Review: Paranormal Erotica
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2011
Fury is a short novella that can be read in about 30-40 minutes. Depending on what you are looking for, your opinion on this book could vary greatly.Nikki, a werecougar and newcomer to the town of Fury, has recently been chosen as the pack's alpha queen by the elders. Only problem is that the pack is made up of werewolves and she would be the mate of one of the Nathey brothers; the one she chose would be the new male alpha and the other would have to leave the pack. But no one can force her to do anything she doesn't want to do.If you are looking for erotica, this short is incredibly hot and the action starts off fast and furious. In fact, the sex "climaxes" early in the story, then drops off at the end. The two main characters, Nikki and Merrick, are decently developed for a short, but everyone else is two-dimensional. There is a plot that you really don't get much of a feel for until after the sex is consummated. It's almost as if there were a sex short story and a pack short story and they were blended together to make a novella. This could easily be fleshed out to make a decent full-length novel, but the way it is makes the reader feel like there's a lot of backstory that is missing. Maybe that's because I've never read any of the author's other books.And then there's the grammar issues. I'm a bit harsher than normal because the author has been on the New York Times Bestseller list. For a veteran author I would expect better, but maybe it's because this was a freebie and the author didn't submit it to an editor. There were several places where a word was either omitted or used twice, eg., "...choose her out all the other pack females?" and, "other a few other apartments". There was a problem with at least one homonym ("whither" instead of "wither") a wrong word usage (chuffed off her shoes) and a change in tense within the same sentence (I can't wait to slid). This was just in the first half of the story, and not even all of the mistakes that I found. Not story killers, but disappointing from an experienced writer.Overall, I'm glad I read it, will read the next free short in the set and might look into her other works depending on what I find in the novella "Tranquility".