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mamabears_fabulous_book_finds's review
4.0
It took me a while to read this, just because I had so much other stuff going. It isn't my favorite of the series, so far, but it is still a great read. Love the twist on Red Riding Hood. Especially when the woodsman turns out to be the wolf. Loved that.
sparklingreader's review
3.0
This is Part Three of the Royal House of Shadows series from Harlequin Nocturne, each book written by a different person and based on a common fairytale. This book is based on Little Red Riding Hood.
Reda, a furloughed cop, is having difficulties dealing with the death of her partner. The unit shrink, her father and brothers all believe if she’d just look at things logically, she’d be better, but that also means giving up on the fairy tale stories her mother used to tell her before she died. Reda’s favorite is in a mysterious book that had once belonged to her mother, but had been lost. Fate led Reda to a used book store and the owner who found it for her. She is especially drawn to the picture of the woodsman.
Dayn is a displaced prince of Elden. For twenty years, he’s been stuck in the wolfyn realm, waiting for the woman who would guide him back to his realm. All he knows is the prophecy that he would have a guide and the dreams he has of a red-haired beauty.
When Reda is swept into the Wolfyn realm, she finds that her mother’s tales had been true. She has to rework everything the shrink and her father had been pounding into her and accept the fantasy as reality. Dayn has to learn to grow up and accept who and what he really is. They are up against formidable enemies that the two of them can only overcome through belief in themselves and each other.
This is a sensual book full of action, adventure and passion. Both issues must learn to deal with deep-seated issues before they can move forward in their lives. In fact, that’s the problem I have with the book. It is a good enough romance, but the two characters continually whine about their issues – I’m a coward. I need to get home. I don’t believe. You’re my guide. And so on. Yes, they have to grow, but to go on and on gets a little tedious after a bit. Plus, I thought the ending was rushed. We’ve reached the castle. The battle is going to begin. Then it’s all over. Huh? I kept going back a couple of pages to see if I missed something. I didn’t.
So, overall, I am enjoying the books and I can’t wait to read the fourth and final one – one that will hopefully tie everything together. If you’re just looking for a quick read with a bit of romance and a lot of passion, pick these up. You don’t need to read all four to know what’s going on – which is nice – but reading them as a set would be a definite plus. They are all paranormal with shapeshifters, magic, and romance. Always a good combination in my mind.
Reda, a furloughed cop, is having difficulties dealing with the death of her partner. The unit shrink, her father and brothers all believe if she’d just look at things logically, she’d be better, but that also means giving up on the fairy tale stories her mother used to tell her before she died. Reda’s favorite is in a mysterious book that had once belonged to her mother, but had been lost. Fate led Reda to a used book store and the owner who found it for her. She is especially drawn to the picture of the woodsman.
Dayn is a displaced prince of Elden. For twenty years, he’s been stuck in the wolfyn realm, waiting for the woman who would guide him back to his realm. All he knows is the prophecy that he would have a guide and the dreams he has of a red-haired beauty.
When Reda is swept into the Wolfyn realm, she finds that her mother’s tales had been true. She has to rework everything the shrink and her father had been pounding into her and accept the fantasy as reality. Dayn has to learn to grow up and accept who and what he really is. They are up against formidable enemies that the two of them can only overcome through belief in themselves and each other.
This is a sensual book full of action, adventure and passion. Both issues must learn to deal with deep-seated issues before they can move forward in their lives. In fact, that’s the problem I have with the book. It is a good enough romance, but the two characters continually whine about their issues – I’m a coward. I need to get home. I don’t believe. You’re my guide. And so on. Yes, they have to grow, but to go on and on gets a little tedious after a bit. Plus, I thought the ending was rushed. We’ve reached the castle. The battle is going to begin. Then it’s all over. Huh? I kept going back a couple of pages to see if I missed something. I didn’t.
