Review: Wooing His Mate - Lighthearted Lycan + Vampire romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 22, 2014
This author is a very good value at this price point.  Briers work falls almost squarely in the middle of two genres:  paranormal romance and erotica.  Fans of either genre looking for a fun, fast read will like these books.  Another plus is consistency.  When readers find an enjoyable book, the cry goes up, echoing high school cheerleaders, "We want another one!  Just like the other one!"  Successful mainstream authors such as Feehan and Krentz understand this well.Elements I like about Briers work.  1)  The vampires are not played with a heavy note of tragedy, brooding introspection or constant conflict.  Their "kryptonite" helping is lighter than most.  They can enjoy real food.  They do not fall into a coma in daylight, nor burst into flame from a single sunbeam.  They must contend only with an addiction to blood laced violent combat and strive to rein this back so the best of them can abstain or serve as protectors, while the worst apparently devolve to spree killers and pocket Mussolinis. 2)  In my favorites of Briers works, there is a broad element of situational humour and banter that makes me chuckle and grin from chapter to chapter.  3) The paranormal elements in Briers books are still in hiding from the world at large, unlike Hamilton, for instance, or later Briggs.  There are Fae who mysteriously appear thus far to be only female and not entirely synonymous with witches.  There are Vampires and Lycans and werewolves and spells and wards and hexes and curses.  It is interesting to see that one pack selects a remote island, another intends to buy up an entire isolated valley, while still others more or less integrate into small towns.  No urban packs as in Clare' s work so far.As to the many errors in language spelling and punctuation that other reviewers have mentioned, it is true, but improving in later books such as "His mate Brothers Cody" and that is all I ask when an author has the storyteller gift.  Especially as my own theory is that English may be a second language for Briers.  One error in particular found in three different books where "floor" is used when outdoors instead of ground or dirt or pavement leads me to think this may be valid, and I will allow much more slack, as I have had my own foreign language embarrassments involving "pulgas" and "pulgadas" (fleas and inches).  Recommend .