"What Do You Say To A Naked Elf" by Cheryl Sterling, a review in pictures. (SFW)
So I started reading What Do You Say To A Naked Elf by Cheryl Sterling, mostly because of the bizarre title.
It's a little silly, and it uses a few plot devices I'm not so fond of, but I've read worse.
However, regarding the hero's looks: I can't do the math.
The hero of the book, the elf referenced in the title, is supposed to look like Legolas, only with wings. (He's half-fairy, y'see. And this gives him Heroic Angst.)
I find Legolas kind of girly, looks-wise, but okay ... there are worse.
However, the elf-hero's name is Charlie. And we all know the Charlie with which I am most familiar.
So, elf + David Krumholtz aka Charlie on Numb3rs = a mental picture of Bernard.
Not quote Legolas.
Now, David Krumholtz is a damn good-looking man. And I have no doubt he could play a pretty sexy elf, if he were doing so in a different setting than a Santa Clause movie.
But I just can't buy Bernard as the hero of a romance novel.
And that was my main problem with this book.
(Okay, I realize it's not fair to pick on someone for not being swoon-worth at age 16 (or however old he was in that last pic), but I couldn't resist using it.
It's a little silly, and it uses a few plot devices I'm not so fond of, but I've read worse.
However, regarding the hero's looks: I can't do the math.
The hero of the book, the elf referenced in the title, is supposed to look like Legolas, only with wings. (He's half-fairy, y'see. And this gives him Heroic Angst.)
I find Legolas kind of girly, looks-wise, but okay ... there are worse.
However, the elf-hero's name is Charlie. And we all know the Charlie with which I am most familiar.
So, elf + David Krumholtz aka Charlie on Numb3rs = a mental picture of Bernard.
Not quote Legolas.
Now, David Krumholtz is a damn good-looking man. And I have no doubt he could play a pretty sexy elf, if he were doing so in a different setting than a Santa Clause movie.
But I just can't buy Bernard as the hero of a romance novel.
And that was my main problem with this book.
(Okay, I realize it's not fair to pick on someone for not being swoon-worth at age 16 (or however old he was in that last pic), but I couldn't resist using it.