A wonderfully descriptive paranormal romance that breathes some much-needed life into the subgenre.
Two lonely outsiders risk health and home to find love amid danger.
Shifters and werewolves have been enemies for centuries. While wolves are forced to change with every full moon, Shifters can pick a form at will. As humans earned their place at the top of the food chain hundreds of years ago, Shifters chose to remain in their human forms. They have a history of attacking wolves while they’re vulnerable, using human weapons to raid a wolf pack’s supply of riches. In present-day upstate New York, the Great North Pack is pairing off its wolves in a celebration, known as “the Dæling,” that ushers the juveniles into adulthood. Silver is the runt of the group, and, unpaired, she’s destined for the role of servant to the Pack’s ruling Alphas. But when a Shifter/wolf hybrid shows up on the land, gored and bleeding to death, Silver recognizes she has a chance to change her future of submission. If she chooses to help the stranger, she’ll be exiled from her Pack, but she knows the risk is worth the reward of forging her own path. Silver and the hybrid, Tiberius, are thrust into complicated circumstances in which the elements, humans, and wolves alike are their enemies. Debut author Vale has created a paranormal community in the modern world, and it's a standout, though it would have been helpful to have a glossary for the unique terminology. The romance takes a back seat to wolf-pack dynamics and paranormal politics, but the scenes showing the dark, primal attraction between Silver and Tiberius can become addictive for readers —a dense, gooey chocolate cake in page form.
A wonderfully descriptive paranormal romance that breathes some much-needed life into the subgenre.Pub Date: Feb. 6, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4926-6187-0
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Review Posted Online: Dec. 11, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 2018
An entertaining, affecting romance.
A downtrodden nanny sends off a quick note of appreciation to a soldier; when it lands on a major’s desk, it sparks an unexpected romance, but things get complicated once he's back on U.S. soil.
Sara Ryan needs a change. She loves her niece, Kaylee, but being the girl's nanny for the past three years has made it too easy for her brother and sister-in-law to duck their parenting responsibilities while taking advantage of her time and kindness. Sara's widowed mother depends on her, too, and now that Sara has spent years taking care of her family, they've become dependent and entitled while continually chipping away at her self-esteem. Then, when she hears a radio story about sending letters to troops serving abroad, Maj. Gabriel Randall comes into her life. He responds to her letter with an email, which leads to texts, FaceTime, and a full-blown emotional affair—and finally an airline ticket to Alaska for Sara to spend time with Gabriel at the end of his deployment. But Sara has confided to no one but a cousin about the correspondence, and as the day she’s supposed to leave for Alaska grows closer, she continues to keep her silence, creating confusion and turmoil when events force her to face her choices head-on. James (a new pen name for established author Sydney Landon) takes on a kind of mashup of “Cinderella” and soldier pen-pal fantasy, in a sweet, touching way. It is frustrating how reactive Sara is until the very end—even understanding that that’s supposed to be her growth arc—and how everyone else solves her problems, but the ultimate meshing of two lonely souls through a seemingly fated letter makes for a tender, satisfying love story overall.
An entertaining, affecting romance.Pub Date: March 3, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-9848-0695-6
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Jove/Penguin
Review Posted Online: Jan. 12, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2020
A have-your-cake-and-eat-it romp, done with brio and not a syllable of moralizing. Newcomer Kinsella has a light touch and...
Another bright young thing from London with a bad habit: shopping.
Rebecca Bloomwood is a financial journalist of sorts, offering sensible advice—which she seldom takes—in the glossy periodical Successful Saving. But she herself can’t resist a designer sale, the more useless and expensive a garment, the better. In fact, Rebecca harbors an irrational wish to be run over just so the world can see her new bra with embroidered yellow rosebuds and gorgeous matching knickers. Her pitiful salary, though, doesn’t allow for extravagances like these, and her overdraft allowance has been exceeded by several thousand pounds. An officious accounts manager named Derek Smeath sends increasingly less polite dunning notices every day, and her tall tales about broken legs and dead dogs and even a recent conversion to evangelical Christianity are failing to deter—or amuse—him. Meanwhile, perky flatmate Suze, the daughter of fabulously rich and indulgent parents, is little help, although she does fix Rebecca up with her equally wealthy cousin, Tarquin Cleath-Stuart. Dreaming wistfully of marrying money, Rebecca tries to impress the dull but sincere Tarquin by inventing a charity that provides violins for impoverished children in Mozambique—and is mortified when he immediately makes a donation of five thousand pounds, scribbling a cheque that she has to return. But there’s another man in her future: handsome Luke Brandon, a financial genius who devised a fund-switching scheme that seems to have deprived her parents’ neighbors—a well-meaning but slightly dotty old couple—of their nest egg. Outraged, Rebecca publicizes their plight on a morning TV show. Then Luke, a smooth operator in more ways than one, explains all—and beds her on their first date. But he won’t be the only one charmed by Rebecca’s wit and style.
A have-your-cake-and-eat-it romp, done with brio and not a syllable of moralizing. Newcomer Kinsella has a light touch and puckish humor.Pub Date: Feb. 13, 2001
ISBN: 0-385-33548-2
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Delta
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2000
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