So, overall, I am enjoying the books and I can’t wait to read the fourth and final one – one that will hopefully tie everything together. If you’re just looking for a quick read with a bit of romance and a lot of passion, pick these up. You don’t need to read all four to know what’s going on – which is nice – but reading them as a set would be a definite plus. They are all paranormal with shapeshifters, magic, and romance. Always a good combination in my mind.
fishgirl182's review
3.0
Lord of the Wolfyn is another fun installment in the Royal Book of Shadows series. While this wasn’t my favorite book in the series, I enjoyed Jessica Anderson’s writing and had a hard time putting it down. Like the other books in the series, Lord of the Wolfyn is a retelling of a classic fairy tale. This one is based on Red Riding Hood and is probably the most literal, as the fairy tale book actually plays in role in the plot. The book is what draws Reda into the wolfyn realm and foretells her journey with Dayn.
Dayn is probably the least alpha of the males we’ve seen so far in this series. That’s not a bad thing - it’s actually kind of refreshing. There’s a lot of chest beating in romance novels and it is nice to have a hero who doesn’t say “mine” all the time and proclaim eternal love after five minutes (not that there’s anything wrong with that). After the trauma of her partner’s death, Reda has become very withdrawn and unsure of herself. Dayn is very careful of her feelings and tries to protect her. However, he’s torn between his obligation to his family and his feelings for Reda. This leads him to do a lot of back and forth with pushing her away for her own good and the good of his mission but also clinging to her because he loves her. It gets a little frustrating because he can’t seem to make up his mind.
Unfortunately I didn’t care much for Reda. She seems to be very emotionally unstable at the beginning of the book. I do feel for her. She blames herself for her partner’s death and hasn’t been able to forgive herself. When she meets Dayn, she convinces herself that she’s in a dream and goes along with it trying to wake herself up. Once she figures out it’s not a dream she has to deal this weird fixation and fear she has of being brainwashed. She’s very wary of the wolfyn because, in her book, they are portrayed as being able to enthrall women to do their sexual bidding. When she finds out that Dayn can become one of them, she freaks out and accuses him of entrancing her. She second guesses her own feelings and assumes the worst about every situation. She does eventually herself together becomes a pretty badass warrior, but it takes her awhile to get there.
I thought the back story about Reda’s mother was really interesting but, unfortunately, the story doesn’t delve too far into what happened to her. I am not sure if we’ll come back to it but I hope we do. Since this is the last book before the end of the series, there’s a lot of buildup in this one and it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. The time difference is as confusing as ever and I have no idea where Dayn’s timeline is in comparison to his siblings. Perhaps I should make a chart.
This is my first Jessica Anderson book and I liked her writing style. The story was fast paced and flowed nicely. And even though I didn’t fall in love with the characters I was thoroughly sucked into the story. This has been a fun series so far just because it’s introduced me to several new authors. The next book is the one I’ve been waiting for, though, because I love Nalini Singh. I am excited to see how this series wraps up!
*An e-ARC of this book was provided free of charge by NetGalley.com. This, in no way, affected my opinion or review of this book.
Dayn is probably the least alpha of the males we’ve seen so far in this series. That’s not a bad thing - it’s actually kind of refreshing. There’s a lot of chest beating in romance novels and it is nice to have a hero who doesn’t say “mine” all the time and proclaim eternal love after five minutes (not that there’s anything wrong with that). After the trauma of her partner’s death, Reda has become very withdrawn and unsure of herself. Dayn is very careful of her feelings and tries to protect her. However, he’s torn between his obligation to his family and his feelings for Reda. This leads him to do a lot of back and forth with pushing her away for her own good and the good of his mission but also clinging to her because he loves her. It gets a little frustrating because he can’t seem to make up his mind.
Unfortunately I didn’t care much for Reda. She seems to be very emotionally unstable at the beginning of the book. I do feel for her. She blames herself for her partner’s death and hasn’t been able to forgive herself. When she meets Dayn, she convinces herself that she’s in a dream and goes along with it trying to wake herself up. Once she figures out it’s not a dream she has to deal this weird fixation and fear she has of being brainwashed. She’s very wary of the wolfyn because, in her book, they are portrayed as being able to enthrall women to do their sexual bidding. When she finds out that Dayn can become one of them, she freaks out and accuses him of entrancing her. She second guesses her own feelings and assumes the worst about every situation. She does eventually herself together becomes a pretty badass warrior, but it takes her awhile to get there.
