10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Start to New Series, January 5, 2007
This review is from: Touch a Dark Wolf (The Shadowmen, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
Erin Morgan sensed it was going to be a bad day before discovering four dead bodies drained of blood where she worked in the posh, state of the art medical center of Manhattan, but not one that saw her running for her very life! Nor could she ever imagine while fleeing to her home state of Tennessee that two snarling beasts would be landing on the hood of her car causing her to drive off the road. No, and if that wasn't bad enough -- waking up to find one very big, virile, and very naked man on the hood of her car - well.... now depending on how you look at it, things could be looking up!
*** Newer author Jennifer St. Giles is certainly making people sit up and take notice and with this fast action fantasy/thriller she starts off a new series that is sure to entice a whole new set of paranormal romance genre fans. In it, she introduces a new set heroes called Shadowmen -- shape-shifters whose purpose was to guard mortals like Erin from the evil blood-sucking Vladarians. Unfortunately, as our hero Jared battled one of the demons he was bitten. The poison it inflicted, would in time, turn Jared into the very evil being he was sworn to battle. A great portion of the plot is spent with St. Giles doing an admirable job of showing the anguish of Jared and also of his fellow comrades who made the heartbreaking choice of allowing him to live before the poison destroyed all that was pure and good before overtaking his very soul.
Erin had her own problems to contend with knowing that the miracle doctor she worked for, hailed as a hero for his ground breaking cancer treatments was in fact a murderer! After her disenchantment with her former employer it was no stretch for her to be wary of Jared as he aroused a passion in her that she was deathly afraid of giving into. In developing Erin, the author developed her deftly in both keeping her interested in the man, by showing compassion for his injuries, yet being wary of his mental state when he tried to explain who/what he was.
As well as the two main protagonists, you are also introduced to a plethora of secondary characters including a delightful pixyish Irish lass called Emerald, who in addition to her other-worldly connections of receiving messages from the Druids, is a sex-therapist who councils her patients via a `blackberry'. This is an exciting introduction to the series, and St. Giles sets the stage in whetting your appetite for future installments that are eagerly anticipated.
Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization
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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
EXCELLENT, KEEPS YOU INTERESTED WITH EACH PAGE, September 5, 2006
This review is from: Touch a Dark Wolf (The Shadowmen, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
What do you do after you find out that the Doctor you thought had the cure for cancer is a murder?
What do you do when you are on the run afraid for your life and two creatures crash onto the hood of your car and begin fighting?
what do you do when you wake up from running your car into a ditch to find a naked man on the hood of your car?
Don't know? Well that is the way Erin Morgan started her day today. And the naked man well he's a Shadowmen. A warrior shape shifter, sworn to protect mortals like Erin. And he's just been infected with a poison that could very well turn him into the very thing that he has for century's been fighting to protect people like Erin from.
This book hits the ground running. So unlike Erin who has her hands full. The hardest problem you will have is putting this book down........
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Touch a Dark Wolf, February 25, 2007
This review is from: Touch a Dark Wolf (The Shadowmen, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
Not as bad as some reviewers said, but I admit it does need some work. The book begins when the herione is run off the road when two wolves have it out on the hood of her car. I know, it sounds interesting, but the author mucks it up at this point. I suppose St. Giles is attempting to give her novel an epic touch by switching scenes from villian to hero to watchers. She moves from one point of view to another. A master writer can do this successfully, but St. Giles only ends up confusing the reader. I read through about six chapters before I felt I had a vague understanding to what was going on. She should have stuck with one point of view and let the reader discover what was going on along with that character. If it wouldn't have been for this confusing point of view stratagy she adapted, I think it would have been a good book. Or at least much more enjoyable.
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