Best were-wolf novel ever written!
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Moved by a fascinating premise and characters that are not clearly evil or good, 'The Silver Wolf' is a fascinating book.  Fast-paced, intriguing, thrilling and with a plot full of unpredictable twists and turns.  Perhaps  the only reason that I did not give this book five stars is that the  central romance of the book is made possible by a quaint coincidence and  all the built up tension dissipates usatisfyingly as a deus-ex-machina  ending is offered to the romantic element of the story.  But this is only  on small facet of the novel and its fascinating historical background,  adept usage of language and the dual-nature of its protagonist make it a  book well worth reading.  By far the best treatment of the were-wolf I have  read ...AND BELIEVE ME I'VE READ A LOT.
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If you haven't read anything in this series, start with this book. It tells the story of how everything begins: the cycle, the compound, the hunt of the Urbat.
Charlene is only fifteen but she acts mature beyond her years. You might too, if you had the power she wields. It's an amazing power and one of the mysteries I'd been waiting to learn about.
Her romance with Thomas is different from many of the others in this series. I enjoyed the realism depicted between them (if a human with super powers and a werewolf falling in love can ever be considered realistic). It wasn't all about physical attraction. Thomas has to put aside his feral instincts and learn about being human. Charlene also has to make a few compromises.
Melissa Haag tells exceptional stories. I was immersed from the second scene (the first is a connecting link to the rest of the series). If you like paranormal romance, you will want to read this. If you are a member of Team Jacob, you will find these wolves even more appealing than anything you've encountered.
Buy this book. Read it. Then go back and read the rest of the Judgement of Six series: Hope(less), (Mis)fortune and (Un)wise. It will make you hungry for the next installment, due out in early 2015.
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Just when I think C.j. Ellisson could not write anything better than the VV Inn series, here she comes with this book that tells a story of a werewolf that becomes part of her series. Definately worth its' weight in gold. A must read if you loved the VV Inn series. If you haven't read the VV Inn series, then... YOU MUST!!! :)
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I think this is Barry Lopez's finest book - it combines scientific fact  and historical perspective to produce a potent work on a fascinating animal  and its often-troubled relationship with man.
If you are at all  interested in wolves, read this book!
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It doesn't get much better than rocker werewolves! I loved this book. The story was exciting and the writing brilliant! From "killer" instruments to kick ass fighting.  I hope he writes another one! Rock on!!!
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Bryn is as bad ass as any female can be. She's kept to herself, mostly, her whole life while living amongst a pack of werewolves. At the beginning of the story I found myself a bit confused by the dynamics of the pack and its rules and how the humans in the book came into it, but after a few chapters I felt my confusion subside and I was absolutely delighted. Barnes brought me into a world where not only did a pack full of werewolves have laws and government, but also, that treat the humans within the pack like possessions. This book was really well written and I adore Devon! *swoons* Right from the time that you meet Chase you understand why Bryn is so drawn to him and then one or two visits later it makes total sense.

In the pack, Bryn has never truly followed the rules, until she wants to meet Chase, a new Were. He's being held captive in the basement of the pack leader's, Callum, home until he can be tamed and learn control. Then he will join the pack. Since Bryn was attatcked, along with her family who did not survive, by a lone wolf, she want to understand Chase and his experience to maybe help her regain the memories that she cannot recall.

While the powers and things of being a werewolf don't really change much than other books,  it's unnecessary because there are other factors that are different and hypnotizing about this pack of werewolves. Bryn's world and her many relationships, strange and not so much, make this a great book all around and I will be buying the next book, Trial by Fire, on its release date, which happens to be June 14th.

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Can't say I would either!  WOW!!  What a fangtastic bite!  It's a wonderful bit of werewolf lore.  NOT!!  That is a line more suited to whence it came - the story itself because this is so much more that just a wonderful bit of werewolf lore!  This is one gritty, passionate & intense story that I CANNOT get enough of!  This is not for the faint of heart, but WOW!! Is it ever hot & PAWESOME!  This story is bold, hot, a no-holds-barred kind of wolf tail and giving it that raw edge is the first person narration.  I love just how unique this story is with it being set in the future, with cool future tech, laws, and more, but of course the part that was my favorite  everything about her werewolves!  Their history, process, way of life, pack rules, etc.  It just all flows pawfectly together into one helluva story that I can't wait to see what happens next!  Tamara had me under her spell right from the cover, let alone the actual story, but that story - it has me panting for more!  Tamara is definitely a FANGTABULOUS author who has grabbed my attention and I cannot wait to read ALL of her books!  Which I will be doing while waiting for the next installments in this GRRRIFIC series!

