Soul Mates: Secrets [Paperback]

Jourdan Lane (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 31, 2008

Peter's life gets more complicated with every passing day. His relationship with his vampire lover Lucien is on the rocks, he can't seem to get enough of his friend and confidant, Nikolas, and events going on inside the coven are making him wonder when everything is going to blow up in his face. Through murder investigations and negotiations with angels, Peter doesn't know who to trust, as old friendships and loyalties begin to shift and change. Jealousy, intrigue and deception abound, and all Peter wants is for his life to get back to normal, if his life can ever be normal again. His love life is incredibly complicated, the Council wants him to get to work for them, and there's someone out there committing crimes who looks an awful lot like him. Can Peter find a way to mend his broken friendships, fix what's wrong between him and Lucien, and keep the coven together when everything seems to be against them? Soul Mates: Secrets continues Jourdan Lane's popular Soul Mates series, which features the novels Bound by Blood, Deceptions, and Sacrifice. Secrets also contains A Coven Christmas, a Soul Mates holiday story never before published in paperback!

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Torquere Press (October 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603705058
• ISBN-13: 978-1603705059
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,032,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Secrets Abound, October 26, 2008

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Jessewave (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul Mates: Secrets (Paperback)

Peter's and Lucien's relationship seems headed for extinction. They still love each other but the secrets between them are tearing them apart. Their issues are getting worse every day and everyone in the coven is waiting for the powder keg to explode.

Soul Mates: Secrets opens with Peter trying to cope with his new life as a half vampire half werewolf and all that it entails - the sex, the feedings, the pettiness among members of the coven, not to mention Lucien's extreme anger and jealousy over the close and complex relationship between him and Nikolas. In the midst of all this infighting the target on Peter's back keeps getting larger as his life is threatened by a very powerful but unknown enemy who knows his every move and choreographs his murders to implicate Peter.

Angels, demons, vamps, werewolves, incubi and other species really come out to play in this, the newest Soul Mates book. Jourdan Lane kicks butt in this series. There is nothing that she does not explore sexually between the main protagonists and when you think you're beyond shocked she lets you have it right between the eyes again with both barrels. Monogamy does not exist in her world of vampires, werewolves and incubi and for a very good reason, they are not human and therefore human norms and practices do not apply.

The plot is even more complex than the previous books and secrets abound. Some answers will be revealed, but there will be so many more new doors that the author opens you are left to wonder at the breath and scope of her imagination. This book introduces new characters - Tanner, a police detective who is also a werewolf, Zephyr an angel with an edge, and Peter's secret enemy who might be a lot closer than he thinks. As usual, the sex is through the roof and I'm sure Lucien's coven must go through more sheets than a brothel, but what I loved most is the emergence of Nikolas into his own and the very complex relationship between his wolf and Peter's.

At the end of this book there's a hint of who's behind the attacks on Peter and inciting a turf war, but no one will know who it is until Book 5, Soul Mates: Ascension, which promises to have even more action than the series so far. The body count, blood and guts are in the stratosphere but there was a moment when everything stood still and Peter's and Nikolas' wolves really moved me - the air between them was so alive and palpable - and at last their secret is revealed.

A number of pieces fall into place and fans of the series will have answers to most questions raised in the previous books but Jourdan Lane would not be the master storyteller that she is without introducing even more complex issues for the next book. The end of Secrets will amaze you - do not miss it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's no secret this is a fun story, June 3, 2010

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Robert Carnevali "Typical, middle-aged guy" (Trenton, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul Mates: Secrets (Kindle Edition)

Soul Mates: Secrets is a continuation of the saga of Lucien and Peter, vampire lovers and Masters of their coven. Lucien is the centuries-old vampire and Master of the coven, Peter is is recently-made-vampire lover and the only person Lucien is willing to treat fully as an equal rather than a servant or coven member. But once again, they're having marital problems and their relationship seems to be in serious jeopardy. Lucien and Peter are both holding back information from each other, and each one's pride and short temper help keep them apart. To make matters worse, the relationships become more complicated.

