Review: Our heroine does have super speed and fantastic hearing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2014
Wendy Sparrow has definitely written a werewolf (they go by lycan in this universe) story with a twist here. Our heroine does have super speed and fantastic hearing, but she also suffers from near-dibilitating alergies and has a relationship with her four(!) air purifiers that borders on unnatural.Seriously. She's taken down by a housecat in the first scene. (I was going to say "common housecat", but I'm not entirely convinced he is.) She's allergic to marshmallows. (According to the author's note, so is Ms. Sparrow. My condolences...) Though I do love the fact that Dane puts her list of allergens on the fridge. And memorizes it. And they put the list to good use...more than once.“What are you doing?” he asked, smiling against her skin.“Listing out my allergies so I can keep my hormones from taking over.”He shouldn’t keep going. They were meant to be paying attention to their environment. Plus, now “ragweed” had joined the list of words that couldn’t be said in mixed company. They should stop. He pulled back enough to drag his shirt off.“You stopped on sesame seeds,” he said.“Carrots, celery, cumin.” Cumin was said on a long moan. She made spices she couldn’t have sound even more forbidden.“You forgot coriander.” He groaned as she bit his collarbone.“I didn’t forget coriander. I just hadn’t gotten there yet.” It earned him another bite.Oh, hell, they should really stop. “You were listing the Cs in alphabetical order.”“I was just listing them.” She pressed herself closer to him. “Fennel, kiwi.” She tipped her head back and those nails scraped down his back again. “Coriander.”Coriander was on the list of inappropriate words now.Ms. Sparrow's sense of humor really shines in this novel. Even though I will readily admit that a simple conversation or two could have resolved most if not all of Vanessa and Dane's relationship woes in--oh, the second chapter maybe--I so thoroughly enjoyed reading the rest of the novel I didn't even care. Plus, the "whodunnit" at the end isn't completely obvious, which made it fun (though that individual was on my short list of suspects, I wasn't at all sure until the big reveal).Please tell me this is going to be a series! I need more from this universe. And I really, really want Jordan to get a HEA too.Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A-I recieved a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review.