I thought the back story about Reda’s mother was really interesting but, unfortunately, the story doesn’t delve too far into what happened to her. I am not sure if we’ll come back to it but I hope we do. Since this is the last book before the end of the series, there’s a lot of buildup in this one and it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. The time difference is as confusing as ever and I have no idea where Dayn’s timeline is in comparison to his siblings. Perhaps I should make a chart.
This is my first Jessica Anderson book and I liked her writing style. The story was fast paced and flowed nicely. And even though I didn’t fall in love with the characters I was thoroughly sucked into the story. This has been a fun series so far just because it’s introduced me to several new authors. The next book is the one I’ve been waiting for, though, because I love Nalini Singh. I am excited to see how this series wraps up!
*An e-ARC of this book was provided free of charge by NetGalley.com. This, in no way, affected my opinion or review of this book.
bibliocat08's review
4.0
This story made way more sense in the arc than Lord of Rage did. She explained the timing so even an idiot could understand what was going on. Andersen also carried on the trope of meeting in dreams to make the relationship that developed in about a day more believable. The character development was very formulaic for both main characters but it's only formulaic because it works.
It was enjoyable brain candy and I am looking forward to reading the last story.
It was enjoyable brain candy and I am looking forward to reading the last story.
tracey_stewart's review
3.0
I've always been baffled by books that are put out with spoilers in the blurbs – like mysteries telling who the victim in chapter 5 is going to be – or even in the jacket art. Putting one in the title, though, is even dumber than having a title which actually means little to the story (thinking of Across the Nightingale Floor here). On page 172 of Lord of the Wolfyn (about which title I wondered, since the main character is many things but not Lord of the Wolfyn), something happened which made my eyes flick up to the title, and I thought "Ah. Well, I know how that's going to come out, now, don't I." At which point I rolled my eyes and skimmed for awhile.
Apart from that, it was an, I think, above average paranormal romance (PNR), though surprisingly undersexed if anything. That is not, I should add, a complaint. It has an interesting premise, and interesting worldbuilding – I actually love and am intrigued by the concept of the three worlds linking, intrigued enough that I may one day seek out the other book in the series (one for each sibling – this was #3). Each seems to be a take on a different fairy tale, this one being Red Riding Hood.
It has a cop (or former cop) for the female main character, which is not so successful: I don't buy it. She's one of the tiny-and-damaged breed of romance heroine, and I simply don't believe that the character as presented would have met either the physical or mental health requirements for the job even before the incident that damaged her further. In the story she is a former cop because of a terrible incident in which she froze in the middle of a crisis and cost a life (and, incidentally, let a criminal get away), and that for me doesn't make it easy to either warm up to her (she shouldn't have been on the job in the first place) or believe in the near-miraculous turn-around she undergoes when her new beloved needs her.
There are three worlds: ours, the dull world of science and no magic; Dayn's, the one with magic and no science; and the wolfyn world, with borrowings from both. Dayn was a "guest" in the halfway world for 20 years, and picked up some earth-y slang. However, throughout the book there are references to "another fitting human saying" (that one was "Damnation" – which I suppose he shouldn't even understand the meaning of) or "a particularly fitting human idiom". Yet shortly after these there's a mention of "the deer-in-the-headlights freeze" … considering the man's never, unless I'm very much mistaken, seen a car, that's careless. I don't even want to get into "bad fur day" or "You're it for me". *shudder*
It was cute. I used it as a diversion from a larger, denser, more difficult book, and it sufficed. It was, as I said, a great over-arching idea, another one (rather like [b:Alchemy of Desire|328470|The Alchemy of Desire|Tarun J. Tejpal|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1173794573s/328470.jpg|319097]) which I can only wish had been written as a straight fantasy, without the concentration on mating rituals. But it is what it is, and it's adequate for its intended purpose.
