is an auto-buy for me.

But yeah, I did not like anything about this book. I could have easily rated it 1-star but I gave it a bonus star simply because this is not typical for this author. My biggest problem with this book was the discrepancy in details. Jenna was kidnapped around 4 years old and held captive by a cult for at least 20 years. She was basically kept in seclusion and treated like a leper.

She has little knowledge of the outside world and modern conveniences or anything that is just normal to the rest of us. So I expected a good portion of the story to be the learning process Jenna faces as she tries to assimilate into the real world and that just doesn't happy. Here and there it's addressed but overall it's largely ignored.

Honestly, given the background that is built for Jenna I would have expected her character to be much stunted developmentally. I mean, I hardly think the cult people would have educated her and I would have expected the lack of positive emotional support and social interactions to have had a much greater effect on her. But other than a reaction to the TV and learning about food, her characterization doesn't fit at all with what we're told about her. It adds another level of unbelievably to the story. I also had characterization issues with Isaac - on several levels.

First, the character is horribly undeveloped. By the time you finish you know almost nothing about him. There are a few very vague references a couple times in the book to some past suffering, possibly being an alcoholic but the reader never gets a clear picture of who Isaac is. Where is he from? Are his parents alive? What happened to him in the past? There's nothing concrete about him prior to the start of this story. Now, I will add the caveat that it's possible past books gave more background on him but I read those ages ago.

I don't remember at all what may or may not have been revealed about him. And if the author did develop the character more in past books, it still should have been part of this one. If you are reading them as they are released, the average reader isn't going to remember details about a secondary character a year or two later. This lack of development for Isaac, though, really kept me from getting into the character.

Aside from that, he's a total over-the-top alpha ass throughout the story. Jenna has just escaped 20 years of hell being controlled and abused by a cult and Isaac takes one look at her and goes all controlling he-man. He is all 'she's mine,' 'you belong to me,' and when he starts talking about keeping her pregnant all the time so she can't get away from him I almost threw the book across the room. I get that he wanted to protect her and love her, but his thoughts, actions and words were just too much given the things that Jenna had been through.

It was completely unromantic for me. And the romance itself? There's the insta-devotion for Isaac which I could have dealt with if the story hadn't devolved into super sappy, mushy, sugary-sweet ramblings and professions of love that just made me roll my eyes. I'm not the biggest fan of super sappy anyway and I didn't like it at all here. It didn't fit the tone of the story either.

When I'm reading romantic suspense I don't want to read devotional soliloquys between the characters. From a storyline standpoint the book was okay. I could nit-pick over the fact that the premise of the storyline is basically a repeat of other storylines in this series - female character has special power and an evil person wants her to exploit the power.

I would have preferred some variation in the storylines but it wasn't a book-killer for me. I did find it to be a rather slow moving story with just a lot of sitting around and repetition, not enough development and action. What happens toward the end was so obviously a set up and that you had a group of badass agents fall for it was TSTL. It was like there was a big flashing neon sign screaming set up and they all fell for it. Given the danger Jenna was in, why was she put in that situation anyway, even if it wasn't a set up? Again, TSTL on all characters parts. And why were all the women there?

That made no sense at all to me. Then the finale seemed overly simplified. I just expected more from the plot of this book. It wasn't horrible but by far not the best I've read. I also think there could have been a little more time spent on the set up of DSS - what it is, who founded it, why, what they do, etc. There was a little bit too much of a reliance on the readers have read - and remembered - everything from past books.

Lastly, one of the things that bugged me most about this book was that there were these insanely long chunks of internal monologue - like pages long.

Primarily with Isaac thinking obsessively about Jenna - what an angel she is, how he plans to keep her forever and ever, how he'll do anything to protect her, how he'd never survive if anything happened to her. There was also Jenna thinking endlessly about her situation, how she doesn't want anyone hurt because of her, yadda yadda. Between the two of them, there's so much repetitive dead space in this book spent on their internal thoughts that it bored me to death. I can't count how many times I put the book down during these chunks because I was so bored from reading the same thoughts over and over and over again.

It also signified the overall lack of action in the story. I admit that I did start to skim read some of these chunks as the book went on. I wish I could give a few good points to the story but there really wasn't anything that jumps out as me as something I enjoyed. I honestly was just glad to finish it. I expected so much more from a Maya Banks book.

I will continue to read the series as I'm greatly hoping this book was an aberration. I know the author has multiple series going and also that she's been going through some very serious health problems which makes me feel like a jerk for writing such a negative review I apologize to the author for the critical but honest review! Best wishes for a speedy recovery and I hope your health is on the upswing! Issac's story and a very good one. Now I have to wait for Tori and Dane's story until next year: To read this book you need to suspend your beliefs, which sounds weird seeing as how I have it labeled both Romantic Suspense and Paranormal Romance right?

Just go with me here. Of course when you read anything with paranormal elements you have to suspend belief. Men Out of Uniform. March Silhouette Desire. Maya Banks KGI series 1- 4. August Silhouette Desire. Blogger Bundle Volume VI: How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long. The title should be at least 4 characters long. Your display name should be at least 2 characters long.

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Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. Buy the eBook Price: Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. In this series View all Book 1. Ratings and Reviews 9 star ratings 9 reviews. Yes No Thanks for your feedback! Well written the story kept you goig and not wanting to put it down. Powerful characters in the book grabs you by the heart and doesn't let you go … Show more Show less.

Fantastic on May 26, Well Maya you have done it again. Issac Washington seemed like such a strong badass character but once he met Jenna we saw his softer side. With Jenna' s special power to heal and save people she had been forced to use her power for evil. Once she met Issac he only wanted to protect her. So many ups and downs in this book but you know in true Maya Bank's story telling this was going to be a great ending.

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Maya is my most favourite author and she never disappoints. Keep writing and I will keep reading. Thanks again Maya … Show more Show less. I enjoyed the story line of all of the Slow Burn Series. Just One Touch was particularly moving.