Product Description

Kara MacAllister thinks she's just an average, small-town pre-school teacher until the night a mysterious stranger shows up at her door claiming she's not only immortal, but the chosen one of a band of powerful shape-shifting males. Lyon steals her away from everything she knows and thrusts her into a world beyond her comprehension, a world filled with magic, nightmares, and perilous danger where Kara discovers an inner strength she never knew she possessed, and a passion in the arms of Lyon beyond anything she ever imagined. As he works with Kara, preparing her to become the source of power for the Feral Warriors, Lyon is swept away by Kara's vulnerable beauty and tempted beyond all reason by a desire he can't deny. But when Lyon realizes his band of warriors has been infiltrated by an ancient evil, he begins to question whether Kara is quite as innocent as she seems. And he begins to wonder if the woman who's stolen his heart is destined to be his salvation...or his doom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31136 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Resist!
I got this book on the strength of the production description. It's possibly the worst book I've ever read.

There is nothing to empathise with in any of the characters, the author has characterised them in such a way that all the male characters are violent without endearing characteristics, the main female character is weak. Her reactions are ridiculous and unreal, she feels minimal grief for the death of a mother whose relationship the author had created a real foundation for, and is giving in to her "passion" a few minutes after her death.

She accepts what she is about two pages after being told. The "guardians" are either violent or rude towards her most of the way through the book so that the reader wonders why the heroine would even want to make any kind of personal sacrifice to save them.

The plot was laid on so thick that there was no time for relationships to build, or even to be witnessed between established relationships so that you wouldn't really care about what happens to the rest of them, and it also felt drawn out, as if the author knew the reader wouldn't connect to the characters and was still trying to find ways to fill out personalities.

I'd definitely stick to authors like Nalini Singh, Christine Feehan, Sherillyn Kenyon, Lora Leigh and Gena Showalter for the same kind of theme only written with real finesse, emotional depth and originality.

First in series
When I picked up this book I found I had a strong sense of déjà vu... it appears I have already read the second in the series, which somewhat gave away events in this one.

As the initial book in a series, we are introduced to the heroine, Kara MacAllister, and eventually all the nine Feral Warriors, each of whom will presumably get their own book. They all have silly names and nicknames which were rather reminiscent of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J R Ward (names like Vhyper and Lyon). This story is Lyon's story, how he finds his true mate in Kara and how they save the world... or try to.

When Kara is wrenched from her life in a small town to living in a mansion with a load of men, things start going from strange to stranger. She is apparently a 'Radiant', a special woman from a non-human race who is able to manipulate power to keep evil forces at bay. She doesn't want any of this, of course, but she does want Lyon, one of the Warriors, as he's rather dishy. But it turns out her true mate isn't Lyon but one of the other warriors - but she can't stand him.

The book slowly reveals information about the feral warriors, the Radiant and those against whom they are battling. It doesn't particularly unfold characterisation, unfortunately, and I found it very difficult to tell the men apart from one another. I also found that as a reader I was in the dark as to what was possible in this world, thus whenever something odd happened it could be because of a Mage but I had no idea of what they were capable. The story held together mainly through the romance between Lyon and Kara which did seem very much physically based - plus some of their rituals weren't quite my cup of tea. It wasn't too bad a read but in many ways it was a mediocre story and I remember the second in the series that I've read, featuring Tighe, also seemed rather derivative.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2010

loved it
great shifters book, hunky men, nice story lines, easy read, great page count .. possibly a little cliche but a fun read none the less if you like para romance.