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Chargement... Way of the Wolf (Shifter Legacies #1) (édition 2014)par Mark E. Cooper
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. An engrossing story The world of this story is very much like our own but with many changes. Vampires, lycanthropes, elves and more all exist alongside humans.. but far from peacefully. While many of the characters are very interesting and approachable I have to complain a little about the fact that there are simply too many characters to keep track of. There are too many parallel plotlines to fully lose yourself in any one of them and the differences between our world and that of the story are rarely explained to satisfaction. This reads like a follow-up story rather than a first book. There is so much background knowledge needed in order to truly enjoy the story and the reader is left to figure it out by themselves. One is left feeling like they need to keep track of all the new information in a notebook in order to follow along. I did enjoy meeting the characters and glimpsing their adventures but I found this story to be more exhausting than exciting and will not be reading the rest of the series. The story was a little confusing to start. Each of the characters received a well-developed bio chapter at the beginning, so it was almost as if each new chapter was the start of an entirely new book. When their storylines started overlapping, however, it got really good, really fast. If you can make it through the opening chapters, I promise you that the end well-justified the means! I can't wait to read book 2! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
His old life shattered, his new life is consumed with revenge... and love. Dr. David Lephmann lived a normal existence until he was attacked by a shifter. Thrust into a world of violence and mistrust, he must battle for a place among his new people. Only strange new alliances can keep him alive. A powerful master vampire may help him take his revenge on the shifter who destroyed his life. There's only one distraction from his mission: an intriguing shifter woman who opens up his world to werewolf romance. With no way back to his old life, David has no choice but to bend to the rules of his new people. Can he survive the challenge?"Way of the Wolf" is the first book in the Shifter Legacies dark fantasy paranormal series. If you like shifters or the work of Anne McCaffrey, Christine Feehan, and Lynsay Sands, then you'll love the tantalizingly action-packed story. Buy the first book in a gripping paranormal series today Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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As of page 132 we have:
1) An uber wealthy Vamp kidnapping and/or coercing/bribing various top scientists to work on some unspecified genetics project regard immortality and Fae.
2) A doctor who refuses to discriminate against "non-humans" regarding treatment winds up getting bitten by a wolf and infected. He refuses to cooperate with the Anti Monster League (yeah, I know...lamest name EVER) and the powers that be making himself a target and has to go on the lamb, giving up his medical career and looking for revenge.
3) Is he a good guy or a bad guy super hot Vamp is trying to build an army to protect his ass-ets from the AML. He reaches out to the completely superficial and insecure daughter of the money behind the AML. She of course helps right away without question all trusting and needy.
4) Two thugs go to rip off an old lady and find a were instead. Their decapitated bodies in an alley introduce detective hard ass & her crew on the hunt for a serial killer targeting blonde hookers.
Yes, that covers the first 12 (and a bit) chapters. There is no transition between the above stories, it just abruptly shifts to a new POV. Maybe the author is a George RR Martin fan? That is the ONLY comparison to Martin's writing that can be made...
I've been reading this book for two days and only left off the cop bit a few minutes ago when I decided I simply cannot carry on any longer. And, I honestly can't remember any of the characters names apart from David; the doctor gone werewolf. Not one. They're that utterly forgettable.
In addition, this is one of those books/authors where it's all stuff you already know given stupid names and shoved off as "world building":
Stunners - tasers
Boomers - guns
I can't remember anymore, but they were there. It's like this book has a spell of forgetting on it, I swear! It might be eating my brain as I write.
Lastly, he kept talking about people's "short hairs lifting" over and over and over again. (In and of itself, that would have been repetitive phrasing which is a pet peeve.) Now, I know from context he meant the hair on the back of your neck. But, alas, I think he heard the term "short hairs" and WILDLY mistook what it meant. Short Hairs, folks, are NOT on your neck...at least I hope not. *cringes*
Unfortunately I can't think of anyone I would recommend this book to. Now that I think of it, maybe that is fortunate...for me. ( )