by Stephanie Tyler
Rating: 3/5
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The supernatural world is rising up against the human one. The weretrappers want to control the humans, and only the immortal Dire wolves stand in the way of total destruction. Stray, a Dire, and his long-lost brother, Killian, emerge as the leaders of their pack. To keep themselves and the humans safe, the Dires must find a witch as powerful as the one who has been helping the weretrappers. They find what they are looking for in Kate, a human who survived a horrible car accident that left her back scarred with a handprint no one else is able to see. Stray senses in Kate the powers of a witch and recruits her to help the Dires—all the while knowing that she is so powerful that they will need to kill her once she helps defeat the weretrappers. Stray doesn’t expect the powerful connection that he feels with Kate, or his irresistible need to protect her. They cannot hide their feelings for each other, and what once was taboo now seems inevitable... |
This is the second of Stephanie Tyler’s Eternal Wolf Clan books. Poor Stephanie seems to have trouble getting her series’ past three books. I can’t tell why because I absolutely love all her books. But I’m reviewing this with hopes to get enough people to try out her stuff so we can get a few more in this series.
For an author who started on military suspense romance, Tyler clearly knows what she’s doing when writing paranormal romance. The Dire Wolf world-building in the previous book Dire Needs, was excellent and this time we get more details on the wider world not just the main Dire Wolf pack.
Our heroine Kate is a witch. Since discovering Seb’s treachery in book one and Rogue’s capture, the clan have been looking for a powerful witch to help them fight back. Stray rescues Kate from a group of young Were boys who were all set to attack her, and later when he goes to fetch her he interrupts Leo Shimmin’s attack to take her captive. Kate at first doesn’t believe she’s a witch as her mother was a violent horrible woman who beat her for the sign of the devil which hadn’t appeared. Because of this ingrained fear of being a witch she refuses to admit it for a while, until she realises her ritual to call a familiar worked, and brought her Stray.
Stray is eaten up with fear over whether he and his brother Killian will end up fulfilling the prophecy about them and destroy the world. And with the stupid abuse his parents and clan put him through because they didn’t heed the Elders message to look after the Dire’s with abilities, who could blame him.
To be honest between the two books, you have to wonder how dumb the regular Dires are because the Elders are pretty powerful and pretty clear with their messages and yet they still ignore it.
Stray and Kate are a unique match, certainly not who I’d have picked for the other but they work together. The only downside is that the Elder pretty much told Stray no he couldn’t mate Kate and yet after the performed the ritual’s first step anyway Kate received a glyph of Stray’s wolf. So are they mated or not? Will the Elders punish them for it? Not sure, but I hope it gets cleared up more in book three. And can I say I appreciate that not a single mortal/immortal pairing has happened in this series?
Storyline wise because the main plot of the series is actually fairly separate from Stray and Kate which is nice as they play an important part, bringing in a witch to the good side, helping to wake up Rogue and getting rid of Seb, mostly. I did really like the deeper look at Seb’s state of mind and I suspect we’re getting set up for him to have some sort of redemption later down the track.
The Dires and Weres deal with the Dire Wolf Ghost Army from book one, the vampires are kind of brought into the fold and Jinx’s story is very interesting
The FBI agent Angus Young from book one is brought deeper into the supernatural world which stops him from going after Harm for the coincidental deaths. I liked that he didn’t take either the weretrappers or the Were’s story for granted. The way that he planned to play both sides was definitely ambitious, especially since he was willing to kill a presumably innocent Were to get in with the trappers. I liked the subplot between Cain and agent Young, which both intrigued and surprised me at turns and I hope to see it develop over the series.
Also the way that the pack is tight-knit yet not a buddy-buddy thing is an interesting dynamic you don’t really see a lot of in PNR these days. I will be picking up Dire Desires when I can and despite the horrible badness of this review I encourage you to do the same.
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