Review: Second in The Three Series with a twist between humans, vampires and werewolves. No big spoilers here!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
Again, I am not a huge fan of paranormal books, totally over the whole Twilight phenom. But, I have totally loved the first two books in this series. Yeah, the whole Oracles and prophecy plot is not totally original, I believe KA's approach was different enough to have kept me interested enough to power thru the book in one day.Sonia, the human, lost her parents at the age of 6. Her guardian, Gregor, cares about her well being but is not affectionate and ripped all mementos of her parents away. She has special abilities that her father had to drill into her to keep hidden from EVERYONE. So, Sonia has basically grown up ALONE and LONELY.  She has no real friends, no connections and no life. She also has a chronic debilitating blood disorder that requires nightly injections. The same night her parents are killed she meets a wounded "puppy" in the woods and she takes him home to try and care for him. But when she awakens he has gone and her father had told her that wounded animals go into the woods to die alone. At the age of 11, she begins to have dreams of her puppy coming to her that seem to morph into dreams of her "dream lover".  On a night when her home is broken into and she is almost raped, she is rescued by Callum.Sorry, I don't see this woman as weak. God, there is nothing more judgmental of a woman then another woman. Apparently some readers have not taken to heart what I think KA has been trying to get across to her readers thru a lot of her books. We are a sisterhood!!!!!! Until we get that fact thru our heads AND our hearts we will always be seen as the weaker sex. Men don't do this!Callum, the werewolf , is King of all the werewolves. He is over 300 years old but he has not had a lot of interaction with humans, especially human females, other then sexually.  He is not thrilled that the prophecies have foretold that his mate is to be human and on top of that she's blonde!  He has never been attracted to blondes and he can sometimes be a jerk, because he does not understand how the human female mind works...do most men?Lucien and Leah, from the first book do make an appearance. The plot is driven forward because of the prophecies and the totally understandable mis-understandings that occur between Sonia and Callum. Sonia does not understand Callum's culture because he does not tell her that he is King of the werewolves. Sonia  overhears Callum and his brothers talking and does not understand what she hears. Callum has no clue how to talk to Sonia about all the things she has to understand. And the other characters, Sonia's guardian as well as Callum's own mother are keeping secrets.You get hints of the ending long the way. But KA totally managed to surprise me because it was not the ending I was expecting but dreading. I loved the book. Will I re-read it as many times as I have the Rock Chicks, Colorado Mountain, Unfinished Heroes, Dream and Chaos series? Don't know yet. We'll see.