Gibson, Bringer of
the De La Vega werejaguar Jamboree, has no time or patience for representatives
of a much smaller Jamboree violating his territory and makes this very very
clear
And then is shot with
silver bullets
Thankfully, Mia is
close when he is shot and able to get him to safety; a wonderful foundation for
a new friendship… but not so much when Mia and Gibson’s families have been at
odds for generations. And Mia herself is still recovering from a brutal crime and
trying to figure out what to do with her life: getting involved in Jamboree
politics in the face of attempted murder was not on the agenda.
I’m going to say I
was torn when I first picked up this book. I knew Lauren
Dane as an author focuses
on Paranormal Romance
which I’m just not a huge fan of. This isn’t a criticism of her or the genre by
any means, merely an expression of different taste. So that leads me to think
“not for me” and back off - except she also wrote the Rowan
Summerwaite Series which I love and I consider it to be a deep and terrible crime that
there are not more books in this series. So I approach this from a complicated
position of high and low expectations.
And so we have this
book - which is a paranormal romance with an interesting world, some great
characters and generally something I really enjoyed which means in the future
I’m going to be even more confused
Oh to add to the ways
I unnecessarily complicate what should be a simple review - I managed to pick up
book 3 of a series. Yes, so this is me deleting my review complaining “I feel
like I jumped half way in to a series and have a missed a whole lot of back
story!” It turns out that’s because I jumped half way into a series and have
indeed missed a whole lot of back story. Go me. So let me add some praise for
this book both giving me enough information about the characters and world
setting for me to actually enjoy and understand this book but not trying to
dump so much back story into this book as to make it unwieldy. Oh and this
series is a spin off from an even larger series. Yes this has not been my best
decision.
I often dislike the
tropes that are common in most of the paranormal romances I read as they seem
to be summed up by “unreasonable people turning minor issues into ridiculous
convoluted obstacles”. I generally think all these people should stay away from
each other because no relationship that has two people this inclined to drama
could possibly work except for the neighbours if they have a big enough supply
of popcorn
