Review: Great Start To A New Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
The story line is action-packed and engaging. The heroes are strong, masculine and conduct themselves based on a code of honor. Hopefully, the author will dial back the references to the code a bit in her next book.Ardal is a leader who inspires the respect and loyalty of his men. He takes his responsibility to them seriously. Falling in love with Fiona after believing that he would never have a mate, pulls him in two directions...duty to his men and code vs love. I am somewhat ambivalent about Fiona, the heroine of the book. For me, she is a contradiction: strong/weak, brave/fearful, independent/dependent, appalled by the violence/accepting. Overall, I liked her. Much of the emotion in this book is about how these two main characters learn that competing needs can co-exist.There are so many characters in the first book, however, that it is a challenge to keep them straight. There are also a lot of dead bodies, but the Hunters are rather matter-of-fact about the killing, so it doesn't seem gory. I am a little disappointed that this book focuses on action outside the bedroom for the most part.I stayed up quite late to finished the book. I would buy it again and I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series, aHunter4Saken.