Review: review of call of the lycan
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
This is another group of books that I have read from Ms. Michelle M. Pillow and these books were classified as a paranormal shifter romance were a pretty good read and I thought a good price.  I didn't really think there was too much paranormal to it.  Yes, there were lycans, mermaids, farfadets and humans being changed into lycans but really it just focused on the explicit copulations of the sexual joining of lycans more so that the paranormal shifter aspects than anything and I think these books should have been classified as paranormal shifter erotica novellas then paranormal shifter romance.  That's not to say I didn't mildly enjoy a little bit of reading this which I did.  I liked the brotherly relationship between the three brothers Ian, Roark and James.  I liked the fact all three of them were lycans and that they were part of a clan and all princes.  I liked Ceana Ian's cursed mermaid, Roark's prim proper Natasha and Claudia James's mate but individually as characters as opposed as them getting together but that is the extent of it.  The characters are sorely lacking in much of anything and are not very developed being quite forgettable but the stories have a continually theme and are a fairly fluffy sexy read.  Despite the fact that I really don't like too much erotica I still rated the entire set four stars will buy and read more books from Ms. Michelle M. Pillow.  Below is what I would of rated each novella separately.I did like the idea of the first novella call of the sea Ian the handsome virile lycan prince hero during each moonlit night continually searches for the one woman who centuries ago saved him from the cold darkness of the sea.  When Ian plunges himself into the ocean it is Ceana the beautiful mermaid heroine who saves him.  After Ceana saves Ian it immediately turns from gratitude to down-right soft core porn which I ended up skipping and I was eager to finish the story.  I did think the story was good until it went into that obscene sexual detail which I could have done without reading that and there were hardly any spelling errors to note so I rated the story three stars.The next novella call of the untamed was a little bit better.  I liked the two definite opposites of the wild crazy rock star imaged boyish hero Roark and the beautiful prim proper Natasha desiring and physically lusting for each other but then magic interferes and Roark ends up proving to Natasha that there is more to him than meets the eye.  In fact I never knew what farfadets were until I actually had to google them after reading the novella and will try to read more about them in future.  I rated the novella four stars.The last novella call of temptation I thought was the best novella out of the three.  I couldn't help but sympathize with James the ever struggling to do good handsome lycan hero to save and protect Claudia the beautiful human turned lycan heroine against her evil maker and villain Meghan.  James was just downright chivalrous I thought even his futile attempts to save and protect her that I felt even with his lycan ability he seemed more relatable and more human than Ian and Roark.  It was also nice to see Ian and Roark come back in this novella and defeat Meghan plus all living happily too that I couldn't help but rate this novella four stars.