STORY 1 Brandt Talbot and Maggie Odessa Settings: Borneo
Maggie will be tricked by Brandt and she will go back to her birth place in the rainforest of BoSTORY 1 Brandt Talbot and Maggie Odessa Settings: Borneo
Maggie will be tricked by Brandt and she will go back to her birth place in the rainforest of Borneo in order to see her inheritance. There she will discover that there are family secrets, that Brandt has trapped her in order to bring her close to him and that she is about to go through a really painful and life-changing experience.
Everything was different the moment Maggie Odessa set foot into the jungle. She was different. She felt it.
There will be insta-love, but the good thing is that Maggie will be present with a choise in the end. Nothing will be forced – although Brandt initially manipulated things.
"Say you'll stay with me, live with me, Maggie, learn to love me, here in the rain forest where you were born."
The books from this series are like candies for readers that love shifters’ stories. There is the steamy jungle, the leopard shifters, the phace a young woman needs to go though in order to achieve her first metamorphosis which is strongly related with sexual awareness.
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STORY 2 Rio Santana & Rachael Lospostos Settings: Borneo
Rachel has run away from danger. She disappeared from her home in the States with a new identity in order not to be murdered by her drug-lord uncle. Her parents were murdered when Rachel and her brother Elijah were children. Her uncle let them live and her brother has been heavily involved in the drug empire. What Elijah never told her is that he can shift into a leopard and that possibly she can shift too but this has not happened yet.
Rio is an outcast. He lives far away from his people’s village because he killed the human who killed his mother in her leopard form in order to get her pelt. The law of his people states that no leopard shifter should kill humans for such crimes.
When Rio’s “kittens” injure Rachel, she ends up in his bed at the jungle trying to recover. Rio realizes that there is something strange about Rachel – especially when he starts having memories about her from a different lifetime. Could they have been related somehow? Could they be soulmates?
"Does she remember you?" "I think she does sometimes. I see it in her eyes. And she admits to being just as confused as I am."
There is the mystery of who wants to kill Rachel and who Rachel really is. There is also deep sexual tension between Rio and Rachel. A big adventure that involves traitors, assassins and family members who have kept well hidden secrets will bond the couple.
"I know what sestrilla means, Rio. You are calling me beloved one.”
However, beyond doubt jungle and its fauna are the protagonists of this book. ...more
Στην αρχή το πέρασα για παρωδία βιβλίων τρόμου και αναρωτήθηκα από ποτέ ο Τριβιζάς άρχισε να γράφει βιβλία για μεγάλους. Ίσως με μπέρδεψε το εξώφυλλο Στην αρχή το πέρασα για παρωδία βιβλίων τρόμου και αναρωτήθηκα από ποτέ ο Τριβιζάς άρχισε να γράφει βιβλία για μεγάλους. Ίσως με μπέρδεψε το εξώφυλλο που αν και εντυπωσιακό (με λεοπαρδάλεις, νυχτερίδες και μαύρο χρώμα) δεν έχω συνηθίσει να βλέπω σε παιδικά βιβλία.
Τελικά όμως ήταν παιδικό το βιβλίο. Σίγουρα ευφάνταστο. Σίγουρα με σκηνές τηλεοπτικού/κινηματογραφικού χαρακτήρα. Και σίγουρα με το γνωστο τρόπο που ο αγαπημένος Τριβιζάς περιγράφει πρόσωπα και καταστάσεις χωρίς να βγάζουν απαραίτητα κάποιο νόημα, αλλά που σε κάνουν σίγουρα να χαμογελάς. Είναι χωρίς αμφισβήτηση εκπληκτικός λεξιπλάστης.
Υπάρχει ένα μυστήριο που πλανιέται στα πρώτα κεφάλαια. Γιατί κόλλησε το δάκτυλο του Νικολάκη στο κουδούνι όταν εκείνος πήγε να κάνει σκανδαλιά; Ήταν ατύχημα ή παγίδα? Αλλά το μυστήριο λύνεται σχετικά γρήγορα όταν εμφανίζονται οι ιδιοκτήτες του κουδουνιού. Μετά το μόνο που σε αγχώνει είναι το πως θα ξεμπερδέψει ο μικρός απο την κατάσταση στην οποία έβαλε ο ίδιος τον εαυτό του.
Επίσης σου μένει η κακία των διαφόρων περαστικών που αντί να βοηθήσουν ένα άτακτο μικρό παιδί, προτίμησαν να τον κοροϊδέψουν, να τον εκδικηθούν, να τον κλέψουν, να τον εξευτελίσουν. Άκαρδος ο κόσμος μας δυστυχώς....
