This book wasn't for me. The writing or dialogue was choppy at times, so it messed up the pace of the story for me. Alexis, Kyra and Ronan felt a little flat to me as well and I couldn't connect with their characters. I am usually a fan of high fantasy and paranormal, and this seems to be a meld of the two, so I had high hopes for the series... but it's just not grabbing me.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. DNF at 30%. ( )

I received this book from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted very much to love this book, as I absolutely love paranormal fiction, but I just couldn't. There were a lot of Gods and Goddesses to try to keep straight, but I was enjoying trying.

As this was Kelsey's first book in the series, I am looking forward to reading the next book to see if it gets easier. Once I start a series, I have to find out how it ends! ( )

[Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography (cclapcenter.com). I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.]

When you review as many self-published and basement-press books as I do, one of the unfortunate side effects is coming across novels on a pretty regular basis that should've never graduated from the editing stage in the first place, and that got published into a full book merely because the technology exists to cheaply make it into a published full book, not because it warranted a general release to the public based on its condition; and unfortunately a good example of that is the book I just got done checking out this week, Kelsey Jordan's The Lycan Hunter, which starts right off the bat with a ten-page prologue and beginning chapter that is so ludicrously overwrought and byzantine in its urban-fantasy mythology-building that I literally could not read any more of the book than that, so hopelessly lost I already was in its dozens of names, scores of races, and thousands of years of history it had already puked out by that point, all of it written so badly that I couldn't stand the thought of going back through it again and trying to make more sense of it all. I'm refraining from giving the book an actual score today, because even I can recognize how unfair it is to score a book based on reading only its first ten pages; but you can take the fact that I couldn't get past the first ten pages as a pretty clear sign anyway about whether you should read this or not. The very definition of why people roll their eyes when hearing the words "self-published erotic werewolf saga," it takes a pretty indiscriminate genre fan to have any love for this kind of actively bad writing...although let's face it, those people are probably out there, and are undoubtedly gearing up as we speak to write me an angry comment at Goodreads.com about this review.

Out of 10: N/A

The last thing Lycan Hunter, Alexis James, expects is to be saved by a wolf. Pack leader, Mikko Kyran, will do what it takes to stop the war, even playing nice with the local Lycan Hunter. Neither one of them expects to be part of a prophecy.

Lycan Hunter was an exciting and creative novel. It kept me intrigued and wanting more.

The characters are well-developed and believable. I especially enjoyed, Mikko Kyran, founder and leader of The Order of the Rockys. He is a likeable character and good leader.

The plot was original and carefully thought out. This story felt unique and complex. Jordan did a wonderful job with her descriptions and painting a vivid world.

Complimentary copy provided in exchange for an honest review. ( )

Dnf after reading almost 75%. I just wasn't enjoying reading this. I'm trying to clear my tbr pile for 2014 and I just wasn't enjoying this read. There was a lot of work put into this book with the whole Gods, and pack, and hunters but the plot was anything but simple and straight forward. The characters anything but likable. Kept trying to kill each other....so it just wasn't for me.