I was gifted a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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I first read one of Russell Cera's books several years ago, and was very impressed. That book was Cry Wolf, Cry and I was amazed at how this man managed to give voices to this pack of Wolves. I was hoping that he would do this again. And my wish, finally came through.
As an owner of 5 dogs, 3 German Shepherds, a Golden and a Labrador Retriever and knowing full well that all dogs are descended from Wolves, I was blown away by this book.  Once again, the wolves were given voices, and this time there were our pre-historic ancestors who also were given voices.
This man has a vivid imagination, and you quickly settle down listening to our far distant relatives as they for the very first time manage to domesticate a wolf - to become the creature that now brings such warmth and comfort to our homes.
Kudos Mr Cera, you have done it again!!
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The best way to start off this review of Graeme Reynolds's High Moor 2: Moonstruck is with a glance back at what I had to say about the original High Moor:

I truly loved this book. Once I started to really read it, I finished the novel in a day and a half. Whenever I put it down, I found myself coming back to it almost impulsively. I haven't been this addicted to something since I downloaded Angry Birds. Recommended without reservation to anyone who is a fan of horror or anyone that wants to be. High Moor is the kind of book that will make converts of us all.

 It goes without saying that I was anticipating High Moor 2 immensely, but also with some trepidation. After such a great debut, could Reynolds keep it up? Was there any way that he could match the intensity of the original, the page-turning ferocity of its werewolves? Would we end up with a mindless retread? More werewolves, more killing, more boring? I was afraid, my friends. Well, now I've read the book and I have my verdict.

 Not only is High Moor 2 an incredible ride worthy of my expectations, indeed, it accomplishes something truly rare--it surpasses the original.

SPOILERS AHEAD

 High Moor 2 begins precisely where High Moor left off. John Simpson is in police custody, accused of brutally murdering (and eating) several people. The love of his life, Maria, is in the morgue, the authorities under the impression she is dead. Meanwhile, werewolf hunter Steven is in a coma, with the first stirrings of the beasts he has spent his life hunting surging through his blood. Meanwhile, teams of werewolves are on their way to High Moor, intent on destroying the evidence and keeping the existence of the pack a secret. And that means killing John Simpson.

END SPOILERS

 One thing that is certainly the case--if you liked High Moor, you will like this book. Reynolds writes as if the last book never stopped. The style is crisp, the story doesn't seem forced, and the action doesn't let up. New characters are introduced with ease, and Reynolds makes us care for them almost immediately. Which just makes it all the better when werewolves start eating them. I'm going to repeat from my original review, because it is appropriate here.

The werewolves in Reynolds's novel are of two varieties. Most can change at will, controlling the beast within while also harnessing its power. Others are "moonstruck," able to change only upon the full moon. They are wild and vicious, and the pack werewolves hunt them down, lest they reveal their secret to the world. And let me tell you, there is a lot of hunting, a lot of fighting, and a lot of killing. No character is safe in Reynolds's world, and that he establishes this fact early on heightens the tension in every werewolf encounter. His descriptions of the attacks are so rich and vivid that you will see them in your mind's eye with a clarity normally reserved for movies. And it is that talent with description that may be Reynolds's strongest suit. The man isn't just writing a scene. He is creating a world for his characters to inhabit.

This book is amazing. It has some of the most gut wrenching scenes of horror I have ever read, and Reynolds is an absolute master of an action scene. If you haven't read the High Moor series, don't worry. These books are so good that I fully expect they will have a Hollywood treatment at some point in the future.

Verdict: Reynolds has knocked it out of the park. High Moor was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award. I wouldn't be surprised to see High Moor 2: Moonstruck win the whole shebang.

5 Stars
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I actually "bought" this fantasy novel years ago but it got lost amid the hundreds of other free books that I have in my Kindle library. I just came across it by accident the other day when I'd finished the last book of a series and was looking for something to read and opened to a random page and was intrigued by the title so I downloaded it and from the first sentence, I realized that I had struck literary gold!!

This book was an absolute joy to read from the first sentence to the last! It had everything going for it: wonderful writing style, excellent editing (and I consider that to be VERY important!), fantastic imagery so that you could almost experience what was happening right along with the characters, extremely realistic characters, even the made-up creatures were described so well that they were definitely believable (and scary as hell!!!), very realistic dialogues which seemed like actual conversations and not like you're reading a book, really awful villains but who still seemed to be real people, and last, but certainly not least, the truly marvelous character of Bogg whose developing relationship with his great-nephew, Simon is, of course, the heart behind the wonderful sword-and-sorcery adventure story.

