Title: LOUP GAROU
Series: Tempting Fate #1
Author: Mandy M. Roth
Publish Date: 03.08.06
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Category /Genre: Paranormal Romance
Recommended for: 18+ due to sexual content
Received from: Mandy M. Roth (in exchange for an honest review)
Date completed: 11.18.14
Goodreads link: LOUP GAROU
Description from the publisher:
Lindsay Willows craves a simple life, one where
she can make a difference without drawing too much attention to herself. As the
daughter of both a vampire and a fay, the cards were already stacked against
her. Finding out she's the supposed mate of a dark fay prince doesn't help
matters. Especially when there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent
her from mating with a prince she's never even met.
When Exavier Kedmen, the incredibly sexy front
man for a world-famous band, shows up wanting her to go back to a field she
left three years ago, she can't explain the strong feelings that surface for a
man she barely knows.
Lindsay finds herself confronting demons from
her past, coming to terms with the ones in the present and finally looking
forward to a future with the man she was created for. And she discovers evil
doesn't care who it hurts to obtain its goals but even the evilest of things
fear something, or in the case of Exavier, someone.
WARNING: This book contains hot, explicit sex
and violence explained with contemporary, graphic language.
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This is the first book in the
Tempting Fate series. Mandy M. Roth
promises there will be more books, making this a series, but we’ll have to be
patient while she makes them the best releases possible. I hope there will be another one soon.
Three years ago, Lindsay’s life
changed in an accident (incident) that had her walking away from her high glitz
job as choreographer for one of the top musical groups at the time. Now she and her best friends (a were-panther
and a slayer) are protecting a high risk community from the things that go bump
in the night while running a community recreation center. Now Exavier Kedman, lead singer of Loup
Garou, wants her to return to prepare his band for videos and tour. Lindsay is instantly drawn to him, but
refuses to return to a past that only reminds her of pain. Will she find the strength to face her past,
accept her present, and embrace her future? …and will it include Exavier?
Ok, first things first – Loup Garou
is the French phrase for “werewolf” and the name of a band in this story. There is a lot of reference to music, music
videos, and band tours.
Every woman has that one song that
will turn her into an exotic dancer, right?
Lindsay plays her favorites and teaches exotic dance as a form of
exercise at her rec center. What’s funny
is, she doesn’t even know the name of the band playing. She is one of those people (like me) who can
rarely match up the band with the song.
I wish her rec center were close to me!
I would be first to sign up for her classes!!
I wanted to love this story. I do love the story, but there are a few
escaping plot bunnies that should have been corralled. If someone is your best friend for five years
in person and another three years as a pen pal, how do you not know them when
they turn up again, even if it is twenty years later? Especially when you are immediately drawn to
him and he still has the same name! If
she were that dim-witted, she never should have survived all the creepy
ghoulies out to get her. There was also
a lot of talking about the supernatural as if it was a given that Exavier knew
about it all and then claiming that we need to not scare the human, and then
more talking about the supernatural. It
became frustrating to keep up with does he KNOW or not?
Lastly, there were some editing
errors that should have been cleaned up by now. I hate when a sentence makes me stop, go
back, and read it again to get what was supposed to have been said. That’s the bad.
The good FAR outweighs the bad. The story is wonderful. I love Lindsay, Exavier, Myra, Gina, Jay,
Eion,….. Oh hell, I loved all of the characters, even the baddies. Mandy Roth writes dialogue better than most. The banter is free-flowing, and just as biting
as only true friends can be with each other.
The scene descriptions were complete and compelling, without being so
drawn out that you were bored. The
storyline was unique, part funny, part serious, part lascivious – just like
life!
Grammar/editing: A – near perfect
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