Lucien is in love with Peter. Peter is in love with Lucien. But Peter is also part werewolf, and his wolf half recognizes the werewolf Nikolas as his mate. Nikolas sees Peter as his wolf mate, but is in love with Sabaan, a demon of lust who loves not only Nikolas, but also has a nice crush on Lucien, who returns the crush, but also has strong romantic feelings for Nikolas.

Are you still with me?

And to make this even MORE complex, there are a series of murders committed by unknown vampires and werewolves, and it looks like the perpetrators are framing Peter.

The dialog is crisp and well-written, the book flows at a brisk pace, and the already highly-erotic encounters the author is known for in her previous works is even more charged and dynamic here, with encounters between shifting werewolves, demons, vampires, and everything in between.

The book ends on a cliffhanger, unlike the other novels which find a natural breaking point for the story and leave you with a sense of conclusion of the main plot points. With Secrets, while relationships are fixed and characters grow, the main plot of the rogue vampires and werewolves turns out to be a setup for the next book in the series. Also, while the characters have all reached harmony in their relationships by the end of each story, the next installment in the series has them at disarray again. While harmony is achieved this time, will it be permanent? History says "no", and I can only hope that the trend of "fight at the beginning of the story, make up and be in love by the end" doesn't become too repetitive.

Still, it's a highly-charged, well-written work with complex and highly nuanced characters, a rich and detailed genre, and intriguing plot. It's one of the more addicting series I've read and highly recommended.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars IS THAT IT?, October 11, 2010

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Aryael de Kaprii (California, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Soul Mates: Secrets (Paperback)

Wait a damn minute, this cannot possibly be the last book in this series. NOTHING WAS SOLVED. Ok, Im sorry, I am a huge fan of M/M Romance novels, just read my other reviews, I always speak about the positive of these books, but this one... I dont know, I feel like I got slapped across my face by some random person in the street and they just walked away like nothing happened. Usually I start with the positive, but in this case NO MORE MR.NICE GUY.

Peter's father or brother killed his grandparents? Ok, but wait, Cyril fk'd around with Caleb's head and thus they buried Lucien alive. But wait there is more, Who sliced up Caleb in book one? Oh wait actually I think they did solve that one. How about this, What is going on with Simon's wings? From book two on, this was nothing but a bunch of stuff happening and thats it. "Oh crap the club is on fire, we will solve that later lets go bang it out in bed." "Peter your grandparents are dead." "Oh wow, come here let me blow you." "I want Simon to get his wings back" "Ok, see ya tomorrow." 3week later "Wow, you were an animal in bed." Im all for hot sex, dont get me wrong, aint nothing wrong with some good lov'N. But for crying outloud could we solve some issues while driving our hands down each other's pants?

Whats up with the gang living in Sabaan's place, arent we gonna go and kick them the hell out?

I have to admit, and really I hate to admit it, but this series was just NOT the bizness. Im hoping she keeps going and wraps all this up, but she dug a big hole for herself, because (in the words of Ricky Ricardo) she gotta lota splaining to do.

Ok, now the positive. The whole world of Vampire and Werewolf and Demon lovers is just awsome. No matter how crappy the story is, it is still an exciting world. Not to mention the comfort and the security even though danger is everywhere, Peter has Lucien, Xander, Nikolas and Sabaan. He's got Simon the chef from heaven, Silver the hetero-gaurd and an army of Vampires and Lycans, the latter which he is now the leader of. That is just awsome. (and another unresolved issue).

It is very cleaver how Lane made both Lucien and Nikolas Peter's mates. That worked really well, it really validated the three-way, four-way...um whatever relationship(s). Ok, so I wasnt really feeling this series and so because I gave all the others good marks, 5 and 4 stars, I am going to give this 1 star because I cannot give this book the praise that I gave Laura Baumbach and JL Langley. This book just did not hit that mark. So while again I loved what was going on, nothing got solved and the characters just were not as engaging and loveable as others that I have experienced.