Να προσθέσω τέλος ότι όταν ξεκινήσεις το βιβλίο και το εξώφυλλο αποκτά νόημα, αλλά και θα απολαύσεις την υπέροχη ασπρόμαυρη εικονογράφηση του Στίβεν Γουέστ....more
Cats and wolves are having a party! For precisely, the young males and females from the DarkRiver leopard pack and from the SnowDancer wolf pack are haCats and wolves are having a party! For precisely, the young males and females from the DarkRiver leopard pack and from the SnowDancer wolf pack are having a good time together at the house of Mercy and Riley. It is definitely nice to see these two so different packs mingling, building tight bonds and bridging their differences....more
This was about murder… and the greatest lie that had ever been perpetuated by a race upon its own Sascha Duncan (Psy) and Lucas Hunter (Changeling)
This was about murder… and the greatest lie that had ever been perpetuated by a race upon its own kind.
This book is an impressive start to a series that I have a feeling that it will become one of my favourite PNR series.
Psy-world is an interesting different new world. I haven't read anything similar before to be honest. The Psy have great psychic powers, but not feelings or desires. They basically live in two worlds: 1. The real world which also includes Changelings (shifters) and humans. 2. The PsyNet which is like Internet, except it’s made up of minds, not computers. I would also compare it with the movie Matrix. It is actually a place where Psy “meet” and “socialize”.
Shifters are the normal shifters that we meet in most PNR books. They can transform into animals and they live in packs. We learn about two packs: 1. The DarkRiver leopard pack 2. The SnowDancers wolf pack These two packs coexist in neighbourhood grounds.
In terms of mating, there can be only one lifemate for each Changeling.
Lucas Hunter is the Alpha of DarkRiver pack and he is a black panther. He will meet Psy Sascha Duncan , while he tries to find the Psy killer who keeps butchering Changeling females. When another girl is taken, Lucas runs out of time.
Sascha lately is not well. She is scared to death and she tries to hide it before she is locked away in a “rehabilitation facility”. Her main problem is that she has started having feelings, emotions, physical reactions in these emotions. This is not normal for a Psy. She is defective. The fact that she needs to work so closely to Changelings that they are overflowed with feelings and they are so close to their animal side, does not help.
Gradually we will learn that Psy have secrets. Their own lack of emotions is a deception imposed to them in order to make them less dangerous.
I enjoyed the writing style and the way the story and the world building is exploited. The mystery with the serial killer has a obvious solution, but I really did not mind this. I wad satisfied with everything else.
------------------------------------------ (view spoiler)[2010: I think I will start this series. I heard it is good. 2012: Maybe this year, I will start it. It has shifters! 2013: Damn. I think I will try it next year. I have already started two new series. 2016: This is the year I will start this series. This January. After I finish this trilogy. And the new Black Dagger Legacy book. And maybe a couple of books I started last December. 2017: Why haven't I started this series yet? Why? Why? Why? 2018, January: I am definitely starting this series next month. Oh, look new books by Larissa Ione! Oh God!
2018, June: I am officially declaring Psy-Changeling series my challenge for this summer!!! (hide spoiler)]...more
Rachel has run away from danger. She disappeared from her home in the States with a new identity in ordRio Santana & Rachael Lospostos Settings: Borneo
Rachel has run away from danger. She disappeared from her home in the States with a new identity in order not to be murdered by her drug-lord uncle. Her parents were murdered when Rachel and her brother Elijah were children. Her uncle let them live and her brother has been heavily involved in the drug empire. What Elijah never told her is that he can shift into a leopard and that possibly she can shift too but this has not happened yet.
Rio is an outcast. He lives far away from his people’s village because he killed the human who killed his mother in her leopard form in order to get her pelt. The law of his people states that no leopard shifter should kill humans for such crimes.
When Rio’s “kittens” injure Rachel, she ends up in his bed at the jungle trying to recover. Rio realizes that there is something strange about Rachel – especially when he starts having memories about her from a different lifetime. Could they have been related somehow? Could they be soulmates?
"Does she remember you?" "I think she does sometimes. I see it in her eyes. And she admits to being just as confused as I am."
There is the mystery of who wants to kill Rachel and who Rachel really is. There is also deep sexual tension between Rio and Rachel. A big adventure that involves traitors, assassins and family members who have kept well hidden secrets will bond the couple.
"I know what sestrilla means, Rio. You are calling me beloved one.”
However, beyond doubt jungle and its fauna are the protagonists of this book....more
Maggie will be tricked by Brandt and she will go back to her birth place in the rainforest of Borneo inBrandt Talbot and Maggie Odessa Settings: Borneo
Maggie will be tricked by Brandt and she will go back to her birth place in the rainforest of Borneo in order to see her inheritance. There she will discover that there are family secrets, that Brandt has trapped her in order to bring her close to him and that she is about to go through a really painful and life-changing experience.
Everything was different the moment Maggie Odessa set foot into the jungle. She was different. She felt it.
