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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #174351 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-01
• Released on: 2008-12-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781605040271
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent, emotional and deeply stirring M/M romance.
This latest from Ally is excellent. Her 2 characters are not your usual M/M romance eroticas stereotypes. Both men are dark characters, with haunted and depressing pasts. This is their love story as they meet under unusual circumstances and find love, solace and salvation in each other's arms.
Leon is not a good guy at all as he is a top assassin without conscience. His is a dark past as he is recruited from young while serving prison term, and trained to be the best killer in his organization, which could be government owned. His life changes the night he comes home and finds his lover eviscerated. He seeks revenge, finds it but is unable to move on.
Grim is the innocent young man with a haunted, equally dark and disturbing past. His is one painful life as he has been abused into submission from a tender age.
Yet their paths cross under very unusual circumstances and there is no turning back for both men as they realize how much they need each other to heal.
The plot is exciting and tense as Leon's powerful organization want them dead. Their escapade is heart stopping. If this has been a regular gay romance, I am sure the ending would have been tragic. But this is M/M romance erotica and I for one am glad it is so. The emotional pull of the story is powerful from page 1. Grim's healing as the story progresses is touching as is Leon's care and love for Grim.
As for the sex, it is just so sexy and hot.
An excellent emotionally driven romance from Ally. If you do not have kindle get this e-book release from the publisher. Not to be missed.

Untamed Hearts- A Joyfully Reviewed
As a trained assassin, Leon Fisher kept his emotions at bay when doing a job, but this last kill was personal for Leon. He wanted revenge against the man who tortured and murdered his lover. He quickly learned that revenge doesn't heal a broken heart, it doesn't stop the nightmares and it doesn't stop memories, but the bottle does - at least temporarily. Leon quickly found himself falling deeper and deeper into the bottle and losing his grip on his life.

His downward spiral incited the organization he worked for to step in and intervene, by sending Leon to Alaska to dry out and recuperate on private government property. The fresh air and the solitude help to clear his mind and while out hiking he encounters Grim, a young man who lives alone in the woods. Grim saves Leon's life and takes him to his tiny cabin deep in the woods to nurse him back to health. The days turn into weeks and Grim and Leon give into the sexual attraction they feel for each other. Leon finds himself wanting more from the mysterious young man and even though they both have secrets from their own pasts they have yet to reveal it doesn't stop them from needing and depending on each other.

Untamed Heart is fantastic! I started this and read the whole thing in one sitting. I've always been an Ally Blue fan and this story solidifies her spot in the top ten with me. I love Leon and Grim. Leon's harsh on the outside, but on the inside he's a very caring man. Grim, wormed his way into my heart from the moment he was introduced in the story. Both of them have very checkered past lives and they have no problem with doing whatever it takes to survive yet there wasn't a coldness about them. They both found a way into my heart- especially Grim. I loved this story. I loved it for the characters, the action, the intrigue and the angst. Ms. Blue did a fantastic job and I joyfully recommend Untamed Heart.

Ley
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Untamed Heart by Ally Blue
Lately I find so good books that I wonder if my "taste" is changing, since these books have strangely some things in common: the hero is not a good boy, and give the fame of bad boys as good lovers this one is not a strange thing, but he is also a criminal, and not repentant...

Leon is an assasssin (yes same name of the assassin by Luc Besson). No matter that probably he works for the government, he is still an assassin and he is well paid for his work. But one day he is back home to his lover Ted and finds him tortured and murdered on their bed. As an assassin should do, he tracks down the serial killer who has done that and kills him. But killing him doesn't bring peace in Leon and also he is not good at his work like before cause his emotions are unleashed and he is no more able to focus. So the boss sends him to a private refuge in Alaska, to heal his mind.

Here Leon starts to go out from the foggy that has dumped his mind but a strange accident happens and he is rescued by a reclusive boy, Grim. Grim apparently is 20 years old and lives alone in the wilderness. He arrived six years before with a man, John, who was also his lover. But Grim has strange reactions, like a beaten animal, and given that he was only fourteen years old when he met John, Leon begins to imagine what type of relationship Grim has had with John.

Two lost souls, two damaged minds who need each other to heal. An almost claustrophic setting, which sometimes made me thing to a Stephen King's tale. With this novel Ally Blue reaches the level of my favourite books by her: Easy and Forgotten Song. Ally Blue has gained the title of Queen of Angst, and with this novel she strengthens her right to the crown.

What it is good in this novel which makes it different from the usual romance? Well, let say, in an usual romance plot, the hero, faces with the choice to kill the villain, who can't defend himself, probably would have made an honorable choice as leave him alive and deliver him to the police... here he kills him with a shot to the head. And in a normal romance women usually are the good one, who try to make peace and held you an hand when you most need it... here you have to watch your back, cause they are the worst.

Leon and Grim are quite similar in strenght and pain. True at first Leon is weaker in body, for an injury, but Grim is weaker in mind, due to his horrible past, so it's like a hand wash the other hand: working together they do a better job. There is no master or slave in this relationship, no top or bottom. And meanwhile Leon helps Grim to heal from his past, he doesn't know that he is helping himself to heal from his own past.

Strongly reccomended, plus it is the first time since a lot that I read in rapture also the sex scenes, that sometime bother me: in this case, they are right and good, for the plot and the reader.