Posted on January 26th, 2012 by Maria
In the third New Species book, Valiant,
caterer Tammy Shasta has found herself in the wrong place on the New Species Reservation. Instead of ending up at the party she’s supposed to be serving at, she’s found herself in the front yard of Valiant’s house, too terrified to move. The feline New Species doesn’t want her on his property and views her presence there as a threat. Valiant finds himself intoxicated by her scent and when the other New Species try to get him to release her, he decides to keep her instead. After he gives her an amazing sexual experience, she cold cocks him with a lamp and escapes.
Valiant thinks he’ll never get to see her again, until Tammy is kidnapped by a hate group and the police ask the New Species to help track her. Valiant comes to her rescue and tells her he’s not going to let her go this time. But when Tammy is kidnapped a second time, she ends up at a Mercile testing facility where they want to breed her with another New Species male. Will Valiant be able to save her a second time?
I think of all the New Species books, Valiant is probably my favorite. For one of the more animalistic New Species, he has a great sense of humor and how he plays off Tammy is downright hilarious at times. I laughed just rereading some of it to write this review. I love this series and hope there will be lots more of them.
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Posted on January 25th, 2012 by Maria
In the second New Species novel, Slade,
Dr. Trisha Norbit’s first experience with the New Species involved being pinned under a drugged male who promised her ecstasy if she’ll let him have her. The hospital staff interfere before he can make good on his promise, but Trisha will never forget that day. Now she’s working at Homeland, in direct contact with New Species, and she’s shocked to realized the male, who took the name Slade, doesn’t remember her at all.
While Slade does remember what happened, he doesn’t realize it was Trisha. Only when he offers to personally introduce her to New Species breeding techniques does she inform him they were already almost acquainted in that way. Slade is beyond shocked that the woman he can’t forget is right in front of him and he may have lost his chance with her because he acted like an ass.
While Slade and Trisha are travelling from Homeland to Reservation, a new property where they keep the New Species who are too wild to interact with humans, they’re left to fight for their lives when their SUV is attacked by members of a hate group. Hunted by multiple parties through the wilderness, they’ll have to work together to stay alive. But their biggest challenge could be the growing attraction between them.
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Posted on January 21st, 2012 by Maria
All Clay Danvers and Elana Michaels want to do is give their four year old twins a Christmas alone, just the four of them. But that’s just not meant to be in Hidden.
As Alpha elect of their werewolf pack, Elana can’t ignore the uneasy feeling she gets from the mutt who visits them their first day at their rental house. Knowing the mutt approached them because he wasn’t sure why they were there, she starts to check into possible disappearances around town, wondering if the mutt is a man eater. What she finds is an accidental death that was left partial eaten by predators. When they call in reinforcements to help watch the children while they continue their investigation, it seems their idyllic vacation isn’t meant to be.
Clay and Elana have always been two of my favorite characters in the Otherworld series, so it was fun to connect with them again. Elana’s biggest struggle in this story is when and if to tell their children about werewolves, since they have no way to know if the kids will turn or not when they’re older. But twins Kate and Logan are already beyond their four years mentally and each seem to possess abilities that only a wolf would. Such as Kate knowing the mutt ‘was one of them’, but not really understanding what that meant. I can’t wait to see what happens when they get older. Hidden is a must read for any Kelley Armstrong fan.
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Posted on January 16th, 2012 by Maria
Unlikely hero Gideon Crew is back in Gideon’s Corpse,
the second book in the series. Immediately following the events of Gideon’s Sword,
all Gideon Crew wants to do is go back to his cabin and spend some time fishing before he dies. But the enigmatic Glinn and his company, Effective Engineering Solutions, has other plans for him.
Glinn sends Gideon to help with a hostage situation involving a former co-worker. The man is holding a family at gun point, threatening to kill them unless someone helps him. He claims to have been experimented on and set up, not even knowing the family who’s home he supposedly rents rooms from. The man is killed by the SWAT team after being disarmed and they soon find out he’s been exposed to radiation. The only explanation seems to be that the man was helping to build a nuclear device. Gideon is assigned to an FBI Agent to look into his former co-worker, but what the two find doesn’t seem to make any sense. When Gideon himself is accused of helping the man and possibly even recruiting him, he’ll risk everything to find out what’s really going on and put an end to the terrorist threat.
Gideon Crew is one of those men who’s like the anti-hero. He doesn’t set out to save the world, but circumstances leave him with no other choice. With a life-threatening medical condition hanging over his head, he really feels like he has nothing to lose. He’s going to die anyway, so why not save the world in the time he has left? I look forward to seeing what’s in store next for him.
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Posted on January 14th, 2012 by Maria
Few things gladden my heart like a new Matthew Reilly book. It’s made even better by being about my favorite character ever, Shane Schofield, call sign Scarecrow.
In Scarecrow Returns,
our hero is technically in hiding from the bounty put on his head by the French government. Sent to the Arctic to test new equipment for the military, he’s accompanied by three other Marines, one his long time friend and second-in-command Gena ‘Mother’ Newman, four civilians and a robot. Scarecrow’s team is called in as backup to a SEAL team when a rogue military force known only as the Army of Thieves threatens the world with destruction. The Army of Thieves has taken over an old Russian Arctic base known as Dragon Island, where they’ve been releasing an explosive gas into the atmosphere for at least six weeks. If detonated, this gas would scorch the northern hemisphere, leaving ash in it’s wake.
The Army of Thieves is brutal and well organized. Led by a man known only as the Lord of Anarchy, they have all the advantages on their side. Superior weapons, technology and firepower. With only five hours to save the world and a rag tag team to back him up, Scarecrow could face his toughest challenge yet.
I have nothing bad to say about Scarecrow. He is the action hero when it comes to this genre. The only thing I would have preferred was it’s original Australian publication title, Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves.
It’s been a long wait since Scarecrow
(2004) and Hell Island
(2006) were released. While Reilly kept us entertained with the Jack West Jr. series in his absence, nothing compares to Scarecrow. I’m looking forward to future books. Hopefully we won’t have to wait too long to see what’s in store next for Shane Schofield.
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