There will be insta-love, but the good thing is that Maggie will be present with a choise in the end. Nothing will be forced – although Brandt initially manipulated things.
"Say you'll stay with me, live with me, Maggie, learn to love me, here in the rain forest where you were born."
The books from this series are like paradise for readers that love shifters’ stories. There is the steamy jungle, the leopard shifters, the phace a young woman needs to go though in order to achieve her first metamorphosis which is strongly related with sexual awareness. ...more
No matter how much I adore this series or how much I anticipated this book or how much I wanted to read about a re"Not coyote, @sshole. Red wolf."
No matter how much I adore this series or how much I anticipated this book or how much I wanted to read about a red wolf shifter, it took me a while to finish it. And that was because the beginning of the book is so slow. There are a lot of explanations about the shifters and the shifters’ towns and their behavior. Maybe a small prologue in the next books from now on would be better for the new fans. For me, some of the explanations especially about the shifters’ behavior were not really necessary.
So, during the first chapters, I missed the tension and the humor some of the previous favorite novels have.
Moreover I definitely disliked Jaycee, the leopard shifter and I was not really warm to Dimitri, the red wolf shifter. We have met them both briefly in the “White Tiger” where Jaycee wanted someone she could not have (Kendrick) and she was a completely bitch towards his future mate and Dimitri obviously wanted Jaycee hopelessly.
Things will be smooth-running really quickly in this story with Jaycee forgetting about Kendrick, becoming a close friend of his mate and thinking of the mate-claim by Dimitri.
From Chapter Six onwards, the real adventure begins. And I loved it!
Dimitri and Jaycee will need to go to New Orleans and investigate a group of shifters that behave strangely. There, they will meet -Ben again (who desperately needs his book and his HEA), -the group of shifters that believe in goddess but they do not exactly behave accordingly -their mysterious leader and bear shifter, Brice -the remarkable sentient lonely HOUSE with the strong personality that we met in “Wild Things”.
Thus slowly but surely, I was lost once more in the incredible world of powerful shifters who were forced to wear collars in order to be controlled by the clueless humans. I was lost in the magical world of arrogant Fae who like to treat Shifters like animals. I met again old characters (Tiger, Zander and Dylan) and I was introduced to new ones (Lady Aisling, Angus and Casey).
And I started believing in the Happily Ever After of the lonesome and scarred Dimitri and the difficult-to-trust-and-to-show-love Jaycee.
Dimitri only looked at her. He didn’t reach for her, only watched, his gaze intent on her. “What?” Jaycee asked irritably when he didn’t move. Why didn’t he grab her, try to kiss her as he had at the club last night-anything? “I was thinking how beautiful you look in the sunshine,” Dimitri said. No stammering, no pause while he struggled over a word. “Don’t,” Jaycee said quickly. Dimitri frowned. “Don’t w-what?” “Melt my heart.” Slowly Dimitri reached out and placed his hand between her breasts. “So you do have a h-heart in there?”
It is a great Friends-To-Lovers story. The ending was more than satisfying.
“We knew,” Dimitri said, kissing her hair. “We just took our time admitting it. At least, you did. I always said you were the one for me.” ...more
This is the love story between Jace (Eric's son) and Deni, Ellison's sister.
A matchmaking not made in heaven since: -Deni is a wolf and Jace is a leopThis is the love story between Jace (Eric's son) and Deni, Ellison's sister.
A matchmaking not made in heaven since: -Deni is a wolf and Jace is a leopard -Deni is from Austin shifter town and Jace from Las Vegas shifter town -Also they are in different state in life. Jace has no responsibilities. Deni has lost her previous mate and she has two grown up sons for the humans' standards (still cubs for the shifters' standards).
In this book Deni finds herself (she was not very well in the head after she was hit and run by a ruthless human a year ago) and Jace almost loses himself after the experiments the leaders from Austin shifter town have done on him in order to get rid of his collar.
To be honest I did not expect these two to end up together and I wanted Jace story to be longer. But I enjoyed the book. I particularly liked how shifters are playing humans once more very cleverly. ...more
It is the story of Eric the leader of Las Vegas shifter town who is a mateless leopard shifter and who did not look for lovThis book is seriously HOT.
It is the story of Eric the leader of Las Vegas shifter town who is a mateless leopard shifter and who did not look for love until he meets Iona and the story of Iona who is a half panther shifter and who did not look for love until she meets Eric.
Their story begins slowly at a shifters' bar where Iona pretends to be human and continues later at a chocolate store. There is this thing with Eric and chocolates by the way.... Every time I read about Eric, I want to finish a box of chocolates.
In this book we also learn what the shifters are hiding under their houses...hmm
And we meet Graham, the wolf shifter and Misty whose story we will read in another book. Graham is a total bastard in this book, but I heard that his attitude is improving in his book :-)...more
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