I wouldn't limit this book to a specific genre because when something is good, it simply crosses boundaries, and this book is more than good; it is grea!! I definitely recommend it to people of all ages (actually 12 and up is probably more realistic since I'm over 60) and both genders and I suggest that if you want to enjoy a superior reading experience, that you download this book ASAP!! Happy Reading!
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This is one of the few original werewolf stories I've read in a long, long time. Nancy A. Collins takes you on a no-holds-barred walk through the wild West or, as the subtitle calls it, the weird West. It is, in turns, brutal, violent, honest, truthful, sad, hopeful but, at all turns, very well written. This is a story of redefinition and living in very different worlds; Walking Wolf, never knowing who his parents really are to begin with (and, therefore, not exactly a part of the Comanche tribe that raises him) leaves his Comanche life mostly out of self-guilt for a crime that is a crime in only his eyes and becomes Billy Skillet in the world at large (the world of the White Man, as it were) and, through a  series of turns and events that I don't want to delve into for fear of ruining the story for a first-time reader, ends up living with the Sioux tribe. Even when he finds his own people and gains a family, he is always an outcast and always dealing with loss. He attains noble victories of high morality at a high cost. Collins manages to make a perfect blend of both the horror and Western genres. I was personally amazed at how seamlessly she weaved actual discussions of the history of Native Americans into Walking Wolf's first-person narrative. None of it is heavy-handed nor distracting. In fact, it adds to the story. We've all heard of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and maybe Red Cloud, but how many times have we seen or heard of the likes of Rain-in-the-Face, Black Kettle, Little Robe, Blue Horse, Dull Knife, Pawnee Killer, Little Thunder, Spotted Tail, etc? She's done her research. This is also one of the few books where the cover almost makes the book. It's a picture of a Native American brave with a wolf's head seamlessly transposed on its body; the wonders of photoshop or did someone actually go through the effort of blending two negatives in the dark room? Either way it's an awesome picture. You have to see it to believe it. This is a book that should ever remain in print for the simple fact of seeing a writer can go out on a limb and step completely out of genre distinctions and blend things together to make a grand tale. I'd almost go so far as to say this is more for Western readers who have always ached for something different, but I think horror readers would be gravely, hugely mistaken for missing it. Undoubtedly a five-star book.
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Wolves can never be domesticated. Good book, a real classic. Should have read as a young man. Never too late!
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I LOVED Book 7 in the Iron Wolves MC
Series by Elle Boone. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I absolutely loved this book!  With Turo being an extremely alpha, powerful and older wolf, he could have easily become the Alpha of the pack. However, he doesn't want to deal with all the hassles and problems hat being the Alpha would require him to constantly deal with on a daily/hourly basis. He just doesn't want the responsibilities heaped on his head. So after searching, he joins up with the Iron Wolves where he meets a woman named  at the Iron Wolves clubhouse but totally doesn't want her or anything to do with her at all. . . That is until he realizes that she is his mate and the fast paced action and adventure begin. I like how this is a stand alone book but we are still see glimpses of the characters from previous books and meet new characters which I sure we will see in future books. This book did not disappoint me in the least. The hero and heroine were well developed characters and the story flowed smoothly with the twist and turns, ups and downs we have come to expect from Elle's books. I love that they get their own HEA and that we know that we will be seeing them again in future books. . We meet up with a lot of the characters from the other previous books in the series. Elle Boone has definitely hit another home run with this newest book!  I can't wait to read the best book in the series! I highly recommend this book to other readers!
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Leah St. James was stuck in wolf form and since she no idea of who or where she comes from. She thinks she might be going nuts. How is she a wolf? The only thing she can hang on to is the man in the room with her.
Azriel is a wolf shifter this brother is alpha. When his pack find wolves his evil father has made they take them back to Westervelt. So far no one has made it until the shewolf. She us different and he couldn't bare if anything happens to her. His brother laughed and told him what should have been right in front of his face. Their mates!
So now he has to find a cure for the wolves his evil father made, deal with his father, get his mates memories back and get her out of wolf form. Oh yea just keep doing the impossible or is it?
I really loved this obe, loved the idea of fate bring mates together and accepting each other and their magic gifts.
The characters are fantastic, their easy to connect to. I can't wait for the next book in the series. Shifter fans don't miss this one.
Voluntarily reviewed a free copy and I honestly LOVED it
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The Wolves of Craigellen are not to be missed!  Read the trilogy to find out Why!  This complete set gets 4.5 stars!

Last Alpha

How far would you go?

What extreme measures would you take to be a werewolf? Wealthy, obsessed, eccentric millionaire Jonathan Carr paid a fortune towards werewolf research in the guise of cancer research. He hoped Dr. Lillian Lee and team of scientists can make his dream come true. Jonathan was a survivor of a brutal werewolf attack that killed his father and he has secrets. What are his true intentions towards both Billy Stewart and Jenny Layne?

Billy Stewart (Scottish, alpha werewolf) thought he kept his secrets well hidden. He was sought out and hired by Jonathan Carr who funded his expeditions. His expeditions are to travel, chase werewolf stories, and gather evidence. He met Jenny Layne in America on one of his quests for other werewolves and misconceptions have kept them apart. She didn't believe him and considered him a madman. Will he be able to save her in Scotland? Which shifter is her mate?