Apart from that, it was an, I think, above average paranormal romance (PNR), though surprisingly undersexed if anything. That is not, I should add, a complaint. It has an interesting premise, and interesting worldbuilding – I actually love and am intrigued by the concept of the three worlds linking, intrigued enough that I may one day seek out the other book in the series (one for each sibling – this was #3). Each seems to be a take on a different fairy tale, this one being Red Riding Hood.
It has a cop (or former cop) for the female main character, which is not so successful: I don't buy it. She's one of the tiny-and-damaged breed of romance heroine, and I simply don't believe that the character as presented would have met either the physical or mental health requirements for the job even before the incident that damaged her further. In the story she is a former cop because of a terrible incident in which she froze in the middle of a crisis and cost a life (and, incidentally, let a criminal get away), and that for me doesn't make it easy to either warm up to her (she shouldn't have been on the job in the first place) or believe in the near-miraculous turn-around she undergoes when her new beloved needs her.
There are three worlds: ours, the dull world of science and no magic; Dayn's, the one with magic and no science; and the wolfyn world, with borrowings from both. Dayn was a "guest" in the halfway world for 20 years, and picked up some earth-y slang. However, throughout the book there are references to "another fitting human saying" (that one was "Damnation" – which I suppose he shouldn't even understand the meaning of) or "a particularly fitting human idiom". Yet shortly after these there's a mention of "the deer-in-the-headlights freeze" … considering the man's never, unless I'm very much mistaken, seen a car, that's careless. I don't even want to get into "bad fur day" or "You're it for me". *shudder*
It was cute. I used it as a diversion from a larger, denser, more difficult book, and it sufficed. It was, as I said, a great over-arching idea, another one (rather like [b:Alchemy of Desire|328470|The Alchemy of Desire|Tarun J. Tejpal|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1173794573s/328470.jpg|319097]) which I can only wish had been written as a straight fantasy, without the concentration on mating rituals. But it is what it is, and it's adequate for its intended purpose.
jscarpa14's review
2.0
RECEIVED FROM: Net Galley for Review
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
Reda Weston used to be a cop, now she’s a destroyed woman, broken from having watched her partner die. When she begins having dreams for a lost fairy tale book in her childhood she has to acquire it. But opening the book and repeating the magic words from her childhood takes her to a world she never thought really existed. A world of shapeshifting wolves called Wolfyn and a woodcutter vampire who needs her help to save his people. When Dayn’s parents used their dying breath to save their children he ended up in a parallel world, one where his true identity would get him killed. He was told to wait for a guide who took twenty years to arrive, but from the moment of his arrival he has four days to take back his kingdom or he and his siblings will die. Unfortunately his guide isn’t sure who’s crazier – him or herself? Will he be able to convince her before it’s too late?
Before this installment I’d been devouring this series, and I was really pleased that it seemed even though there were a few discrepancies between installments all the writers involved were equally talented. Then I read Lord of Wolfyn and there’s no longer just a few discrepancies between titles now if I were to list them all it would take a few pages. The amount of discrepancies made me wonder if these writers truly collaborated at all to create this series. I have so far read three different versions of the king and queens deaths and final spell and this one isn’t even in the same location. And while I probably should have really expanded upon this in the previous novel since the time period between the spell and battle actually matches with the first novel in this one, the characters from the second novel are apparently really poor fighters as they’ve been there for close to twenty years now with no apparent progress. Plus the second installment didn’t say anything about either of the leads being near to immortal so from the sounds of it they’ve aged like a human into their 40s and 50s before the real battle has even begun. However I didn’t notice those discrepancies as much with reading that title because I was enjoying the story. In this novel it was an effort to keep turning the pages and those discrepancies seemed plainer than ever to be joined in with the blaring list of discrepancies in this novel. If multiple authors are going to write the same series they should build the world together and share character sketches etc as well as details of any scene to be used in more than one novel. I may have liked this book more if it wasn’t part of that series only because I wouldn’t have noticed the many, many ways it didn’t match the previous books.
