Hunting Human (Prime Legacy, #1)
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For two years, Beth Williams has run from the past, and the beast that dwells inside her. She is haunted by memories of being kidnapped and the savage attack that killed her best friend. Now Beth finally thinks she's ready to move on...with Braden Edwards, a charming, irresistibly sexy man who tempts Beth to embrace the present.

But the past lurks closer than Beth realizes....more
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Published March 28th 2011 by Carina Press
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Steph
Hunting Human is at times your typical "werewolf meets human he can't resist" story and others an emotionally intense story about a girl who lost her closest friend (sister from another mother) in a brutal attack.

We are introduced to Beth (Elizabeth; Lizzy) and Rachel through Beth's flashbacks of their trip through Europe. Liz being the responsible one of the two. As usual, she watched over Rachel while she partied a bit too hard at a local bar. While there, they attracted the wrong kind of att...more
Laurie (Bitten by Paranormal Romance)
Hunting Human is a very compelling emotional read. Be warned this book can be brutal. I truly enjoyed this book I couldn’t put it down even though I found the story with a back in fourth relationship between the hero and heroine and the heroine Beth at times very shellfish. I just had to keep reading about this human lady being put in a brutal situation with a pack of wolves. Then after she meets Braden Beth is put in another dangerous situation that could cost her and hero Braden’s relationship...more
Carmel (Rabid Reads)
Reviewed by Rabid Reads

A great, well-rounded werewolf book full of non-stop action with a few surprising plot twists that'll keep you guessing. The characters are engaging and they each have their own unique traits that'll leave you feeling like you want to be their best friend. The side-characters are equally just as lovable and the bad guy in this novel is particularly dark and warped. For me, the only thing missing was more werewolf action but I'm hard to satisfy on that front so I won't hold...more
Heather Book Savvy Babe
Hunting Human was a very good werewolf book. In this book, Beth is trying to make a life for herself after a vicious attack left her scarred physically and emotionally, and her life forever changed. Beth winds up in Portland, working at a coffee house, and thinking about actually settling down for a change. When she meets Braden she is at first unsure, but happy. Suddenly, Beth’s violent past catches up to her, and she has to come to terms with the monsters of both her past and present, and deci...more
Fiendishly Bookish
3.95 Stars.

Witness to her friend’s murder after being hunted down in the woods like prey, Hunting Human gives new meaning to The Most Dangerous Game in this sexy romance by Amanda Alvarez. Upon her return from Eastern Europe, shell-shocked and on the run, Elizabeth Williams tries to evade the predator on her tail after that horrifying night in the woods. Markko Bolvek is after revenge for Beth killing his brother-he wants her blood and he plans on making her suffer…painfully.


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Amanda
Book: Hunting Human
Author: Amanda Alvarez
Publisher: Carina Press
Received: NetGalley

I really enjoyed this book! It is a story about a girl who must learn to overcome her past to embrace her future. While on vacation with a close friend, they are abducted and forced to flee for their lives. While she makes it out, her friend isn't so lucky. She is forever changed and has a hard time dealing with the events so much that she never fully allows herself to get comfortable in one place. Until she meets...more
KatiD
I picked up Hunting Human by Amanda E. Alvarez because Holly at Book Binge had mentioned that she'd read it and liked it, and that the story had lingered with her. She's right. It's an interesting story, one I had my issues with, but overall packed a decent emotional punch.

Elizabeth Williams is on the run. She has been for two years, since a nightmarish night in Estonia turned her world upside down. While on the typical post-college backpacking in Europe trip, she and her best friend, Rachel, ar...more
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Liz and her best friend, Rachel, are vacationing in Europe and they are having a night out on the town going from bar to bar. Rachel has had a little too much to drink and Liz decides it’s time to go home. As she approaches Rachel to leave, a strange man gets in her way. Liz holds her ground and gets Rachel out of there and they start walking to the hostel where they’re staying. But before they get there the man from the bar and a couple of his budd...more
B.K. Walker
What can I say? I was enthralled with this title. Hunting Human is a must read for anyone that loves a good paranormal romance! The cover is gorgeous too!

Beth Williams leads a life of keeping to herself. She is working for Angie and loves the commotion that always arises when she is at the Cafe'. When Braden Edwards walks into her life, she isn't prepared for the whirlwind of events that are about to take place.

Beth finds herself forced to relive the death of her best friend, and becoming a were...more
Book Binge Blog
Two years ago, Beth and a friend were kidnapped. She was unwillingly turned into a shifter. Since then she's been on the run from the man who took her, and from her new animal half. She's finally relaxing enough to settle into Seattle when she meets Braden. He seems like a nice enough guy, so she agrees to have dinner with him when he asks, despite being wary of it. But when her kidnapper comes unexpectedly catches up with her, she realizes there's more to Braden than meets the eye..and she want...more
Darcy
I had a couple of friends recommend this book to me, so I thought I better check it out and I ended up being glad that I did.

