Review: Review From My Urban Fantasies
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 12, 2013
Review originally posted on My Urban Fantasies.(myurbanfantasies.blogspot)In Instinct Slade's cousin, Amber, was kidnapped by a group of werewolves, known as the Dirty Dozen. Amber is half-human and half-demon. Amber's powers make her a unique commodity, in the shifter community. Amber has the ability to stop shifters from shifting. Since the Dirty Dozen is made up of twelve of the most ruthless werewolf packs, Amber's gift is irresistible.It's one year later and time has not cooled Slade's thoughts of revenge. Slade is still pissed off that that the Dirty Dozen tried to kill him while he was protecting Amber. As if that was not reason enough, the Dirty Dozen are still after Amber.During the assassination of Larsen, an Alpha of one of the Dirty Dozen packs, things do not go exactly as planned. Oh, Slade managed to kill his target, but only after the beautiful receptionist who escorted Slade up to Larsen's office had a go at it first. Turns out the receptionist is a Dark Elf who took a job in Larsen's building so she could get close enough to kill him. This alone is enough to intrigue Slade, the fact that she has funky colored magic only makes her more interesting.Slade is my favorite character in Instinct and Dysus Dreamer. The fact that Dysus Dreamer is told mostly through Slade's point of view is just a whole bunch of awesome-sauce. Who would not want a chance to poke around inside Slade's head? Happily, Slade is not entirely the brutish ass he wants everyone to believe he is.While there are some repeat characters from Instinct, Dysus Dreamer is going to be a little different. Instinct is an urban fantasy that has some romance in it. Meaning while Rory and Amber explored their feelings for each other, it was not the main focus of the story. Dysus Dreamer has no romance in it. So to all the paranormal romance readers who enjoyed reading Instinct, you may be a little disappointed with Dysus Dreamer.Dysus Dreamer also had a somewhat cliffhanger ending that left me with a few questions. Hopefully they will be answered in the next installment. Dysus Dreamer is action packed and I'm looking forward to the third book in The Halfling Chronicles.