While I will say the book did offer more in plot than just sex scenes, the main focus of the book was sex. They’re running for their lives but stopping to have sex multiple times and somewhere in their many many joinings they fall in love. News flash sex and love are not the same thing. Fortunately for the reader we only have to hear the details of three of these scenes and to be honest while I like a well written sex scene, I’d have rather skipped all of them. For one thing the male leads in romances are supposed to be well endowed. I get that, however either she has the world’s smallest hands or he should be sleeping with large animals instead of women. She couldn’t wrap her hand around it?! What is it the width of a pop can? There is such a thing as too big. I know the expression is hung like a horse but no one means that literally. If someone was actually faced with a man endowed literally the size of a horse it’s unlikely that they’d want to have intercourse with that person. The intercourse would be like giving birth backwards and I’ve yet to hear anyone say that giving birth turns them on. I’m certainly not jealous of her; I pretty much figure she must be some kind of masochist to enjoy that. While I will say the book isn’t just sex scene strung together by a few sentences, it still manages to use sex to sell the book rather than strong characters and a good plot. Romance novels like this one are the reason I started reading more of the other genres and only reading romance on occasion. I witnessed nothing within in the novel to convince me in any way, shape or form that the two characters are in love or have anything to even base a relationship on.
While it should be fast paced based on the scenes covered in this novel it seems to drag on and on. Some of that was all the differences between plot points mentioned in other books. A lot of it was a dislike of the characters.
Reda is self involved and annoying. Anytime we’re viewing a scene from her eyes we get pages upon pages upon pages of her obsessing about this or that. I really couldn’t stand her. Other than her constant obsessing she was pretty one dimensional as was every other character within this novel. None of the characters in this book were well developed or had any real flesh to them, but they did have sex a lot. And it’s near to impossible for me to respect a male lead who sleeps with the female lead scant hours after leaving the bed of another woman. I mean sure it’s nice to have an experienced male lead but he had sex with Keely at the beginning of the night and then sex with Reda at the end of it. Basically she’s made Reda into a character happy to accept sloppy seconds. That really made me respect her too – not.
While Anderson had some interesting ideas for her plot she spent too little time developing those ideas and fleshing out her characters and too much time focusing on sex. This title also might have worked better outside of a series because then she could display the originality she has without contradicting previously mentioned plot point from the other two books. Her novel pretty much is the book where the series falls apart and it’s clear that the writers really didn’t work together too much before they decided they’d throw together a series. As a standalone I might have liked those scene but not as part of this series. She’s got a great talent for description and like I mentioned some very interesting ideas but instead of expanding upon scenes of interest she fills the pages with characters either obsessing about something or having sex. The things that interested me she glossed over, the things that bored me is what she went on and on and on about.
While I’ll probably read the last novel in this series I’m unlikely to pick up another title by this author. However I’m just one opinion among many and the book has been getting some decent ratings from other readers on goodreads. The only positive thing I can think of about reading this book is it’s an installment of the series, however I guess you’ll have to read it and decide for yourself whether it’s worth your time.
***NOTE MY REVIEWS OFTEN CONTAIN SPOILERS***
Reda Weston used to be a cop, now she’s a destroyed woman, broken from having watched her partner die. When she begins having dreams for a lost fairy tale book in her childhood she has to acquire it. But opening the book and repeating the magic words from her childhood takes her to a world she never thought really existed. A world of shapeshifting wolves called Wolfyn and a woodcutter vampire who needs her help to save his people. When Dayn’s parents used their dying breath to save their children he ended up in a parallel world, one where his true identity would get him killed. He was told to wait for a guide who took twenty years to arrive, but from the moment of his arrival he has four days to take back his kingdom or he and his siblings will die. Unfortunately his guide isn’t sure who’s crazier – him or herself? Will he be able to convince her before it’s too late?
