Review: Terrific book...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2012
Mary Calmes is a skilled writer. Her stories are always beautifully written and satisfying. That said, this book delivered. The characters were fun and engaging. They were real people with strengths and failings just like the rest of us rather than some two-dimensional creatures that often populate books in this genre. There were some flat characters, but they were not the leads, and several of those ended up growing during the course of the book, so I appreciated that.Jin just wants a quiet life and to be left alone. His world is turned upside-down when he meets his true mate, Logan. Though not were-panthers, I bet there are many of us who have had our worlds turned upside-down upon meeting 'the one,' so it was nice to see that played out here. I think one of the best parts of the story was in a disappointment, though. So often a HEA is based around everyone coming together and loving and accepting everyone else while they all hold hands and sing kumbayah. This book had a HEA filled with reality. That made it even more satisfying.I did have a couple of problems reading this story, though. First, until he met Jin, Logan was completely straight and about to marry woman. the next instant he's ready to go to bed with Jin with absolutely no qualms or reservations. Considering the reality of the rest of the story, that kind of bugged me. The other problem was that everything to do with the were-panthers was couched in all sorts of arcane terminology. Logan and Jin as Semel and Reah were just the beginning. There were terms for the second-in-command, the person who kept track of the laws, the woman married to a Semel, different rites and rituals. I really needed a glossary about a quarter of the time I was reading.Disclaimer: This title was provided to me free for review from netgalley.com