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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
4 stars, August 30, 2007
This review is from: Primal Desires (Primes Series, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)
Sofia Huniya does not know who she is, or what she is, until she is shown the truth about her heritage. She is a Wolf Tamer, a member of a clan who can control werewolves. It is this talent, at least in part, that draws Jason Cage, the vampire Prime known as the Beast Master, to her. His talent lies in taming ordinary wolves, but once, he also tamed feral werewolves. Now, with Sofia's cousin missing and a group of supremist, modern Nazi, bitten werewolves out to use Sofia and her cousin to found a new master race, Jason will have to make serious choices that could land him in jail or worse to save the woman he loves and perhaps the world.
**** With every new entry in this series, the world of the Primes grows more complex and intriguing. It is fantastic to see Jason get his own story after his intriguing entrance as a "guest star" in the last one. Seeds are sown in this novel that should bear fruit for many novels to come, and readers are very fortunate to be able to reap the reward. ****
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This should have been at least two books, September 5, 2007
This review is from: Primal Desires (Primes Series, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)
Primal Desires suffers from lack of focus, too many threads, un-interesting flashbacks, and from too many characters stealing the spotlight from the main romance. Where I normally enjoy the complexity and depth that multiple threads bring to a story, here the threads are superficial and the switching back and forth between so many different characters and flashing back not only bogged down the pace, but also left no room for the interesting scene I would have loved to see -- the rescue of Sofia's father.
Jason is a wonderful character introduced in Sizemore's Primal Heat, who had a glamorous life as a Vegas star and who's painful past separated him from the rest of the Primal world. None of that is brought into this book and it keeps his romance from having the depth it could have. Sophia is ok, but not developed enough to feel like she is really worthy of Jason. Fortunately the mate-bond is blind and chemistry is all that matters anyway.
One thread deserved to have its own book - Mike and Cathy's romance. If Sizemore had some how integrated Justin and Sofia's romance and her development into a were-tamer into Justin's glitzy stage world, then the whole Nazi werewolf plot could have been Mike and Cathy's book. Theirs is the story I would have like to have read more of. Sizemore could have milked the pathos - exploiting Mike's conflict between his feelings for Cathy and his duty to the were-kind as Tracker. Shown him on the edge of sliding back into alcoholism, with Cathy redeeming him in the end. The Bleythrin werewolve/detective brothers have been under-utilized in the Sizemore's last two books -- and that doesn't change here -- it was disappointing that Mike and Cathy didn't get their fair screen time.
If you are new to the Prime series do not start with this book, it doesn't stand alone well. Except for the heroine and the bad guys, all the other characters have been introduced in the previous two books and with all the other stuff going on in this book there was no attempt to bring a new reader up to speed. None of the old characters are fleshed out here. Sizemore also assumes that you are familiar with the Prime world and the rules of its vamp and were societies.
If you don't care if your romances have a great plot with fleshed out characters, there is plenty of steamy stuff to fill the pages. I may buy Sizemore's next book, which will likely be Sidonie's story, but I won't rush out to buy it new.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth reading, January 5, 2009
This review is from: Primal Desires (Primes Series, Book 6) (Mass Market Paperback)
Lately I have noticed authors making really long series and having the story lines for the next novel begun in the one before. I find this very distracting from the story line.
That said...this book is horrible. The story line is weak and there are SO many characters in the book that it is sometimes hard to keep track of who is saying or thinking what. There are at least 4 romances going on at the same time as well which I also hated. The main characters are only in about half the novel and you never really get to connect with them or see them bond. Sid is in this book a lot even though she is only a secondary character. I don't like her at all and was very disappointed she dominated this story so much.
This book is just a bridge to the next not a book that is a stand alone like a book really should be even when in a series. That is what epilogue is for. I skipped some parts near the end because I was so tired of reading the main characters repeat the same dialog over and over. Very boring read with no real suspense of any kind.
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