Review: 3.5 stars - Lots of worldbuilding and lots of bad boys alpha shapeshifters but no romance yet
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2012
It is the Dire Wolves duty to keep werewolves in line, and to protect humans from their unruly werewolf 'cousins'. So when a human woman is found murdered and a the leader of a 'paranormal research center' claims that she was murdered by a werewolf and that there is a tape that proves such creatures really exist, the Dires must step in to find the killer as well as making sure that the tape doesn't see the light of day and 'out' the existence of the hidden paranormal world.Dire Warning was a challenge to get into at the start. There were a zillion bad boy alphas characters with oddball names like Reiver, Jinx, Vice, Stray, Cyd - and each had a Brother Wolf which was their wolf side as well so it was hard to keep everyone straight. Plus, there was also a fair amount of world building to absorb with Dire Wolves, their history, Werewolves, other shape shifters, and ghosts, but even with all of that the author seems to have only scratched the surface of her world.Overall, I did end up enjoying the hunt for the killer and the interactions between the Dires and the Weres. I was a little surprised that there wasn't really any romance in this warmup to Stephanie Tyler's new Eternal Wolf Clan series. Since Tyler writes romantic supsense, I was expecting that her new shape shifter series would be Paranormal romantic suspense. But it probably was a good thing that she didn't try to squeeze a quicky romance into this short, and instead saved it for the first book which definitely looks to be a romance from a quick skim of the teaser forDire Needs: A Novel of the Eternal Wolf Clanincluded at the end.  Dire Needs will be out in March, with another book,Dire Wants: A Novel of the Eternal Wolf Clan, to follow in the Fall.