I liked Beth, you knew she was running from something bad, she was so skittish you wanted to know what it was. I liked how Braden didn't come on strong with Beth, she wouldn't have responded well to that. Their romance at the start had me smiling with how sweet it was.

I also really liked Braden's family. They were fun and I loved how they didn't have very many boundaries a...more
Among The Muses
How could I not get sucked into a story with paranormal romance, nice shifter hotties -- and not-so-nice shifter hotties, action and suspense, and humor to boot? I really enjoyed this book and felt it was a great spin on Werewolf PNR that's not all mushy romance all the time. Hunting Human brings together romance and edginess from a different perspective: not all wolves play nice. However, most do, and it takes a special someone and his family to demonstrate what being part of a wolf family trul...more
Romancing the Book
Reviewer: Beth
Publisher: Carina Press
Review copy provided by author

Blurb: For two years, Beth Williams has run from the past, and the beast that dwells inside her. She is haunted by memories of being kidnapped and the savage attack that killed her best friend. Now Beth finally thinks she's ready to move on...with Braden Edwards, a charming, irresistibly sexy man who tempts Beth to embrace the present.
But the past lurks closer than Beth realizes. Markko Bolvek, one of the werewolves who kidnapped...more
Meg Kinch
This isn't a typical shifter book. It is a paranormal, but I would categorize it more as horror paranormal. The book was at times brutal and very graphic. It had a great depth of emotion and kept me hooked throughout. The only thing about the book, well two things, that I didn't care for were Beth's selfishness and saying yes one minute and then pulling back the next. I really felt for Braden when she continued to do this. The other instance is Chase, the hero's adoptive brother. His attitude ca...more
Beverly
My thoughts:
Fantastic story! I fell fast and didn't put it down until it was over! I love the fresh new take on the whole werewolf idea! If this first book is any indication of how great future books will be I can't wait!
Incredible characters! Each of the characters has been well thought-out and lovingly designed. It was easy to become completely engrossed in the lives on the page. I was fully invested by the time I had turned the page a couple times. If you are into shifters - this book is for...more
Christine Bell
To be honest, I thought Amanda Alvarez lost me for good on page #2 with the line "Bad American 80's music blared from the speakers..."
*gasp* It was like a stake through my black heart. My unholy love for all things 80's reared its head and I was *this close* to sending her a strongly worded missive (comprised of poorly cut out letters from magazine articles) expressing my shock and horror along with a mix tape of the best songs of the 80's (including, but not limited to Corey Hart, Duran Duran,...more
Lisa Richards
A really good shifter book is hard to lay your hands on and I’ve got to admit, it’s been awhile since I’ve read one. Except for one thing, I would have given this book a 5 star rating. I felt like the author did not follow through on the ending. Mostly, I felt like Braden was more intelligent than Alvarez gave him credit for. I know there needed to be a dramatic ending but that’s all it was, a dramatic ending that just felt rushed and a bit out of character.

Now, what I loved about the story, ev...more
Judy & Marianne from Long and Short Reviews
It takes a pretty special shifter book to hold my attention in a market that’s been glutted with shifter books. This one did ... to the point that I thought about it when I wasn’t reading it, and wanted to be reading instead of doing pretty much anything else.

That’s not to say the book was perfect, it wasn’t. But it was pretty darn close.

We start with a strong, independent heroine who’s clearly a nurturer and protector – in the beginning, she’s taking care of her less strong best friend in a si...more
Kristen
GENRE: Adult, Paranormal Romance
BOOK THEME: Werewolves
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QUICK THOUGHTS:
A young woman and her friend are kidnapped one night in Europe by two men both dangerous and not human, only one survives. Beth is trying to restart her life but her past forever haunts her, until she finds a man who tries to help her live again. Great paranormal romance with the usual werewolf backstory but has a high emotional storyline that makes you really...more
Jen (Red Hot Books)
It’s always such a pleasure to come across an unexpected gem. From the summary blurb of Hunting Human, I figured it might be entertaining, but from the very beginning, it exceeded my expectations.