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Rogue Male

I give 4.5 stars and a Top Pick to Rogue Male!

What extreme measures would you take to be a werewolf? Iain Logan betrayed Skye Parker in the worst possible way. He sold her out to Jonathan Carr (obsessed, eccentric millionaire) who is up to no good again. She cared deeply for Iain. How could he betray her like that? Will she ever forgive him? Will he be able to save her in the end?

Beware! Evil and Jonathan Carr go hand in hand. Iain just can't see Jonathan for being a smooth operator with a secret agenda. What are Jonathans nefarious plans? What's wrong or different about Iain?

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Snow Wolf

Just Wow!

Just wow! Snow Wolf is the stunning conclusion of the three-part series. I had fun revisiting previous characters from last two books of the series. The situation between Jonathan Carr and Billy Stewart comes to a breaking point. Read to find out how.

Be warned that the story is not a short read. Its under 300 pages of great storytelling. I highly recommend Ruby Fieldings stories.

I give 4.5 stars and a Top Pick to Snow Wolf!

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This is one of the BEST series ever in the history of shifter books! Completely original, new type of wolf, well written, and (get those fans out) sexy. 2nd book in the series and it's completely different from the first book with sexy Bez (just had to get his name in there). Well, except for Levi is a Dire Wolf too. He's the kid of the group, the lover, the joker ( he's a midnight toker, jk, sorry) but a lot of that changes when he's given a job to do. There's a pack with an omega that needs help, only it turns into more when he recognizes her scent. Yep it's his mate. When Levi sees her he turns all alpha and away he goes! Great storyline, Ellis Leigh fans are gonna go nuts. I was lucky enough to get a complimentary copy in return for a fair and honest review. If you've never read anything by her this series would be a great place to start. Of course, this could be read as a stand alone but I strongly suggest you start with Savage Surrender with the sexy Bez in it or better yet, start at the very beginning with Claiming His Fate. It's free right now on Amazon and by the time your done, you too will be a Ellis Leigh fan!
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can't believe it's taken me a full week to read this book! Darn work commitments getting in the way! I'm a big fan of Kelley Armstrong, especially her books in this series that deal with werewolves. Clay Danvers made my Top Ten Fictional Crushes list. So of course I was happy that there was more!

This novel is divided up into 4 stories that delve deeper into the lives of a few of my favorite werewolf characters. The book begins with Infusion. It's short, only about a chapter, and to the point. It explains how Jeremy ends up the head of Stonehaven over his father, Malcolm.

The second tale: Savage, was a pleasure to read. Clay as an adult is a little socially inept but as a child he was down right primitive. I loved the way Kelley brings his troubled childhood to life. It was such a different point of view than is typical of werewolf literature. Most of the novels I've read have been about teenage or adult werewolves but Clay is a special case. It's hard to imagine what would happen to a child if they got bitten by a shapeshifter and were left to understand it all by themselves. Armstrong's point of view is unique and well-written.

Men of the Otherworld also gives us a glimpse of what Jeremy was like before he became alpha. In the regular series he's such a strong character but in this book he's young and vulnerable. We learn that his father was a poor role model and that he was far from being the next in line for  pack leader. He earned the status that he achieved not by being the biggest or the strongest but by challenging the norms and forging his own path. He also had many friends that helped him along the way when he wanted to give up.

Ascension is as the title suggests: Jeremy's path to alpha. It's also the story of how Clayton becomes his second and how he earned his bad ass reputation. I flew through this story. I was already in love with the members of the American Pack so this book was like the icing on a cake for me. Not essential but oh so sweet!

I found that the chapter titles really added to this novel. They were comprised of one key word that summed up each chapter beautifully. Each name had my head buzzing with possible directions the story might take and made me eager to read on to find out.

Finally, Kitsunegari, a short tale that leaves the reader hanging and wanting more. A new supernatural is introduced with an interesting link to Jeremy. It left me contemplating what it all means but stuck without an answer! I guess that's what a great ending to a great book is supposed to do. But oh the torture!

The second tale, Savage, was my favorite out of the four tales. Kelley Armstrong's brilliant writing on how a young werewolf loses his humanity and survives in the wild on his own captured my heart and made me love Clay even more (if that's even possible!). Not to mention his struggle (although at first reluctant) to regain his humanity with Jeremy's help. I've also developed a better understanding of Jeremy thanks to this book and am now hard pressed to pick a favorite male werewolf when previously Clay was the clear winner.

Werewolf lovers rejoice! This book will make you fall in love all over again with this genre. Men of the Otherworld can be read on it's own without the rest of the series as it happens before the other books (except Kitsunegari). So you have no excuse not to read this book!