PARANORMAL
& SUSPENSE
| book reviews |
The Wolf’s Torment
(Moldavian Moon #1)
Stephanie Burkhart
Paranormal
Heat Rating: 3
It’s 1865 and Moldavia is a country
nestled against the shores of the
Black Sea. Lady Theresa travels
from Austria to this country that’s
haunted by tales of vampires and werewolves. She’s going to
marry the Crown Prince, but she harbors her own unspoken
secrets.
Prince Mihai has just returned to Moldavia to discover he’s a
witch. He’s intent on being a good husband and modernizing
his country, but he must find a balance with his supernatural
heritage. His best friend, Viktor, accompanies Mihai and marries Mihai’s sister. In an unfortunate twist of fate, a werewolf
bites Viktor.
Viktor’s transformation threatens everyone around him,
including his wife’s safety and Mihai’s happiness, but he’s especially dangerous when he’s near Theresa. Can Mihai save
his family from Viktor’s lies and deceptions?
REVIEW: Ten-year-old Mihai, finds out his mother is a witch,
when an old witch comes to claim what was hers to reclaim.
Mihai is a prince and his father is King so he really doesn’t
understand what is happening. His mother tells him the truth
just before she pays the ultimate price in protecting him and
he manages to cut the old witch, before he takes off running
and heading home to tell his father what has happened. Years
later, he becomes engaged to a beauty, who has basically
dreamed about him for years as he dreamt about her and
they do become close. The old witch comes back and her
wolf friend that’s always by her side comes back and bites
one of Mihai’s friends and that, just doesn’t sit well with anybody and towards the end there is a confrontation that Mihai
didn’t want to deal with. It was a really good and suspenseful read that held your attention from the first page and you
wanted a happy ending for Mihai and Teresa. All the characters were believable. From the good ones right down to the
foul ones. Pick up a copy. You’ll definitely enjoy it.
| Reviewer: Cassandra Graham |
The Alpha’s Daughter
Jacqueline Rhoades
Paranormal Romance
Heat Rating: 3
There is a balm in Gilead, to heal the
wounded soul…
Jazz Phillips is on the run, fleeing
from a fate most females in her pack
accept as their lot in life; an arranged mating, something Jazz
thought wasn’t in her future as the Alpha’s daughter and only
child. She doesn’t want to be the next Alpha’s Mate. She
doesn’t want to be anyone’s mate. She likes her life just the
way it is until she finds herself stranded in the mountain town
of Gilead, home to a small and close knit pack of wolvers.
Once there, she begins to question her life as it was and begins to wonder about what it could be, especially in the arms
of the wolver the people call Doc.
Doc Goodman claims to have settled in Gilead because he
saw a need for his services, but in fact, he’s a runaway, too.
He’s rejec ted his wolver heritage and the warring politics that
stripped him of everything he loved most. He’s biding his time,
waiting to die, until he meets the blue haired, foul mouthed
beauty who shows him there are still things worth living for
and the most important of them are worth fighting for.
REVIEW: I love the writing style of Jacqueline Rhoades. It
flows easily and the words just flow off the page. I never had
to read a sentence twice to understand what she meant. The
focus of the book is brilliant and I found myself being sucked
into every page; this is a rare talent that not all authors possess. I loved the characters in this book, and found myself
falling for each character and relating to them. I think the
book possessed a lot of raw emotion that I think everyone
at some point feels. I feel that a lot of people would be able
to relate it to it in some way or other as it holds so much
within its pages. This book has made it into my top 50, mainly
because I have read a lot of series and for me vampires come
before werewolves. Hahah!!!
| Reviewer: Nila Bi |
December 2013 | 77