A few years ago, Beth and her best friend Rachel were kidnapped by werewolves during their backpacking trip across Europe. Rachel didn’t survive the ordeal. Beth did, but she emerged as something very different. And it’s more than the fact she was turned into the very thing that attacked her; the trauma...more
Jennifer | Nerdhuffing
Hunting Human starts out great. Two girls in some dive bar in (what I think was) Eastern Europe on a backpacking adventure. Amanda Alvarez writes a great introduction with lots of skin-prickling and eerie feelings. Fast-forward a couple of years later and you have Beth trying to make her way in Portland and "get over" the events, while working in a small coffee shop. Guy meets girl, guy dates girl, lots of ra ra and then some bow chicka wah wah.
I was really excited to get this novel. It's one o...more
Greta is Erikasbuddy
3.5 Stars

This was a very decent wolf book (and we all know how picky I am with my wolves)

The descriptions of the transformations/shifting were very interesting and the details were fab. I loved how the author explained things when the humans changed into wolves.

I did think that they're minds should have gone all canine instead of retaining their human ones... but that's just me. It was still very nice.

The only problem I had with this book was the romance part. It seemed a bit rushed.

Basically it...more
Paranormal Haven
Beth Williams is haunted by the memories of the night she and her best friend were attacked by beasts, only to be the only one to survive. Beth has finally found a place she feels secure and thinks maybe life will settle down some for her until she meets Braden Edwards, who charms her with his sexy smile into falling for him.

Then like always the past catches up with her, Markko Bolvek finds her. He wants revenge for his brother Beth killed when she escaped them. Then to make all matters worse s...more
Debbie (at) I Heart YA Books
Hunting Human had me hooked by the first chapter. I couldn't put this book down. The story definitely pulls you in. Beth is troubled but strong, independent young woman trying to get her life back together after her friend Rachel gets killed by the Bolveks’ brothers. Beth escapes the Bolveks, but not without her life changing forever. She never stays in one place too long. She ends up in Portland, where she meets Braden Edwards, a handsome, strong , and charming werewolf who won't take no for an...more
Norma
Hunting Human by Amanda Alvarez is a richly detailed paranormal romance story.

Beth Williams is haunted by her past. Braden is a man with a deep dark secret. Can they look beyond their suspicious natures to find love with one another?

The author really created characters that you either like or hate. The characters don’t seem flat at all. You also feel as if you are there with them, watching them go through their struggles.

One word of warning though, the violence and sex are pretty graphic. So if...more
Mandy
Beth Williams is haunted by memories and running from a past that she neither understands nor which she can classify as rational or sane. Once a promising young architect with a position to begin graduate work, a celebratory trip to Europe and the resulting death of her best friend and foster sister, Beth now moves about from place to place. Finally, having found a place as a barista and staying in the same city for longer than usual, a charming man walks into her solitary life and her carefully...more
Kelly
This book packed a surprising wallop. Beth's emotional journey as she deals with the aftermath of the brutal attack that left her a werewolf and killed her best friend is hard and sometimes ugly. She's walled herself off from the world around her as she tries to come to grips with what she is. Her attraction to Braden, which she fights with everything inside her, begins to thaw her out some but she has a hard time trusting anybody but herself.

While there was a strong focus on Braden and Beth's b...more
Kelly
Mar 29, 2011 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of paranormal romance/werewolves
Going into this book I was unsure about how I would like it. I had never read a book based on werewolves (books with werewolves in them, sure, but not centering around them) and I really thought it wasn't going to be a book that I'd enjoy. Vampires are sexy (well, most of them) but wolves, I dunno.

Wow, was I wrong! I loved it! I blazed through this book in a day and a half and was almost sad when it was over.

Beth is strong, level headed and independent. She is also emotionally (and physically)...more
Darkfallen
So let me just say YUM! That's what this book was for me...yummy:)

There were parts I devoured. There were parts I savored. In the end I almost always found myself asking for seconds!!

As most of you know I have a thing for my wolfy's, I never imagined I would, but I do. You also may note that I have a thing for most things paranormal, but that's a story for another day;) Point in case: This book only aids to my love affair with these beautiful weres.

Beth, a.k.a. Liz, has a terrible past. One that...more
Mandi Schreiner
Beth has been on the run ever since she was on vacation with her best friend in Europe and was attacked by the werewolf, Markko Bolveks. Her friend didn’t make it, and Beth has not felt safe in any city she has chosen. Having once gone to college with high hopes to be an architect, that is all history after the attack. For the past few months she has been working in Portland at a local coffee shop. She has finally found real girlfriends, and although still on edge, she can take a deep breath and...more
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Amanda was born and raised in Texas - and due to an unfortunate three year stint in Michigan - doesn't plan to ever live anywhere where flip-flops and sweatshirts don't constitute winter attire. Often audacious and adventurous, she tends to find herself in a slew of dangerous (and hilarious!) predicaments (law school and fighting raccoons in dumpsters) and thankfully has many friends ready to lend...more
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