The story is beginning to lose some of its punch with all of Roan's self-pity. Some geat new characters have been introduced to keep things fresh. ( )

This series is the most spectacular kick-ass series I've ever read!

It's full of explosions, growls and roars and bursts of light and color, not to mention proverbial shit hitting the fans in copious amounts and raining down on the heads of the excited spectators/readers. Pure awesomeness ...

Big fan, BIG FAN!!!!



...if only it wasn't for the author's love for running a successful joke or two into the ground by the end of an installment. This time victims are "a newbie, so young...." and "no pun intended/pun intended". But it's the only fault with the books I can find so far, so I'm not going to dwell on it.

Oh, yeah, and the cover is gorgeous! The only one I've ever seen that is not bat-shit crazy/scary or hysterical-looking that shows human-to-animal transformation. Did I say "gorgeous"? Yep. That :D ( )

2020 reread
Again my thoughts on this book remain the same. I'm still loving it as much as I did the first time. If anything I'm appreciating everything I'm reading even more!

Original review
Love it, love it, love it... what the hell more can I say? I feel that I'm starting to sound like a broken record with this series as all I can keep on repeating is that I honestly love this series.

The characters are larger than life. Roan is the ultimate kind of guy: super hot, super sexy, romantic, loving, yet brutal, hard-assed, hard-core and mean as well. He is all this and more wrapped into a gorgeious, conflicted and tormented package. Dylan, is a complete opposite, well not in the super hot and sexy, but in personality. He is a Buddhist and trying to practice the principles of peace-loving, forgiving and Zen kind of lifestyle. Together they make an unlikely couple, but a fantastic couple non the less.

Holden, who until now really only was a shadow character in the background gets a greater role in this book. He is another interesting character and I'm glad that we are getting to know him better as well. There are more characters added to the mix again, and some of the older ones have faded into the background a bit.

Overall it truly is a book in a series that I would recommend to everybody I know. It's a completely different take on the "shifter" genre and the books just keep getting better and better. But be warned! Before you finish this one, make sure you have the next one ready to go (as I have lol) 'cause it ends in one hell of a cliff hanger! ( )

Simply amazing story-telling. Can't wait for the next book. ( )

I haven’t read all the books in the series, but one thing I noticed, this series is more mainstream than genre fiction, actually I think the whole series is one of the best example of urban fantasy out there right now. The writing style is unique, the main and supporting characters are original, in their being heroic without being heroes, and the storyline is tragic and engaging, always leaving the reader with the feeling of wanting more, and more will be delivered.

As the same Dylan says, they will be always in three, Roan, him and the ghost of Paris, who basically has never left Roan, living in his skin, lingering on his needs. Roan loves Dylan, I can feel it, but I also feel like Roan doesn’t believe there is a future for Dylan and me, and in a way, would prefer for Dylan to be as much as possible detached from him. I’m not sure if Roan hates the shifter in him, or if, deep down, he feels like he is that shifter, and that denying him he is denying his own self. Dylan represent normalcy, and if he wants to be with Dylan he has to refuse his lion; in a way, Roan is rejecting the lion while, in the end, I had this lingering sensation that Dylan wouldn’t be against the idea to accept it, cause, better than Roan, Dylan understand the lion is not the bad side of Roan, it’s just another side of him.

Yes, that is, after 6 books, my conclusion is that Roan hasn’t to fight the lion, but instead he has to find a way to have it coming out and being a part of him, and both of them need to “know” Dylan to love him completely (well, this is the romance reader speaking).

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