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Hunter's Rise (2012)

by Shiloh Walker(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0425248372 (ISBN13: 9780425248379)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Berkley

series

The Hunters

review 1: Paranormal romance is tricky at best. This author is experienced in writing for this genre and so she does a good job. However in many areas this ends up as a not very organized potboiler. Her characters are interesting, but not so defined that you don't mix them up as well as their storylines. Her world-building is a little shaky and so it seems like anything goes. Unclear world building creates too many plot-holes. Her villians are great, nasty pieces of work and plot makes it fun and easy to root for the good guys.
review 2: Fantasy meets gritty mystery in this story told in many personalities' points of view. The author tells their story through different voices as time unfolds for the witches, werewolves and vampires in this story. The humans that fill... more the world show up in different interactions with the non-mortals, they never have a POV voice but that is never missed as the story quickly takes you away in a tsunami of action. The romantic aspect is subtle and in sensible places as the mystery unfolds. It does explain why a vampire (Sylvia) and a werewolf (Toronto) would trust each other enough to work together although they seem to be total strangers. I liked that the mystery unfolds with the building love and then I won't spoil the ending, but the mystery is solved about 50 pages before the actual ending of the book which gives enough time to find real closure for the main characters. I would have liked to have Rafe's or Angel's love story told in an other book because I felt close to them although they show up only a little in this novel.Mostly set in Memphis and the United states, although Canada does make a little cameo with the city of Toronto. In this world, Vampires and Werewolves can get along and become lovers although it doesn't seem to happen often. There are also witches, human/vamp hybrids and natural shape-shifters. The non-mortals try to live a undercover existence from the mortal world and 'Hunters' clean up the riff-raff feral fantasy folks before they can make a spectacle and clue the humans into their existence.I got to read this early when I won the book in one of Goodread's giveaways. I'm thinking that I am very lucky because it was delicious reading and free! I would recommend this to readers that like werewolves, vampires, gritty mysteries with a touch of romance. This is not erotica although there is mention of some seriously deviant pervy characters in the story, the few sex scenes are fairly vanilla sweet.4 stars less

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