Before this installment I’d been devouring this series, and I was really pleased that it seemed even though there were a few discrepancies between installments all the writers involved were equally talented. Then I read Lord of Wolfyn and there’s no longer just a few discrepancies between titles now if I were to list them all it would take a few pages. The amount of discrepancies made me wonder if these writers truly collaborated at all to create this series. I have so far read three different versions of the king and queens deaths and final spell and this one isn’t even in the same location. And while I probably should have really expanded upon this in the previous novel since the time period between the spell and battle actually matches with the first novel in this one, the characters from the second novel are apparently really poor fighters as they’ve been there for close to twenty years now with no apparent progress. Plus the second installment didn’t say anything about either of the leads being near to immortal so from the sounds of it they’ve aged like a human into their 40s and 50s before the real battle has even begun. However I didn’t notice those discrepancies as much with reading that title because I was enjoying the story. In this novel it was an effort to keep turning the pages and those discrepancies seemed plainer than ever to be joined in with the blaring list of discrepancies in this novel. If multiple authors are going to write the same series they should build the world together and share character sketches etc as well as details of any scene to be used in more than one novel. I may have liked this book more if it wasn’t part of that series only because I wouldn’t have noticed the many, many ways it didn’t match the previous books.
While I will say the book did offer more in plot than just sex scenes, the main focus of the book was sex. They’re running for their lives but stopping to have sex multiple times and somewhere in their many many joinings they fall in love. News flash sex and love are not the same thing. Fortunately for the reader we only have to hear the details of three of these scenes and to be honest while I like a well written sex scene, I’d have rather skipped all of them. For one thing the male leads in romances are supposed to be well endowed. I get that, however either she has the world’s smallest hands or he should be sleeping with large animals instead of women. She couldn’t wrap her hand around it?! What is it the width of a pop can? There is such a thing as too big. I know the expression is hung like a horse but no one means that literally. If someone was actually faced with a man endowed literally the size of a horse it’s unlikely that they’d want to have intercourse with that person. The intercourse would be like giving birth backwards and I’ve yet to hear anyone say that giving birth turns them on. I’m certainly not jealous of her; I pretty much figure she must be some kind of masochist to enjoy that. While I will say the book isn’t just sex scene strung together by a few sentences, it still manages to use sex to sell the book rather than strong characters and a good plot. Romance novels like this one are the reason I started reading more of the other genres and only reading romance on occasion. I witnessed nothing within in the novel to convince me in any way, shape or form that the two characters are in love or have anything to even base a relationship on.
While it should be fast paced based on the scenes covered in this novel it seems to drag on and on. Some of that was all the differences between plot points mentioned in other books. A lot of it was a dislike of the characters.
Reda is self involved and annoying. Anytime we’re viewing a scene from her eyes we get pages upon pages upon pages of her obsessing about this or that. I really couldn’t stand her. Other than her constant obsessing she was pretty one dimensional as was every other character within this novel. None of the characters in this book were well developed or had any real flesh to them, but they did have sex a lot. And it’s near to impossible for me to respect a male lead who sleeps with the female lead scant hours after leaving the bed of another woman. I mean sure it’s nice to have an experienced male lead but he had sex with Keely at the beginning of the night and then sex with Reda at the end of it. Basically she’s made Reda into a character happy to accept sloppy seconds. That really made me respect her too – not.
While Anderson had some interesting ideas for her plot she spent too little time developing those ideas and fleshing out her characters and too much time focusing on sex. This title also might have worked better outside of a series because then she could display the originality she has without contradicting previously mentioned plot point from the other two books. Her novel pretty much is the book where the series falls apart and it’s clear that the writers really didn’t work together too much before they decided they’d throw together a series. As a standalone I might have liked those scene but not as part of this series. She’s got a great talent for description and like I mentioned some very interesting ideas but instead of expanding upon scenes of interest she fills the pages with characters either obsessing about something or having sex. The things that interested me she glossed over, the things that bored me is what she went on and on and on about.
While I’ll probably read the last novel in this series I’m unlikely to pick up another title by this author. However I’m just one opinion among many and the book has been getting some decent ratings from other readers on goodreads. The only positive thing I can think of about reading this book is it’s an installment of the series, however I guess you’ll have to read it and decide for yourself whether it’s worth your time.
nora4's review against another edition
5.0
Das Buch lag schon länger auf meinem Stapel und ich habe dann spontan beschlossen, dass es eines der Bücher wird, welches ich in die Ferien mitnehme. Darunter hat es jedoch, wie einige der Bücher, die ich hier kürzlich rezensiert habe, darunter gelitten, da ich leider nicht immer ganz konzentriert der Geschichte folgen konnte.
