
R L. (
Teach) wrote on 7/17/2007...
9 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a tightly woven, fast paced story with unusual twists and turns. Move over Kenyon, more beasts are on the prowl. The wait for the rest of the series will be painful.
Ann Smith loves her handsome, dynamic boss, Jasha Wilder, but her daring plan to seduce him goes awry when she encounters a powerful wolf who-before her horrified eyes-changes into the man she adores. She soon discovers she can't escape her destiny, for she is the woman fated to break the curse that binds his soul.
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wow, Ms. Dodd has quite a nack for the paranormal romance. Interesting start to this series. A deal struck w/the devil over 1000 years ago has a family trying to break the curse. This is Jasha (the oldest son) and Ann's story. There is a great story with terrific characters. These 2 people have worked together & she has loved him from the beginning but they both have secrets (he can turn into a wolf & she has a tattoo that comes to life & brings evil to her). Also a great love story. Looking forward to the next book with Jasha's brother Rurik.

Patricia A D. (
trishad37) wrote on 8/2/2007...
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
To me the mark of a good book in a series is if you want to read the next one - I do! A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior roamed the Russian steppes and struck a sinister bargain. In return for the ability to change at will into a coldhearted predator, Konstantine promised his soul - and the souls of his descendants - to the devil. In the first of the series Jasha Wilder and Ann Smith confront the results of that pact in modern day America.

Denise A. (
izzybru) wrote on 9/10/2007...
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was really a good book from start to finish, the characters were a great combo with awesome chemistry. Very hot, from the first few chapters in.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
This series was so good I read all four books in 4 days. I'd finish one and immediately pick up the next in line. The heroes were interesting and complex and sometimes bad beyond belief, but you still couldn't help rooting for them. The heroines were likeable. The mythology was rich, a nice twist on the same old shapeshifter story. The Chicago Tribune called this series "devilishly clever" and I couldn't agree more.

Jeanna A. (
jeanna) wrote on 10/24/2007...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
I was reluctant to try this one, thought it might be just another vampire type story, but I should have known that this author would do better. A little out of the norm, but I'll probably read the next in this series just to see how she allows the characters to overcome evil.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Overall I was disappointed. I had heard great things about theis series and I found it tedious and forgetable. Ms. Dodd really drug out some parts that could have been expedited. I am in no hurry to get to book #2 "Touch of Darkness".
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was a good book. I enjoyed it for the most part. I do feel like I never completely got to know the 2 main characters. I also feel like it ended very odd. I know that with series' you are left wanting more so you read further into the series, but I feel like she didn't complete THIS book. That THIS set of characters needed a little more, even if just another chapter, as we were left with them feeling really out of sorts a bit with each other.
I will definitely continue to read the series, I just hope she develops the characters and works on the endings a little more in the next book.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Interesting storyline with likable characters. Worth the read.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
An excellant book. I've been searching for different books by authors I've never read before. And its very hard for me to find an author that writes good and has interesting books. And I have. Man, Christina Dodd is right up there with Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kresley Cole, and my favorite the author of the Carpathian men. Christine Feehan.
Her love scenes are dark and erotic, sometimes rough in the beginning of this story. And her use of words, the imagery she uses, makes you feel as if you were Ann. And the second book is just as good, and I am anxiously awaiting the third one.