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Blood Of The Pride (2013)

by Sheryl Nantus(Favorite Author)

3.35 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0373002092 (ISBN13: 9780373002092)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Carina Press

series

Blood of the Pride

review 1: This is the first book in an interesting new series by long time author Sheryl Nantus. Book 2 “Claws Bared” will be out on January 21st.Rebecca is a cat shifter, and she is an unusual one at that. She is also a PI, and has just gotten a summons of a severed rabbit foot calling her back home to her Pride. The same Pride that kicked her out so many years ago.Another Pride mate has been murdered and an investigative reporter is spreading evidence around that ‘cat people’ may exist. Now that Rebecca has to investigate this murder for her old, Pride-she decides to go to the source of the photo and she soon finds herself smitten with this sexy journalist. Therefore, they decide to investigate together.This was quite the interesting book in that the author really take... mores her time in setting up the world so that there will be no questions asked by the readers. I really appreciated the time and effort this took Ms Nantus. It made it much easier for me to lose myself in the story – and really understand everything that was happening.The characters are well written and defined. The use of Toronto as a home base is a slightly different one and is quite interesting for us south of the boarder. The story and mystery isn’t too complicated, but just enough to keep you guessing for a while. There is at least on sort of red herring thrown in to keep you off-kilter.Some may be tempted to classify this as a romance, but romance takes a back seat to all of the investigating and action that fills these pages. In fact, on the one occasion that Rebecca and Bran DO get together, it is not written using explicit language or descriptions. This was a pleasant shift away from so many of these types of books that put so much emphasis on the sex even though they are touted as action/suspense books. Some of these books come off as more erotica with the adventure taking a back seat. Not so with this novel. Yes you do get romance, it just isn’t an ‘in your face’ type of romance.
review 2: This book had some continuity problems, there were a few glaring (to me) hiccups on this line, seemingly changed at the last minute to tie things up easily. But despite these the world was interesting. While the two main characters were interesting, the romance kinda wasn't. Everything was a little to pat, answers coming relatively quickly and conveniently. It was at times a bit slow paced.But where normally even one or two of these sort of things would have me putting the book down, I did read the whole thing and reasonably enjoyed it. o_OSo I have no idea how to grade it. less

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