Hunter's Fall (The Hunters) [Mass Market Paperback]

Shiloh Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 7, 2011 | Series: The Hunters

Nessa lost her memory following a near-death experience. Dominic is a Hunter dealing with his own problems with memory and sanity. When the two are put together to battle the forces of darkness-while trying to restore what they've lost-their all-consuming passion becomes an even greater unknown.

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About the Author

Shiloh Walker is the national bestselling author of many novels, including Hunting the Hunter, Hunter's Salvation, and Hunters: Heart and Soul.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (June 7, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425241807
• ISBN-13: 978-0425241806
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Shiloh Walker has been writing since she was a kid... she fell in love with vampires with the book Bunnicula and has worked her way up to the more...ah... serious vampire stories. She loves reading and writing anything paranormal, anything fantasy, but most all anything romantic. Once upon a time, she worked as a nurse, but now she writes full time and lives with her family in the Midwest.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great ending for a worthy witch, I was glad Nessa finally found love again., June 8, 2011

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Bookaholics Reviewer (Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hunter's Fall (The Hunters) (Mass Market Paperback)

Hunter's Fall by Shiloh Walker

Paranormal Romance - June 7th, 2011

4 stars

Hunter's Fall is the greatly anticipated book to the author's paranormal Hunters series. Hunters are highly skilled paranormal beings who protect the world against evil.

Nessa is great witch who is hundreds of years old. She is tired of living. When she was young, her husband was killed and he vowed to come back to her. However, he has never returned and she wants to depart her lonely life. When she battles with an evil blood witch, Nessa hopes it will finally kill her. But to her dismay she finds she has inherited the witch's young body instead! When her beloved young charged dies, it is a last straw to her sanity and Nessa becomes restless and reckless.

Dominic is a young vampire Hunter who has always dreamed of a mysterious woman. When he discovered she might actually be real, he is determined to find her at any cost. But what happens when the powerful witch doesn't want to be found and has lost her memory? Can he save her in time?

I was excited to read this book because I wanted poor Nessa to finally find love. I could understand her deep weariness of carrying on alone and was so happy that she would finally find love again! But sometimes I felt the book lingers too much on her sadness and loneliness, which made me wish that Nessa would do something to snap out of her depression. Dominic is the perfect hero. He will let nothing stop him from finding Nessa once he discovers she is real, even if it means fighting against someone stronger than himself. This only thing I was a bit disappointed with was that there were too few flashbacks concerning Nessa's past with her husband. I wanted to know about more them and how they were together before tragedy struck. Also I would have also liked to know more about Nessa's life as a young Hunter.

A great ending for a worthy witch, I was glad Nessa finally found love again.

Reviewed by Steph from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Author For Me!, February 8, 2012

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Lisa McGeen (OXFORD, MI, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hunter's Fall (The Hunters) (Mass Market Paperback)

First, I want to thank Shiloh for allowing me to be apart of her blog tour. I love this series and was so excited to get the chance to preview this book ( I had been waiting -- sometimes impatiently for it). But now its time is here. Normally, I would do my own summary of the book and what it was about but in this case I am not going to. I think that this book is so good that you really just need to get out there and read it for yourself! I know for me I got sucked into this book and read it all in one sitting. I am thrilled that it meet and exceeded all of my expectations. I find Shiloh's approach to this series very refreshing and different. I think the way that Nessa is forced to handle her emotions in this book makes it different than other paranormal books I have read recently. Shiloh Walker has a wonderful style and a certain flair for being scenes and characters to life and Nessa is one of my all time favorite characters. My only concern, if it can really be one, is that there were times where the story slowed down a bit and I had to make myself focus to get though it but those were few and pretty far between. While I know I told you I read it in one sitting, it still did slow down in parts where I just had to keep reading because I knew it was going to pick up again.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the Hunters but not this story, November 12, 2011

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FizzySmile (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hunter's Fall (The Hunters) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have been a fan of Shiloh Walker for at least 10-12 years...while I haven't read ALL her books, she ranks as one of my favorites and many of her books remain on my keeper shelf, including the early ones from this series. I've read all the books in the Hunter's series, including those from the original publisher, Ellora's Cave and ones that have been available through another publisher, I believe it's Samhain. I will say right off I prefer these to the new mainstream novels. However, over all, this is a great series but to truly enjoy it and connect with the story and characters, you need to read all of them.

I was very excited that Nessa was finally going to find love, especially after everything she's been through. She has been the rock of the Hunter's for so long, she deserves happiness. I felt Dominic was a worthy mate and reincarnation for Nessa--dark, brooding and alpha (or "Master") but also willing to be vulnerable and put his heart out there for her. I love that Ms. Walker brings characters in from previous stories to keep them intertwined. One of the problems I've found with some series is that too often the story will focus on the main characters without enough back story and previous characters to offer that connection. If you're going to write a series where so many characters are integral and well loved, you have to continue to use them as supporting characters in future publications.

This being said, I had a very hard time with this particular book. Even though it's a reasonable length, I just felt like it was too long. I kept thinking "OK, THIS chapter, they'll meet...." and they didn't and the struggle continued. Another reviewer pointed out the Nessa seemed to be stuck in her depression and it kept cycling. I agree, but I see it more that we spent a lot of time in the heads of both Dominic and Nessa and while that's necessary to some extent to know the story, it felt like too much to me. I didn't think it was a bad story, just that it seemed to drag on at times.

Will this prevent me from continuing to read and enjoy future chapters in this series? No, not at all. I'm looking forward to whatever is next, and I'm hoping we'll see a story for Brad once he's older. As with other authors whose series I love, some are better than others. All I need to do is pull one of my favorites off the book shelf and I remember why I love it so much. This just won't be one of those books.