Heart of the Wolf: To Win Her, He Must Fight to the Death... [HEART OF THE WOLF] [Mass Market Paperback] [Paperback]

Terry(Author) Spear (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca (April 30, 2008)
• ASIN: B001T6Y1IQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,513,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Award-winning author and creator of award-winning teddy bears who have found homes all over the world including Australia, Switzerland, China, and Russia, and a retired officer of the US Army Reserves, I love to plant trees and flowers and if I could, I'd turn all the deserts green. Time travels are my favorite read, although I love to read most anything, and the Bourne series, Romancing the Stone, Sixth Sense, Legend, The Princess Bride, Stardust, Inkheart, LOTR, and tons of other movies are my favorites.

I love to research, to make urban fantasy worlds real, to bring a little of the paranormal into our world. Even in "Winning the Highlander's Heart" the heroine feels she is cursed and she has second sight. But I try to do it in a way that feels real, and not fantasized. :) Currently, I'm working on the first of the new jaguar shifter series, but still am working on wolf book number 11, 12 and 13! So more hunky wolves to come! Dreaming of the Wolf was just released! Book 8 in the series.

Customer Reviews

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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice try but no dice; Apathy is the only emotion I have for this read., March 26, 2009

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Mrs. Baumann - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heart of the Wolf: To win her, he must fight to the death... (Mass Market Paperback)

Plot Summary: It goes against my feminist nature to have a heroine who can only protect her man by staying away from him forever, but Bella's hands are tied in this patriarchal wolf world. She flees her own pack when the alpha tries to repeatedly rape her when she was still a juvenile (in the 1850s). Her true love, Devlyn, was sure to be the loser in a fight against Volan, so Bella moved to Portland, Oregon. Cut to the present, and Bella's undercover existence is blown when she's accidentally captured in wolf form by some zoo-loving, ignorant do-gooders. Horny wolves come out of the woodwork, including Devlyn, Volan, and psychotic lonely `reds' from the local pack.

It's hard for me to stir up any emotions for this book. I don't love it, I don't hate it, I just don't care all that much. I know one thing for certain -- I don't ever want to be a female wolf in this paranormal world. Bella has zero control over the choice of her mate, and anyone who can rip out Devlyn's throat can claim her as his personal trophy wife. The only way she can take a stand is to run away, which explains her 150-year self-imposed exile from her own pack.

It was almost comical how many wolves wanted a piece of Bella. It's like she was the only drop of water in the desert. The sex scenes with Devlyn were spicy at the start, but after a while it actually felt monotonous. When the couple started tracking down the mysterious killer within the local `red' wolf pack, I started speed reading until I reached the big fight scenes at the end. Mercifully, the fights were short and I finished the book. Heck, I'm bored just writing this review. It's past time to move on. I can't recommend this one unless you are rabid to read anything containing werewolves.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good story, but..., May 19, 2008

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Carrie A. Baumbach - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heart of the Wolf: To win her, he must fight to the death... (Mass Market Paperback)

I loved the storyline of Heart of the Wolf. I loved the characters.

I didn't love how it was written. The same phrases are repeated constantly, and the fight scenes are short and have a severe lack of description.

I only read all the way through because I wanted to see how things between Bella and Devlyn turned out, but I can honestly say this book has literally put me to sleep more than once.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Thank God I didn't pay money for this., April 29, 2008

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Deidre Huesmann (Bremerton, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heart of the Wolf: To win her, he must fight to the death... (Mass Market Paperback)

The first chapter set up such potential. We're introduced to Bella and Devlyn, our main characters, and the tension between them and their pack leader, Volan. In hopes of saving Devlyn's life, Bella abandons the pack that took her in and she starts a lone wolf life in Oregon.

The author sets up a murder mystery, but everything is predictable. The villains are easy to spot. There are absolutely no surprises around the flimsy corners Spear sets up. There isn't even any tension in the wolf fights--and does she have any idea how injuries work? Tearing out a throat doesn't cause instant death; it would be bloody and gruesome with a lot of twitching as the wolf bleeds out.

Bella is very whiny and unsympathetic, with absolutely no faith in the man she claims to love. And Devlyn is just atrocious. Any man who coos those nicknames at a woman isn't the type to be potential leader for ANYTHING, much less a pack of wolves.

I'd like to give her props for some originality--most don't consider wolf breeding when werewolves have kids, so the triplets and quadruplets were a nice touch--but it just falls flat in the bad story-telling, terrible dialogue, and awful characters.

Why bother with the review, then? Because I could actually finish the novel. Bad as it was, it was more like a train wreck, so it kept my attention with how Just Plain Awful this novel turned out to be.