Review: I know, another werewolf tale...  but definitely worth reading
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2012
The storyline is less like that Twilight, teen pop werewolf and more along the lines of the TV show/move Firefly/Serenity.  It's set in another place that's like Earth, but it's not Earth.  It's like a mix of western frontier and rudimentary technology.  There's not angst ridden characters who are struggling with their lack of souls.  It's not filled with demons though there are some fairly scary characters and creatures in the story.It's traditional in the proving that you don't have to "look" like a monster to be a monster and sometimes, looking like a monster doesn't mean you are a monster.Amethyst is a pretty, wealthy socialite, but she's not shallow.  The story doesn't spend a lot of time giving her background, you just know she's alone, she has no parents, but they seem to have done a fabulous job raising her.  She's strong, sensitive, considerate, independent and skilled.  She wants to go to the Deadlands to look for her estranged and missing sister.  She has the money and the confidence and possibly even the skills to make it out there.  She's accompanied by her three friends, all wealthy and spoiled and maybe not so accomplished.  One who is obsessed with her, one who is in love with her best friend and then her very simple but sweet best friend.Chase is a man's man, though not a man.  He's nursing a broken heart and he realizes, maybe it wasn't so broken, but bruised.  He knows that the human society would not approve of his mating with a human, especially not a socialite.  And he's not so sure she would survive so far away from her world.  He has three packmates with him.  All three are looking forward to the day he settles and finds his mate so they can find theirs.  They're friends and extremely loyal and competent and cool.Of course the two coolest people fall in love with each other.  Of course it's difficult, but they both have the approval of their best friends.  So maybe it can work.  And two groups of beings learn that maybe theirs more to each other than prejudice and they both learn to look past or through exteriors to see the real people within.This is well worth the money.  I enjoyed the story tremendously.  I liked the mixing of the old technologies with the new frontiers.  I like the way Wolven are not werewolves like we historically know them.  They just are.  I like that Chase was so cool and want to read more about his people learning to live with humans and I want to know how Chase and Amethyst are doing.  Where did they end up?  Do they split their time between?  I was disappointed that the story ended so soon.