Dennoch konnte ich der Geschichte gut folgen, was auch immer positiv für das Buch an sich spricht.
Die Grundidee konnte mich bereits vom Klappentext her ansprechen und wurde dann auch wirklich gut umgesetzt. Ich brauche generell zwar auch nicht viel, um von einem Paranormalroman überzeugt zu werden und es war hier wieder genau nach meinem Geschmack.
Ein weiteres grosses Plus war die Tatsache, dass das Buch auch tatsächlich leicht an ein Märchen angelehnt wurde. Eine Kombination von gleich zwei Dingen, die ich in Büchern mag, ist wirklich genial.
Ich kann das Buch also wirklich nur empfehlen. Mir hat es rundum gefallen und, vielleicht auch gerade weil ich nicht immer vollends konzentriert war, war mir auch nichts Negatives aufgefallen, womit ich dem Buch fünf Sterne gebe.
Dennoch konnte ich der Geschichte gut folgen, was auch immer positiv für das Buch an sich spricht.
Die Grundidee konnte mich bereits vom Klappentext her ansprechen und wurde dann auch wirklich gut umgesetzt. Ich brauche generell zwar auch nicht viel, um von einem Paranormalroman überzeugt zu werden und es war hier wieder genau nach meinem Geschmack.
Ein weiteres grosses Plus war die Tatsache, dass das Buch auch tatsächlich leicht an ein Märchen angelehnt wurde. Eine Kombination von gleich zwei Dingen, die ich in Büchern mag, ist wirklich genial.
Ich kann das Buch also wirklich nur empfehlen. Mir hat es rundum gefallen und, vielleicht auch gerade weil ich nicht immer vollends konzentriert war, war mir auch nichts Negatives aufgefallen, womit ich dem Buch fünf Sterne gebe.
laurenjodi's review
3.0
Lord of the Wolfyn
3.5 Stars
Synopsis
Sent into the Wolfyn Realm by his dying parents' spell, Dayn must wait for the woman who will guide him home to fight to free his people from the Blood Sorcerer. That woman is Reda Weston, a practical ex-cop transported into a strange realm by a magical book where she comes face to face with the hero of her dreams.
Review
Captivating romance but the plot is underdeveloped.
The Red Riding Hood references have potential, however, they are not effectively integrated into the story. Moreover, the character backgrounds also lack detail and there are more questions than answers: what is the connection between Reda's mother and the Kingdom Realm, who is Moragh and how is she related to the Blood Sorcerer, and how exactly did Dayn become a Wolfyn?
Reda and Dayn are an engaging couple. Their chemistry is intense and their relationship the most intimate and passionate in the series so far (their bonding scene is incredible).
Reda is an ambivalent heroine. While her suffering both past and present makes me sympathize, she has a tendency to over-dramatize things and constantly thinks the worst of Dayn, which is unwarranted. Nevertheless, she slowly comes into her own throughout the book and becomes a self-confident and worthy partner.
Dayn is a combination of valiant vampire and sexy shapeshifter (like Michael in the Underworld films). He is a compelling hero but his internal conflict with regard to reconciling his Wolfyn nature could have been better developed.
The pacing is good and the writing flows smoothly. The action scenes are excellent and the ending is satisfying. I am eager to read the final installment written by Nalini Singh to see how everything comes together.
3.5 Stars
Synopsis
Sent into the Wolfyn Realm by his dying parents' spell, Dayn must wait for the woman who will guide him home to fight to free his people from the Blood Sorcerer. That woman is Reda Weston, a practical ex-cop transported into a strange realm by a magical book where she comes face to face with the hero of her dreams.
Review
Captivating romance but the plot is underdeveloped.
The Red Riding Hood references have potential, however, they are not effectively integrated into the story. Moreover, the character backgrounds also lack detail and there are more questions than answers: what is the connection between Reda's mother and the Kingdom Realm, who is Moragh and how is she related to the Blood Sorcerer, and how exactly did Dayn become a Wolfyn?
Reda and Dayn are an engaging couple. Their chemistry is intense and their relationship the most intimate and passionate in the series so far (their bonding scene is incredible).
Reda is an ambivalent heroine. While her suffering both past and present makes me sympathize, she has a tendency to over-dramatize things and constantly thinks the worst of Dayn, which is unwarranted. Nevertheless, she slowly comes into her own throughout the book and becomes a self-confident and worthy partner.
Dayn is a combination of valiant vampire and sexy shapeshifter (like Michael in the Underworld films). He is a compelling hero but his internal conflict with regard to reconciling his Wolfyn nature could have been better developed.
The pacing is good and the writing flows smoothly. The action scenes are excellent and the ending is satisfying. I am eager to read the final installment written by Nalini Singh to see how everything comes together.
lynseyisreading's review
4.0
This is the third book in this intriguing series by various authors who've been tasked to bring new life to an old tale. This time the gauntlet has been thrown down for Jessica Andersen, who is a new author for me. And the story is Little Red Riding Hood.
So naturally, that means we get wolves, or wolfyn as they are termed here, which are a type of wolf shifter. We get a sexy woodcutter (rawr), and we get cute, little "Red"-a Weston as our heroine.
For me, the character of Dayn made this story. He was such an adorable male lead, I absolutely loved him. He makes a really heartfelt speech about four chapters in, trying to explain his "kind" to Reda and he totally had me from that point on. It was such an honest and open explanation and he was so humble and self depreciating and....ah, he's just yummy! I realise that's not a very professional critique, but this is what he's reduced me to, okay? I can't help it!
I also really enjoyed the overall plot- the race against the clock created nice tension and suspense, and the knowledge that at the end of that time the two would be forced to part made the swiftness of their growing feelings seem more believable to me. Nothing makes you want to declare undying love quite like the thought that you may never see that person again.
I also loved the action scenes. Being more of an Urban Fantasy girl at heart I really appreciated that there was more to the story than just the romance. We had chases, battles, fighting off giant mythical creatures AND a sweet, sexy romance. I mean, what more do you want?
My only negative was that the baddie of the piece never seemed all that much of a danger. She was just a behind the scenes threat that didn't make much of an impression on me. And also, I'm not really clear on who she was or why she wanted to kill Dayn in the first place....maybe I missed it, but I can't remember that explanation. I can only assume that this lack of a big finale is because all four of these stories are heading towards one big end fight with the real enemy that started it all, but I guess I have to wait for the last book, Lord of the Abyss, to find out how that goes down.
Looking forward to it!
Review Copy: Received from the publisher for an honest review
So naturally, that means we get wolves, or wolfyn as they are termed here, which are a type of wolf shifter. We get a sexy woodcutter (rawr), and we get cute, little "Red"-a Weston as our heroine.
For me, the character of Dayn made this story. He was such an adorable male lead, I absolutely loved him. He makes a really heartfelt speech about four chapters in, trying to explain his "kind" to Reda and he totally had me from that point on. It was such an honest and open explanation and he was so humble and self depreciating and....ah, he's just yummy! I realise that's not a very professional critique, but this is what he's reduced me to, okay? I can't help it!
I also really enjoyed the overall plot- the race against the clock created nice tension and suspense, and the knowledge that at the end of that time the two would be forced to part made the swiftness of their growing feelings seem more believable to me. Nothing makes you want to declare undying love quite like the thought that you may never see that person again.
I also loved the action scenes. Being more of an Urban Fantasy girl at heart I really appreciated that there was more to the story than just the romance. We had chases, battles, fighting off giant mythical creatures AND a sweet, sexy romance. I mean, what more do you want?
My only negative was that the baddie of the piece never seemed all that much of a danger. She was just a behind the scenes threat that didn't make much of an impression on me. And also, I'm not really clear on who she was or why she wanted to kill Dayn in the first place....maybe I missed it, but I can't remember that explanation. I can only assume that this lack of a big finale is because all four of these stories are heading towards one big end fight with the real enemy that started it all, but I guess I have to wait for the last book, Lord of the Abyss, to find out how that goes down.
Looking forward to it!
Review Copy: Received from the publisher for an honest review